Acts 22:4

World English Bible (2000)

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

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  • Acts 22:19-20 : 19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you. 20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'
  • Acts 26:9-9 : 9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
  • Acts 8:1-4 : 1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. 2 Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him. 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison. 4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
  • Acts 9:1-2 : 1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 9:13-14 : 13 But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem. 14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."
  • Acts 9:21 : 21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!"
  • Acts 16:17 : 17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!"
  • Acts 18:26 : 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
  • Acts 19:23 : 23 About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.
  • 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
  • Phil 3:6 : 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • 1 Tim 1:13-15 : 13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
  • Acts 24:14 : 14 But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
  • Acts 7:58 : 58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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  • Acts 22:5-11
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    5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

    6 It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.

    7 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 of Nazareth, whom you persecute.'

    9 "Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

    10 I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.'

    11 When I couldn't see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

  • Acts 26:9-15
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    9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

    11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

    12 "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

    13 at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

    14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

    15 "I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

  • Acts 9:1-5
    5 verses
    82%

    1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

    2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

    3 As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

    4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

    5 He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

  • Acts 22:19-22
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    19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

    20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

    21 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

    22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"

  • Acts 22:3
    79%

    3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

  • Gal 1:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

    14 I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

  • Acts 26:21-22
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    21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

    22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

  • Acts 8:3
    76%

    3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

  • Acts 24:14
    76%

    14 But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

  • Acts 9:21
    73%

    21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!"

  • Phil 3:6
    73%

    6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Gal 1:22-23
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    22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

    23 but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."

  • Acts 26:4-5
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    4 "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

    5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

  • 2 Cor 11:32
    71%

    32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

  • Acts 8:1
    71%

    1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
    71%

    9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

  • Acts 26:17
    71%

    17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

  • Acts 23:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

    30 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."

  • Acts 20:22
    70%

    22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

  • Acts 20:19
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    19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

  • 2 Tim 3:11
    70%

    11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

  • Acts 22:17
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    17 "It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

  • Acts 9:23
    69%

    23 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

  • 1 Tim 1:13
    69%

    13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  • Acts 28:17
    69%

    17 It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

  • Acts 9:14
    69%

    14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."