Acts 26:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Kgs 21:8-9 : 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. 9 She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 10 Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king!' Then carry him out, and stone him to death."
  • Ps 94:20-21 : 20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
  • Jer 26:8 : 8 It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.
  • Jer 29:26-27 : 26 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. 27 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
  • John 7:45-48 : 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?" 46 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
  • John 11:57 : 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
  • Acts 9:1-8 : 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. 6 But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do." 7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one. 8 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
  • Acts 22:5-9 : 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 26:10 : 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.

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  • Acts 26:9-11
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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.

  • Acts 22:3-11
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    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.

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

    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 26:13-17
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    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.

    16 But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

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

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    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 9:1-4
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    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?"

  • Acts 22:17-21
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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,

    18 and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'

    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.'"

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

  • Acts 9:13-15
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    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."

    15 But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

  • Acts 9:21
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    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!"

  • 2 Cor 11:32
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    32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

  • Acts 25:15
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    15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

  • 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.

  • Acts 26:19
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    19 "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • Gal 1:17
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    17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

  • Gal 1:23
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    23 but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."

  • Acts 9:27
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    27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

  • Acts 9:11
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    11 The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

  • Phil 3:6
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    6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • 1 Tim 1:13
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    13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  • Acts 22:13
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    13 came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' In that very hour I looked up at him.

  • Gal 1:21
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    21 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

  • Acts 9:6
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    6 But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."

  • Acts 24:14
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    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 28:17
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    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,

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    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.