But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison. So he is a pretty fervent persecutor of Christians. And it goes even further. So then we read, we go on to read in the book of Acts. Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priests and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.