Acts 26:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.

I also

The saints

Revelation 17:6

Having

Acts 9:14

Acts 22:5

General references

Leviticus 13:29

John 16:9

Acts 8:3

Bible References

I also

And [after they] had driven [him] out of the city, they began to stone [him], and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And Saul was agreeing with his murder. Now there happened on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Ananias replied, "Lord, I have heard from many [people] about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,

{I} persecuted this Way to the death, tying up and delivering to prison both men and women,

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

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

The saints

Now it happened that [as] Peter was traveling through all [the places], [he] also came down to the saints who lived [in] Lydda.

With regard to [the] saints who [are] in the land, they [are the] noble ones in [whom is] all my desire.

But now I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus:

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. And {I was greatly astonished when I saw her}.

Having

and here he has authority from the chief priests to tie up all who call upon your name!"

as indeed the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me, from whom also I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, [and] was traveling [there] to lead away those who were there also tied up to Jerusalem so that they could be punished.

General references

"And when a man or a woman {has} an infection on [the] head or in [the] beard,

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me,

But Saul was attempting to destroy the church. Entering {house after house}, he dragged off both men and women [and] delivered [them] to prison.