Charles Spurgeon Commentary Acts 9:1

"But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest," — Acts 9:1 (ASV)

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

Notice that little word "yet." Saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord; but there was to be a point beyond which he could not go. I pray God that there may be such a "yet" as that put into the histories of any here who are opposing God and his Christ. Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter, – as if they were his very breath, as if he only lived to blaspheme the name of Christ, and to persecute his followers, – went to the high priest,.