Acts 22:19

And I said: Lord, they well know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believe on thee;

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 forth quickly out of Jerusalem; for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

20and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, then I myself was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of those who slew him.

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Cross References

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

Acts 9:1BUT Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

Acts 26:9I therefore thought to myself, that I ought to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

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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