Acts 22:5
As the high priest and all the council of the elders can bear witness. For I received from them letters to the brethren, and I went to Damascus to take those who were there and bring them bound to Jerusalem, to be punished.
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4And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Cross References
Acts 4:5And it came to pass on the next day, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
Acts 9:1And Saul, still breathing out threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
Acts 13:26Brethren, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the word of this salvation.
Acts 26:10And this I did in Jerusalem: and I had many of the saints shut up in prison, by authority of the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.
Acts 28:21And they said to him, We neither received letters from Judaea concerning you, nor have any of the brethren who have come here reported or spoken any evil against you.
1 Timothy 4:14Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophetic message when the body of elders laid hands upon you.
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 →