Acts 9:1

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

In Context

2besought of him letters for the synagogues at Damascus, that if he should find any persons of this way, whether men or women, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Acts 8:3But Saul ravaged the church, entering into the houses, and dragging men and women, cast them into prison.

Acts 22:3I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed accurately in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day:

1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the apostles, who am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Philippians 3:6respecting the law, a Pharisee; with regard to zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is by the law, blameless.

Matthew Henry on Acts 9:1

In this chapter we have, I. The famous story of St. Paul's conversion from being an outrageous persecutor of the gospel of Christ to be an illustrious professor and preacher of it. 1. How he was first awakened and wrought upon by an appearance of Christ himself to him as he was going upon an errand of persecution to Damascus: and what a condition he was in while he lay under the power of those convictions and terrors, ver. 1-9 . 2. How he was baptized by Ananias, by immediate directions from heaven, ver. 10-19 .… Read the whole commentary →

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