Acts 9:21 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²¹ 9 He spoke also to the Gentiles, and disputed with the Greeks; but they sought to kill him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And all who heard him were amazed and said, Is not this the very man who harassed and overthrew and destroyed in Jerusalem those who called upon this Name? And he has come here for the express purpose of arresting them and bringing them in chains before the chief priests.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that in Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name? and he had come hither for this intent, that he might bring them bound before the chief priests.

Common English Bible

²¹ Everyone who heard him was baffled. They questioned each other, “Isn’t he the one who was wreaking havoc among those in Jerusalem who called on this name? Hadn’t he come here to take those same people as prisoners to the chief priests?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And all who heard him were astonished, and they said, "Is this not the one who, in Jerusalem, was fighting against those invoking this name, and who came here for this: so that he might lead them away to the leaders of the priests?"

Acts 9:21 Cross References

Psalm 51:13

Unto the end, understanding for David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul David went to the house of Achimelech. Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?

Psalm 71:7

4 But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise.

Isaiah 8:18

For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou best overcome, as in the day of Median.

Zechariah 3:8

And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 23:23

8 And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,

Acts 2:12

0 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord come.

Acts 2:6

4 But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them: Ye men of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known to you, and with your ears receive my words.

Acts 3:10

8 But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

Acts 4:13

1 But they threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified what had been done, in that which had come to pass.

Acts 7:59

For many of them who had unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, went out.

Acts 8:3

1 And they were attentive to him, because, for a long time, he had bewitched them with his magical practices.

Acts 9:22

0 Which when the brethren had known, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way.

1 John 3:1

0 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just, is not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.