Acts 22:5

as the chief of the priests can testify of me, and all the elders, that from them I received letters to go to the brethren who were in Darmsuk, that also them who were there I should bring to Urishlem bound, that they might be fined.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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 Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

In Context

4And this way I persecuted unto the death, while I bound and delivered to the house of the bound both men and women;

6And as I went, and began to approach Darmsuk in the dividing of the day, suddenly from heaven there shone upon me a great light,

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Cross References

Acts 4:5And the day after, the rulers, and elders, and sophree, assembled,

Acts 9:1BUT Shaol was yet full of threatenings and murderous wrath against the disciples of our Lord.

Acts 13:26MEN, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and they among you who fear Aloha, unto you is sent the word of life.

Acts 26:10This I also did in Urishlem. And many holy ones I cast into the house of the bound, by the authority which I had received from the great priests; and when they were killed by them, I participated with those who condemned them.

Acts 28:21They said to him, We have not received letters concerning thee from Jihud, and none of the brethren who have come from Urishlem have spoken any thing evil of thee.

1 Timothy 4:14Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee with prophecy, and the hand-laying of the presbytery.

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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