Acts 22:5
As the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the ancients: from whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, that I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Cross References
Acts 4:5And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes, and ancients, and scribes, were gathered together in Jerusalem;
Acts 9:1And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
Acts 13:26Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God, to you the word of this salvation is sent.
Acts 26:10Which also I did at Jerusalem, and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority of the chief priests: and when they were put to death, I brought the sentence.
Acts 28:21But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, neither did any of the brethren that came hither, relate or speak any evil of thee.
1 Timothy 4:14Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophesy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.
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 →