Acts 22:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

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  • Matt 10:17 : 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
  • Acts 22:4 : 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
  • Acts 9:1 : 1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
  • Acts 26:9-9 : 9 "I myself most assuredly 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,

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    20When 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.'"

    22They 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 26:9-15
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    9"I myself most assuredly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10This 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.

    11Punishing 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,

    13at 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.

    14When 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 22:2-11
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    2When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

    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 manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

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

    5As 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.

    6It 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.

    7I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'

    8I 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.

    10I 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.'

    11When 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 22:17-18
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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,

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

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

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    13For 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.

    14I 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 26:4-5
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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;

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

  • Acts 24:13-14
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    13Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

    14But 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;

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    21All 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!"

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

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

  • Acts 9:13-14
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    13But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

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

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

    2and 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 16:22-23
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    22The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

    23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

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

  • Acts 9:4-5
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    4He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

    5He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.{TR adds "It's hard for you to kick against the goads."}

  • Acts 20:22-23
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    22Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

    23except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

  • Acts 21:20
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    20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

  • Acts 28:22
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    22But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

  • 2 Tim 3:11
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    11persecutions, 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 25:15
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    15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

  • Acts 14:5
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    5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

  • Acts 28:19
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    19But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.