<p>26:12- see on Acts 22:6.</p><p><i>Thus I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests</i>- These were the very men who were accusing him, and he is now stating that they were involved as accessories to extrajudicial murder and torture. &quot;Thus I journeyed&quot; invites his audience to imagine the rabid thinking which dominated his mind; the psychological change in him could only have been achieved by external agency. And that agency was the spirit of the risen Lord.</p>