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 understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death.

And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

This

Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”

and he began to speak out 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.

But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve

the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

General references

“Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard,

But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.