“But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?”
All those who heard him were astounded and asked, 'Is not he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And has he not come here to arrest them and take them to the chief priests?'—the astonishment (existanto) reflects the radical discontinuity of conversion; only supernatural power explains such reversal. The crowds' rhetorical questions serve to validate the tradition: everyone knows who Saul was, making his transformation all the more attestative of the risen Jesus's power.
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