Acts 22:5
as the high priest can testify about me, along with the whole council of elders. From them I received letters to the brothers in Damascus and then made my way there to make arrests and bring the prisoners back to Jerusalem to be punished.
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4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding both men and women and putting them in prison,
Cross References
Acts 4:5On the next day, the rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,
Acts 9:1Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 13:26“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the message of this salvation has been sent.
Acts 26:10And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. I locked up many of the saints in prison by the authority I received from the chief priests, and when they were being put to death, I cast my vote against them.
Acts 28:21They said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about yoʋ, and none of the brothers who have come here have reported or spoken anything bad about yoʋ.
1 Timothy 4:14Do not neglect the gift that is in yoʋ, which was given to yoʋ through prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on yoʋ.
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 →