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Acts 22:5

James Moffatt - New Testament

as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

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When day broke, the elders of the people all met along with the high priests and scribes, and had him brought before their Sanhedrin. They said to him,

With these orders they went into the temple about dawn and proceeded to teach. Meantime the high priest and his allies met, called the Sanhedrin together and the council of seniors belonging to the sons of Israel, and then sent to prison for the men.

You have a gift that came to you transmitted by the prophets, when the presbytery laid their hands upon you; do not neglect that gift.

They replied, "We have had no letters about you from Judaea, and no brother has come here with any bad report or story about you.

I was travelling to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the high priests,

I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them;

"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence I now make before you."

Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

And in this city too he has authority from the high priests to put anyone in chains who invokes thy Name!"

Next morning a meeting was held in Jerusalem of their rulers, elders and scribes,

Now during these days Peter stood up among the brothers (there was a crowd of about a hundred and twenty persons all together).

Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day.

Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers —

With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day."

Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!"

there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns.

Three days later, he called the leading Jews together, and when they met he said to them, "Brothers, although I have done nothing against the People or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.

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

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




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