Acts 9:2

New English Translation

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Cross References

Genesis 14:15

Then, during the night, Abram divided his forces against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

Isaiah 17:1

Here is a message about Damascus: “Look, Damascus is no longer a city, it is a heap of ruins!

Jeremiah 49:23

The Lord spoke about Damascus. “The people of Hamath and Arpad will be dismayed because they have heard bad news. Their courage will melt away because of worry. Their hearts will not be able to rest.

Matthew 10:17

Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

John 14:6

Jesus replied, “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 great enthusiasm he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

Acts 19:23

At that time a great disturbance took place concerning the Way.

Acts 19:9

But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 24:14

But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.

Acts 24:22

Then Felix, who understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, adjourned their hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.”

Acts 26:10

And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were sentenced to death.

Acts 26:12

“While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,

Acts 6:9

But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

Acts 7:19

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Acts 9:14

and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”

Acts 9:21

All who heard him were amazed and were saying, “Is this not the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

2 Corinthians 11:32

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,

Galatians 1:17

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.