Acts 22:19

I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you in every synagogue.

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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

18I saw him say to me, 'Hurry and leave Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

20When the blood of Stephen your witness was spilled, I also was standing by and agreeing, and I was guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

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Cross References

Matthew 10:17Watch out for people! They will deliver you up to councils, and they will whip you in their synagogues.

Acts 9:1But Saul, still speaking threats even of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 26:9Now indeed, I myself thought that I should do many things against 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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