Acts 22:5
as also the high priest and all the council of elders can bear me witness. I even obtained letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, to bring those also who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.
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4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Cross References
Acts 4:5So the next day an assembly of their rulers, both elders and scribes, occurred in Jerusalem,
Acts 9:1Meanwhile Saul, still exhaling murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 13:26“Men, brothers, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God: to you the word of this salvation has been sent.
Acts 26:10I actually did this in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
Acts 28:21So they said to him: “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came reported or spoken any 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 body of elders.
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 →