Acts 22:19

And *I* said, Lord, they themselves know that *I* was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee;

Darby Translation

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 go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

20and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of them who killed him.

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Cross References

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

Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest

Acts 26:9*I* indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.

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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