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Acts 22:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women,

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For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

I certainly admit to you that I worship our fathers' God according to the methods of what they call a 'sect'; but I believe all that is written in the Law and in the prophets,

It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened.

But as some grew stubborn and disobedient, decrying the Way in presence of the multitude, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued his argument every day from eleven to four in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

In the synagogue he was very outspoken at first; but when Aquila and Priscilla listened to him, they took him home and explained more accurately to him what the Way of God really meant.

She followed Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are servants of the Most High God, they proclaim to you the way of salvation!"

to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);




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