Acts 22:5
as the high priest and all the elders can bear witness. I received letters from them for the brothers in Damascus, and went there to bring them back in bonds to Jerusalem in order for them to be punished.
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4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding up and delivering them to prison both men and women,
Cross References
Acts 4:5It came about on the next day that their rulers, elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem.
Acts 9:1But Saul, still speaking threats even of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 13:26Brothers, children of the line of Abraham, and those among you who worship God, it is to us that the message about this salvation has been sent.
Acts 26:10I did these in Jerusalem. I locked up many of the saints in prison by the authority I received from the chief priests, and when they were killed, I cast my vote against them.
Acts 28:21Then they said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea about you, nor did any of the brothers come and report or say anything bad about you.
1 Timothy 4:14Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
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 →