Acts 26:9-11. Paul has just begun testifying before King Agrippa, the king of the Jews. He has introduced himself as a lifelong faithful Jew, and he now goes on to say that, as a Pharisee himself, he was convinced that he had to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. He had imprisoned many of Jesus' believers under the authority of the chief priests, and he cast his votes to have them put to death. He punished them in the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme. In "raging fury against them", he even persecuted them in foreign cities.

The picture Paul paints of himself here is one very similar to the chief priests who are now seeking Paul's life. Paul describes himself as being in a "raging fury" against Christ's followers, seeking to have them imprisoned, to get them to blaspheme, and even to kill them. This is not the same Paul that we have come to know and love. That is because this is the pre-Christian Paul. Paul's current attitude of calm acceptance and reasonable discourse even when imprisoned and treated unjustly shos he now has the peace of a true Christian. 

The chief priest and elders are currently in a raging fury against Paul because they will not allow themselves to accept Christ as the Messiah. In other words, they are unwilling to hear and accept the Truth. Another indication of being unwilling to accept the truth is trying to make an enemy blaspheme against God (communists, for example, are known for doing this). It can break people, but it cannot break the Truth. Christ has always existed and will always exist no matter how many people one is able to convince to deny Him. Forced blasphemy is another sign that the ideology being imposed has a religious aspect. Why would you need to make someone speak out against the God she believes in unless her God threatens your god? And if your god can be threatened by someone else's God, then your god is not much of a god.

Christ is not threatened by other gods - He only wants people to give up their idols for their own good. If they refuse, His advice to us is to shake the dust from our sandals, not to stay and force others to blaspheme. Christ's message is always one of love, never of raging fury.