Acts 22:21

Then He said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’ ” 1 Paul's Roman Citizenship

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.

In Context

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.’

22Now they were listening to him until this statement, and they lifted their voice saying, “Take away such a man from the earth, for it is not fitting for him to live!”

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Cross References

Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel to Me to bear My name before Gentiles and kings, and the sons of Israel.

Acts 13:46But Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly said, “It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken to you first; but since you thrust it away, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life; behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Acts 26:17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

Romans 11:13For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Galatians 2:7but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter was with the gospel for the circumcised,

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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