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Acts 22:5

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as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

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And as the day came, the Council of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him away to their Sanhedrin, saying,

And in those days, Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (a crowd of about 120 persons was there together), and said,

“Brothers, sons of Abraham’s family, and those among you who fear God, to us the word of this salvation was sent.

“Men, brothers, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

“Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense which I now offer to you.”

Now Paul, looking intently at the Sanhedrin, said, “Brothers, I have lived my life in all good conscience before God up to this day.”

But knowing that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!”

And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them.

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.

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

And it happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

And they said to him, “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers come here and reported or spoken anything bad about you.

“And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

Now it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;

Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and those with him came, they called the Sanhedrin together, even all the Council of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the jailhouse for them to be brought.

And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

Do not neglect the gift within you, which was given to you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.




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