Acts 9:1
But Saul still breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest, and desired of him letters to the synagogues at Damascus,
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In Context
2that if he should find any of this persuasion, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Cross References
Acts 8:3But Saul made havock of the church, entring into the houses, and dragging out men and women, committed them to prison.
Acts 22:3---I am indeed a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, accurately instructed in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.
1 Corinthians 15:9not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Philippians 3:6as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the law blameless: but those things,
Matthew Henry on Acts 9:1
In this chapter we have, I. The famous story of St. Paul's conversion from being an outrageous persecutor of the gospel of Christ to be an illustrious professor and preacher of it. 1. How he was first awakened and wrought upon by an appearance of Christ himself to him as he was going upon an errand of persecution to Damascus: and what a condition he was in while he lay under the power of those convictions and terrors, ver. 1-9 . 2. How he was baptized by Ananias, by immediate directions from heaven, ver. 10-19 .… Read the whole commentary →