Asked (ηιτησατο). First aorist middle indicative, the indirect middle, asked for himself (as a favour to himself). Felten notes th…

And desired of him. This shows the intensity of his wish to persecute the Christians, that he was willing to ask for such an empl…

And asked him for letters to Damascus.—We learn from 2 Corinthians 11:32–33 that Damascus was at this time under the g…

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters…

The account of Saul’s conversion opens with the picture of him “still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples” (cf. 8:3). Even…

And Luke also describes that Saul was equipped with weapons and power to do harm, for Luke says that Saul had obtained letters from the hi…

And desired of him letters to Damascus
Damascus was the head or metropolis of Syria, (Isaiah 7:8) And so Pliny