Acts 22:5
As also the high priest testifies about me, and all the senior council, from whom also having received letters to the brothers in Damascus, I was going to bring bound even those who were there to Jerusalem so that they might be pun
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4And I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Cross References
Acts 4:5And it came to pass on the morrow, to be assembled in Jerusalem, their rulers, and elders, and scholars,
Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing threat and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, after going to the high priest,
Acts 13:26Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation was sent.
Acts 26:10which also I did at Jerusalem. And I locked up many of the sanctified in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were killed, I gave a vote against them.
Acts 28:21And they said to him, We neither received letters from Judea about thee, nor did any of the brothers who came report or speak anything bad about thee.
1 Timothy 4:14Do not neglect the gift in thee, which was given thee by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.
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 →