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

And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and scourged in the synagogues them that believed on Thee.

and cast him out of the city and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.

And Saul was well pleased with his execution. For at that time there was a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all dispersed through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Saul still breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest, and desired of him letters to the synagogues at Damascus,

I indeed once thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene:

not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the law blameless: but those things,

who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an oppressor. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief: and the grace of our Lord superabounded,

This

She following Paul and us, cried out, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, who shew us the way of salvation.

And as he began to speak openly in the synagogue, Aquila and Priscilla heard him and took him home, and expounded to him the way of God more perfectly.

But as some were hardened and refractory, speaking evil of the way of life before the multitude, he departed from them, and took away the disciples with him, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way, which they call heresy, so do I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law, and the prophets:

General references

But Saul made havock of the church, entring into the houses, and dragging out men and women, committed them to prison.