Acts 22:4

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Summary

Acts 22:4

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

I persecuted

This

General references

Leviticus 13:29

Acts 8:3

Bible References

I persecuted

And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;

This

The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim unto you the way of salvation.

and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more accurately.

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.

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

General references

And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.