Acts 22:16
And now, why do you delay? Rise up, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, by invoking his name.’
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15For you shall be his witness to all men about those things which you have seen and heard.
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:14“Why are we sitting still? Assemble, and let us enter the fortified city, and let us remain silent there. For the Lord our God has brought us to silence, and he has given us the water of gall as a drink. For we have sinned against the Lord.
Acts 2:38Yet truly, Peter said to them: “Do penance; and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 9:18And immediately, it was as if scales had fallen from his eyes, and he received his sight. And rising up, he was baptized.
Romans 10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is over all, richly in all who call upon him.
1 Corinthians 6:11And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Galatians 3:27For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have become clothed with Christ.
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 →