Acts 22:5

as also the chief priest testifies to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters to the brothers, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,

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In The King James Version

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 Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

In Context

4And this Way I persecuted to death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

6and it came to pass, in my going on and coming near to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of Heaven there shone a great light around me;

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Cross References

Acts 4:5And it came to pass the next day, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,

Acts 9:1And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the LORD, having gone to the chief priest,

Acts 13:26Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,

Acts 26:10which I also did in Jerusalem, and I shut up many of the holy ones in prison, having received the authority from the chief priests; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,

Acts 28:21And they said to him, “We neither received letters concerning you from Judea, nor did anyone who came of the brothers declare or speak any evil concerning you,

1 Timothy 4:14do not be careless of the gift in you, that was given you through prophecy, with 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 →

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