Acts 22:16
Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.'
New Heart English Bible
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In Context
15For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:14"Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for the Lord our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
Acts 2:38Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 9:18Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
Romans 10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on him.
1 Corinthians 6:11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
Galatians 3:27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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 →