Acts 22:19

And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those who believe in thee.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

In Context

18And I saw him saying to me, Hurry and depart in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept thy testimony about me.

20And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I myself also was standing by, and approving his killing, and keeping the garments of those who killed him.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:17But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues,

Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing threat and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, after going to the high priest,

Acts 26:9Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,

Matthew Henry on Acts 22:4-22

Paul's First Defence. 3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. 4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. 5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to… Read the whole commentary →

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