Acts 22:5

as the high priest also, and all the eldership, witnessed me: from whom having also received letters from the brethren in Damascus, I was on my way, being about to lead them also hither into Jerusalem bound, that they might be punished.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

4who after this way persecuted unto death, binding and committing to prison both men and women;

6And it came to pass, while I was journeying, and nigh unto Damascus, a great light, about midday, suddenly shone from heaven around me;

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Cross References

Acts 4:5And it came to pass on the morrow, the rulers and elders and scribes

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

Acts 13:26Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, unto us the word of this salvation was sent.

Acts 26:10which I did also in Jerusalem, and shut up many of the saints in prison; and having received authority from the chief priests, and they being slain, I gave my vote against them;

Acts 28:21And they said to him, Neither have we received letters from Judea concerning you, neither has any one of the brethren coming, proclaimed or spoken anything evil concerning you.

1 Timothy 4:14Do not neglect the gift which is in you, which was given unto you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands 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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