Acts 22:17

After my return to Jerusalem, I was praying in the Temple when I fell into a trance,

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And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;

In Context

16And now why wait any longer, Be baptized at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his name.’

18and saw Jesus saying to me ‘Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

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Cross References

Acts 9:26On his arrival in Jerusalem, Saul attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, as they did not believe that he was really a disciple.

Acts 26:20on the contrary, first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and then through the whole of Judea, and to the Gentiles as well, I began to preach repentance and conversion to God, and a life befitting that repentance.

Galatians 1:18Three years afterward I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Peter, and I stayed a fortnight with him.

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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