Acts 22:19

"‘Lord,’ I replied, ‘they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you,

Montgomery 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

18"I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "‘Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.’

20"‘and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting, and holding the garments of his murders.’

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Cross References

Matthew 10:17"But beware of men! For they will give you up to the Sanhedrin, and flog you in their synagogues.

Acts 9:1Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 26:9"I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against 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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