Acts 22:5
As the high priest and the council of the elders can also verify, I received from them letters of authorization addressed to the Jewish brothers in Damascus, and went there to arrest these people and bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
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Acts 4:5The next day, the rulers, elders, and religious leaders met together in Jerusalem.
Acts 9:1But meanwhile Saul was making violent threats against the disciples of the Lord, wanting to kill them. He went to the high priest
Acts 13:26My brothers, children of Abraham and those of you who have reverence for God: the message of this salvation has been sent to us!
Acts 26:10This is what I did in Jerusalem. I threw many of the believers in prison, having been given authority to do this by the chief priests. When they were sentenced to death I cast my vote against them.
Acts 28:21“We have not received any letters from Judea about you, and none of our people have come here with reports against you or to speak badly of you,” they told him.
1 Timothy 4:14Don't neglect the gracious gift you have that was given to you by prophetic inspiration when the church elders laid their hands on you.
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 →