Acts 9:2

New American Bible - revised edition

and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that, if he should find any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them back to Jerusalem in chains.

Cross References

Genesis 14:15

He and his servants deployed against them at night, defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

Isaiah 17:1

Oracle on Damascus: See, Damascus shall cease to be a city and become a pile of ruins;

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. Hamath and Arpad are shamed, for they have heard bad news; Anxious, they surge like the sea which cannot calm down.

Matthew 10:17

But beware of people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues,

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Acts 18:25

He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and, with ardent spirit, spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

Acts 19:23

About that time a serious disturbance broke out concerning the Way.

Acts 19:9

But when some in their obstinacy and disbelief disparaged the Way before the assembly, he withdrew and took his disciples with him and began to hold daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 24:14

But this I do admit to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our ancestors and I believe everything that is in accordance with the law and written in the prophets.

Acts 24:22

Then Felix, who was accurately informed about the Way, postponed the trial, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I shall decide your case.”

Acts 26:10

and I did so in Jerusalem. I imprisoned many of the holy ones with the authorization I received from the chief priests, and when they were to be put to death I cast my vote against them.

Acts 26:12

“On one such occasion I was traveling to Damascus with the authorization and commission of the chief priests.

Acts 6:9

Certain members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and debated with Stephen,

Acts 7:19

He dealt shrewdly with our people and oppressed [our] ancestors by forcing them to expose their infants, that they might not survive.

Acts 9:14

And here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call upon your name.”

Acts 9:21

All who heard him were astounded and said, “Is not this the man who in Jerusalem ravaged those who call upon this name, and came here expressly to take them back in chains to the chief priests?”

2 Corinthians 11:32

At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus, in order to seize me,

Galatians 1:17

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus.