Acts 22:5
as also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and travelled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
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4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Cross References
Acts 4:5In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 13:26“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those amongst you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
Acts 26:10I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the holy ones in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
Acts 28:21They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
1 Timothy 4:14Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by 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 →