Acts 22:19

And I said, ‘Lord, they know that in every synagogue I was imprisoning and beating those believing on You.

English Majority Text (NT)

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, ‘Hurry and go out quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your witness about Me.’

20And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing by consenting to his murder, and guarding the clothes of those murdering him.’

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Cross References

Matthew 10:17But beware of men, for they will hand you over to councils and they will flog you in their synagogues.

Acts 9:1Then Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 26:9“Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary 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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