Acts 22:5

As the high priest is my witness, and likewise all the Elders; from whom I received letters, that I might go to the brethren in Damascus, and bring those who were there prisoners to Jerusalem, to receive capital punishment.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

4And I persecuted this way, even to death; for I bound, and delivered up to prison, both men and women.

6And as I travelled and began to approach Damascus, at noonday, from amidst tranquillity, a great light from heaven burst upon me.

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Cross References

Acts 4:5And the next day, the rulers and the Elders and the Scribes assembled;

Acts 9:1And Saul was still full of threats and deadly hatred against the disciples of our Lord.

Acts 13:26Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and all who, with you, fear God, to you is this word of life sent.

Acts 26:10Which I also did at Jerusalem; and by the authority I received from the chief priests, I cast many of the saints into prison and when they were put to death by them, I took part with those that condemned them.

Acts 28:21They said to him: We have received no epistle from Judaea against thee; and none of the brethren who have come from Jerusalem, have told us any evil thing of thee.

1 Timothy 4:14Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, and by the laying on of the hand of the eldership.

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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