Acts 9:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Cross References

Genesis 14:15

He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

Isaiah 17:1

An oracle concerning Damascus. See, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear; they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

Matthew 10:17

Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog 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 he spoke with burning enthusiasm and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

Acts 19:23

About that time no little disturbance broke out concerning the Way.

Acts 19:9

When some stubbornly refused to believe and spoke evil of the Way before the congregation, he left them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 24:14

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our ancestors, believing everything laid down according to the law or written in the prophets.

Acts 24:22

But Felix, who was rather well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing with the comment, “When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”

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 26:12

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

Acts 6:9

Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and others of those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

Acts 7:19

He dealt craftily with our people and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die.

Acts 9:14

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

Acts 9:21

All who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem among those who invoked this name? And has he not come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

2 Corinthians 11:32

In 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 already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterward I returned to Damascus.