Acts 22:5
as the chefe prest doth beare me witnes and all the elders: of whom also I receaved letters vnto the brethren and wet to Damasco to bringe them which were there bounde vnto Ierusalem for to be punysshed.
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4and I persecuted this waye vnto the deeth byndynge and delyveringe into preson bothe men and wemen
Cross References
Acts 4:5And it chaunsed on the morowe that their rulars and elders and Scribes
Acts 9:1And Saul yet brethynge oute threatnynges and slaughter agaynst the disciples of the lorde went vnto the hye preste
Acts 13:26Ye men and brethren chyldren of the generacion of Abraham and whosoever amonge you feareth God to you is this worde of salvacion sent.
Acts 26:10which thinge I also dyd in Ierusalem. Where many of the sainctes I shut vp in preson and had receaved auctorite of the hye prestes. And when they were put to deeth I gave the sentence.
Acts 28:21And they sayde vnto him: We nether receaved letters out of Iewry pertayninge vnto the nether came eny of the brethren that shewed or spake eny harme of the.
1 Timothy 4:14Despyse not the gyfte that is in ye which was geven the thorow prophesye and with layinge on of the hondes of an elder.
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 →