Charles Spurgeon Commentary Acts 9:1-2

"But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem." — Acts 9:1-2 (ASV)

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

His very breath was hot with malice against the saints; he could not live without venting his spite upon the disciples of Christ. He showed this by the fact that he not only sought to arrest men, but was equally cruel towards women, who, from their weakness, one might have thought would have been left alone, but he expressly desired it to be written in the letters that, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.