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Summary

As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

The brethren

Bible References

Also

Acts 9:1
And Saul, yet breathing out threatening and murder against the disciples of the Lord, having come to the chief priest,
Acts 26:10
Which I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the holy ones I shut up in prison, having received authority from chief priests; and they taken up, I carried down a vote.

And all

Acts 4:5
And it was on the morrow, their rulers, and elders, and scribes, were gathered together at Jerusalem,
Acts 5:21
And having heard, they came in by morning to the temple, and taught. But the chief priest having approached, and they with him, called the council together, and all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison for them to be brought.
Luke 22:66
And when it was day, the council of elders of the people was gathered together, and the chief priests and scribes, and they brought him to their council,

The brethren

Acts 22:1
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence to you.
Romans 9:3
For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: