Acts 22:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ as the high priest and the whole council of elders bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brethren, and I journeyed to Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ As the high priest and whole council of elders (Sanhedrin) can testify; for from them indeed I received letters with which I was on my way to the brethren in Damascus in order to take also those [believers] who were there, and bring them in chains to Jerusalem that they might be punished.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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 journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

Common English Bible

⁵ The high priest and the whole Jerusalem Council can testify about me. I received letters from them, addressed to our associates in Damascus, then went there to bring those who were arrested to Jerusalem so they could be punished.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ just as the high priest and all those greater by birth bear witness to me. Having received letters from them to the brothers, I journeyed to Damascus, so that I might lead them bound from there to Jerusalem, so that they might be punished.

Acts 22:5 Cross References

Luke 22:66

When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and they led him away to their council, and they said,

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said,

Acts 13:26

“Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

Acts 2:29

“Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Acts 22:1

“Brethren and fathers, hear the defense which I now make before you.”

Acts 23:1

And Paul, looking intently at the council, said, “Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience up to this day.”

Acts 23:6

But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial.”

Acts 26:10

And I did so in Jerusalem; I not only shut up many of the saints in prison, by authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.

Acts 26:11

And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and in raging fury against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Acts 26:12

“Thus I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.

Acts 28:17

After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews; and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Acts 28:21

And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brethren coming here has reported or spoken any evil about you.

Acts 3:17

“And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Acts 4:5

On the morrow their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,

Acts 5:21

And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and taught. Now the high priest came and those who were with him and called together the council and all the senate of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Acts 9:14

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name.”

Galatians 1:13

For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law blameless.

1 Timothy 4:14

Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you.