Acts 22:19

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

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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

18and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’

20When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

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Cross References

Matthew 10:17But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 26:9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Yeshua 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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