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

Acts 8:3

Bible References

I persecuted

"'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you,

dragged him outside the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

With these words he fell asleep. And Saul fully approved of his murder. On this very day there broke out a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostle were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

"I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.

For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy 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 comes through law, blameless.

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

This

She used to follow after Paul and us, crying out again and again, "These men are servants of the most high God, who proclaimed to you the way of salvation."

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him they took him home and explained to him more accurately the way of God.

But when some grew hardened and disobedient, and spoke evil of the Way before the crowd, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued to hold discussions daily in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

"But this I confess to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors, according to the Way which they call a heresy, believing everything that is according to the Law, or is written in the Prophets,

General references

But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.