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Acts 22:5

Lighthouse Bible 2006

As also the high priest bears me witness, and all the order of the elders: from whom also I received letters to the Jewish brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem, 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 midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names altogether was about a hundred and twenty,)

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

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

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, 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 brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: for the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Which things 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 often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

During this time 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 had come together, he said to them, Men and brethren, 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 Judea concerning you, nor did any of the Jewish brethren that came report or speak any evil of you.

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

And it came to pass on the next day, 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 those who 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 conduct in times past in the Jews’ religion, that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and devastated it:

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

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




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