Acts 26:12

While I was engaged in these things, and was going to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

In Context

11And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to speak impiously; and, being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

13at midday, while I was on the road, I saw, O King, a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those who journeyed with me.

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Cross References

John 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders, that, if any one knew where he was, he should inform them, that they might take him.

Acts 22:5as 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.

Matthew Henry on Acts 26:2-12

Paul's Fifth Defence. 1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: 2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: 3 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. 4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among… Read the whole commentary →

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