Acts 22:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom I also received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Yerushalayim 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

And when it became day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and they led Him into their council, saying,

Acts 1:15

And in those days Kĕ

Acts 13:26

“Men, brothers, sons of the race of Aḇ

Acts 2:29

“Men and brothers, let me speak boldly to you of the ancestor Dawiḏ

Acts 22:1

“Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defence before you now.”

Acts 23:1

And Sha’ul, looking intently at the council, said, “Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before Elohim until this day.”

Acts 23:6

Now Sha’ul, perceiving that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council, “Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, I am being judged concerning the expectation and resurrection of the dead!”

Acts 26:10

which also I did in Yerushalayim, and I shut up many of the set-apart ones in prison, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I gave my vote against them.

Acts 26:11

“And punishing them often in all the congregations, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Acts 26:12

“While thus engaged, as I was journeying to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

Acts 28:17

And it came to be after three days that Sha’ul called the leaders of the Yehuḏ

Acts 28:21

And they said to him, “We neither received letters from Yehuḏ

Acts 3:17

“And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, as your rulers did too.

Acts 4:5

And it came to be, on the next day, that their rulers and elders and scribes assembled in Yerushalayim,

Acts 5:21

Now when they heard, they went into the Set-apart Place early in the morning, and were teaching. But the high priest and those with him came and called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Yisra’ĕ

Acts 9:14

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all those calling on Your Name.”

Galatians 1:13

For you have heard of my former way of life in Yehuḏ

Philippians 3:6

according to ardour, persecuting the assembly; according to righteousness that is in the law, having become blameless.

1 Timothy 4:14

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elderhood.