Acts 22:16
And now why tarriest thou? Rise up, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, invoking his name.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15For thou shalt be his witness to all men, of those things which thou hast seen and heard.
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.
Acts 2:38But Peter said to them: Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 9:18And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and rising up, he was baptized.
Romans 10:12For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him.
1 Corinthians 6:11And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.
Galatians 3:27For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on 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 →