Acts 22:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I went there in order to bind those who were there and to bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

Cross References

Luke 22:66

When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, gathered together, and they brought him to their council.

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,

Acts 13:26

“Brothers and sisters, you descendants of Abraham’s family and others who fear God, to us the message of this salvation has been sent.

Acts 2:29

“Fellow Israelites, I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Acts 22:1

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense that I now make before you.”

Acts 23:1

While Paul was looking intently at the council he said, “Brothers, up to this day I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God.”

Acts 23:6

When Paul noticed that some were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he called out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”

Acts 26:10

And that is what I did in Jerusalem; with authority received from the chief priests, I not only locked up many of the saints in prison, but I also cast my vote against them when they were being condemned to death.

Acts 26:11

By punishing them often in all the synagogues I tried to force them to blaspheme, and since I was so furiously enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

Acts 26:12

“With this in mind, I was traveling to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

Acts 28:17

Three days later he called together the local leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, he said to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, yet I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

Acts 28:21

They replied, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken anything evil about you.

Acts 3:17

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

Acts 4:5

The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,

Acts 5:21

When they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and went on with their teaching. When the high priest and those with him arrived, they called together the council and the whole body of the elders of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Acts 9:14

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who invoke your name.”

Galatians 1:13

You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it.

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

1 Timothy 4:14

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