What is the meaning of Acts 26:11?

* The two F.O.G. Bibles & Commentary below are currently a work in progress.

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

World English Bible (WEB)

And{G2532} I punished{G5097}{(G5723)} them{G846} oft{G4178} in{G2596} every{G3956} synagogue{G4864}, and compelled{G315}{(G5707)} them to blaspheme{G987}{(G5721)}; and{G5037} being{G1693} exceedingly{G4057} mad against{G1693}{(G5740)} them{G846}, I persecuted{G1377}{(G5707)} them even{G2532} unto{G1519}{G2193} strange{G1854} cities{G4172}.

Strong's King James

(11) I punished them often in all the synagogues, pressuring them to slanderously-blaspheme and furiously raged at them and pursued them as far as the outlying cities.

The F.O.G*

[11] Many times I went from synagogue to synagogue to have them punished, trying to force them to blaspheme. In my obsessed fury, I even hunted them down in foreign cities.

The F.O.G Paraphrase

and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities.

Young's Literal Translation