Acts 22:19

So I said: ‘Lord, they know that I used to imprison and beat those believing into you, from one synagogue to another;

Family 35 New Testament

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 up and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.’

20and when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing there and agreeing to his murder, even guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’

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Cross References

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

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

Acts 26:9“However, I myself thought that I had to perpetrate many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Natsorean;

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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