Acts 22:5
as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to make arrests there and bring the prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
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- Luke 22:66 : 66 When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council
- Acts 9:1-2 : 1 The Conversion of Saul Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest 2 and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
- Acts 5:21 : 21 When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin– that is, the whole high council of the Israelites– and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.
- Acts 4:5 : 5 On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.
- Acts 9:14 : 14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”
- Acts 13:26 : 26 Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.
- Acts 22:1 : 1 Paul’s Defense“Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense that I now make to you.”
- Acts 26:10 : 10 And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were sentenced to death.
- Acts 26:12 : 12 “While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,
- Acts 28:21 : 21 They replied,“We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.
- Rom 9:3-4 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed– cut off from Christ– for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen, 4 who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
- 1 Tim 4:14 : 14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, given to you and confirmed by prophetic words when the elders laid hands on you.
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- Acts 26:9-157 verses85%
9 Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
10 And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were sentenced to death.
11 I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.
12 “While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,
13 about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.
14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.’
15 So I said,‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied,‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
- Acts 22:3-42 verses84%
3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.
4 I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,
- Acts 9:1-33 verses80%
1 The Conversion of Saul Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest
2 and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
3 As he was going along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
- Acts 22:6-116 verses79%
6 As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.
7 Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me,‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
8 I answered,‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me,‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’
9 Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
10 So I asked,‘What should I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me,‘Get up and go to Damascus; there you will be told about everything that you have been designated to do.’
11 Since I could not see because of the brilliance of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of those who were with me.
- Acts 22:17-215 verses79%
17 When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance
18 and saw the Lord saying to me,‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’
19 I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.
20 And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.’
21 Then he said to me,‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
- Gal 1:13-142 verses75%
13 For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.
14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
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32 In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,
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21 All who heard him were amazed and were saying,“Is this not the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
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15 When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.
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21 For this reason the Jews, after they seized me while I was in the temple courts, were trying to kill me.
- Acts 20:22-232 verses72%
22 And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,
23 except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.
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17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.
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27 But Barnabas took Saul, brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.
- Acts 9:13-153 verses71%
13 But Ananias replied,“Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,
14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”
15 But the Lord said to him,“Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.
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17 Paul Addresses the Jewish Community in Rome After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them,“Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.
- Acts 23:29-302 verses71%
29 I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.
30 When I was informed there would be a plot against this man, I sent him to you at once, also ordering his accusers to state their charges against him before you.
- Acts 26:4-52 verses71%
4 Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.
5 They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.
- Gal 1:22-232 verses70%
22 But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
23 They were only hearing,“The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy.”
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17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you
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14 But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way(which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.
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13 came to me and stood beside me and said to me,‘Brother Saul, regain your sight!’ And at that very moment I looked up and saw him.
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6 In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.
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3 But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
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30 When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
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5 When both the Gentiles and the Jews(together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,