Acts 22:5
"To this the high priest and all the council of elders are witnesses. It was from them that I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was already on my way to bring those also who were there back to Jerusalem, in bonds, for punishment.
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Acts 4:5There was held in Jerusalem, next morning, a meeting of their rulers, the elders and scribes,
Acts 9:1Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 13:26"Brothers, sons of Abraham’s race, and all among you who reverence God, to us has the word of this salvation been sent.
Acts 26:10"And this also I did in Jerusalem. Armed with authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death I gave my vote against them.
Acts 28:21They said to him. "We neither received any letters about you from Judea nor has any brother come hither to report or speak any harm of you.
1 Timothy 4:14Never neglect the gift within you, which was given in fulfilment of prophecy at the time of the laying on of hands by the elders.
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 →