Acts 9:1

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

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And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

In Context

2and asked him for letters for the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Psalms 27:12Do not give me up to the desires of my enemies, 1 for false witnesses have risen up against me, 1 and they breathe out violence! 1

Acts 8:3But Saul greatly harmed the church; he went into house after house and dragged out men and women, and put them into prison.

Acts 22:3“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel. I was instructed according to the strict ways of the law of our fathers. I am zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the apostles. I am unworthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God.

Philippians 3:6As for zeal, I persecuted the church; as for righteousness under the law, I was blameless.

Matthew Henry on Acts 9:1

In this chapter we have, I. The famous story of St. Paul's conversion from being an outrageous persecutor of the gospel of Christ to be an illustrious professor and preacher of it. 1. How he was first awakened and wrought upon by an appearance of Christ himself to him as he was going upon an errand of persecution to Damascus: and what a condition he was in while he lay under the power of those convictions and terrors, ver. 1-9 . 2. How he was baptized by Ananias, by immediate directions from heaven, ver. 10-19 .… Read the whole commentary →

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