Acts 22:19

“Lord,” I answered, “these people know that I used to imprison and scourge, in synagogue after synagogue, those who believed in you;

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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 Jesus saying to me “Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.”

20and, when the blood of your martyr, Stephen, was being shed, I was myself standing by, approving of his death, and took charge of the clothes of those who were murdering him.”

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Cross References

Matthew 10:17Be on your guard against others, for they will betray you to courts of law, and scourge you in their synagogues;

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

Acts 26:9I myself, it is true, once thought it my duty to oppose in every way the name of Jesus of Nazareth;

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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