Acts 22:19

And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and scourging from synagogue to synagogue those who believe on thee:

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 beheld him saying to me, Make haste, and depart quickly from Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony of me.

20and when the blood of Stephen thy martyr was shed, I myself even stood by, and took delight in his execution, and guarded the garments of those who slew him.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:17But be on your guard against men: for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrim, and scourge you in their synagogues.

Acts 9:1BUT Saul, still breathing out threatenings and murder against the disciples of the Lord, applying to the high-priest,

Acts 26:9I indeed then thought in myself, that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarean.

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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