Acts 22:5
as also the high priest testifies of me, along with the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus in order to bring those who were there, having been bound, to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.
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In Context
4I, who persecuted this Way to the death, binding and handing over to prisons both men and women,
Cross References
Acts 4:5Now it came to pass on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,
Acts 9:1Then Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 13:26“Men, brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the message of this salvation has been sent.
Acts 26:10which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were being put to death, I cast my vote against them.
Acts 28:21Then they said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who arrived report or speak anything evil about you.
1 Timothy 4:14Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.
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 →