Acts 26:10

"And this. also did in Jerusalem: and. both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death. gave my vote against them"And this. also did" Paul had put his convictions into action. "Shut up many of the saints in prisons" (Acts 8:3). "Having received authority from the chief priests" "He took the lead in the campaign to uproot this subversive heresy, as he thought it" (Bruce p. 490), indicating that he was the official "strongman" or persecutor for the Sanhedrin. "When they were put to death" He is suggesting that other Christians besides Stephen died during the persecution mentioned in Acts 8:1; Acts 9:1. "I gave my vote against them" Paul had been so convinced in his own mind that Christians were in the wrong that he believed they deserved death for what they taught and practiced. "Some suppose that Paul here refers to casting his vote as. member of the Sanhedrin; in which case he must have been married and the father of. family. But there is no reason for believing such (compare 1 Corinthians 7:7); and the phrase may be taken as expressing merely moral assent and approval" (Vincent p. 588).