Acts 9:2

2and he asked for letters [of authority] from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there belonging to 9:2 This term for Christianity may have originated from Jesus’ own words, “I am the Way…,” John 14:6.the Way [believers, followers of Jesus the Messiah], men and women alike, he could arrest them and bring them bound [with chains] to Jerusalem.