Blasphemy: The Early Christians, Persecuted by Saul of Tarsus, Compelled to Blaspheme the Name of Jesus

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.