Acts 22:19

And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and binding those believing on thee throughout the synagogue;

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 I saw Him speaking to me, Hasten, and depart quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

20and when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of those killing him.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:17Beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and will beat you in their synagogues;

Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, having come to the high priest,

Acts 26:9Moreover indeed, I thought to myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene:

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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