Acts 22:19

And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I threw into prison, and scourged, in every synagogue, those who believed on thee;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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 saw him saying to me, Make haste, and depart quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony concerning me.

20and that when the blood of Stephen, thy witness, was shed, I also stood by and approved, and kept the clothing of those who slew him.

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Cross References

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

Acts 9:1And Saul, still breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest,

Acts 26:9I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things against 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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