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Acts 22:5

American King James Version (1999)

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

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And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,

And in those days Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

Men and brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and whoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

Men and brothers, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us to this day.

Men, brothers, and fathers, hear you my defense which I make now to you.

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

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.

And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to strange cities.

Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said to them, Men and brothers, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

And they said to him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning you, neither any of the brothers that came showed or spoke any harm of you.

And now, brothers, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,

And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on your name.

For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.




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