Acts 22:4

And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prison both men and women,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

In Context

3I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, yet educated in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed according to the strict discipline of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as you all are this day.

5as the chief priest and the whole body of elders will testify for me. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring those, also, who were there, bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

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Cross References

Acts 7:58and drove him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

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

Acts 9:21And all that heard him were astonished, and said: Is not this he who destroyed in Jerusalem those that call on this name, and who has come hither for this purpose, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?

Acts 18:26And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him, and taught him the way of God more accurately.

Acts 19:23And at that time there was no little excitement about that way.

Acts 24:14But this I confess to you, that after the way which they call sect, so do I worship the God of my fathers; believing all things that are written in the law and in the prophets;

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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