Acts 22:5

The Passion Translation

All of this can be verified by the high priest and the Supreme Council of Elders. For they even wrote letters to our fellow Jews of Damascus, authorizing me to arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

Cross References

Luke 22:66

At daybreak the high priests, the experts of the law, and the top religious leaders convened and had Jesus brought before their council.

Acts 1:15

During this time Peter stood up among the 120 believers who were gathered and said,

Acts 13:26

“Fellow Jews, Abraham’s descendants, and all those among you who worship and reverence God, this message of life has been sent for us all to hear.

Acts 2:29

“My fellow Jews, I can tell you there is no doubt that our noted patriarch has both died and been buried in his tomb, which remains to this day. So you can see that he was not referring to himself with those words.

Acts 22:1

“Ladies and gentlemen, fellow believers and elders —please listen to me as I offer my defense.”

Acts 23:1

Paul fixed his eyes on the members of the council and said, “My brothers, up to this day I have lived my life before God with a perfectly clear conscience.”

Acts 23:6

Just then Paul realized that part of the council were Sadducees, who deny the resurrection of the dead, and others were of the separated ones. So he shouted, “My fellow Jews, I am a separated one, and the son of a separated one. That’s why I’m on trial here. It’s because of the hope I have that the dead will rise to live again.”

Acts 26:10

And that’s exactly what I did in Jerusalem, for I not only imprisoned many of the holy believers by the authority of the chief priests, I also cast my vote against them, sentencing them to death.

Acts 26:11

I punished them often in every Jewish meeting hall and attempted to force them to blaspheme. I boiled with rage against them, hunting them down in distant foreign cities to persecute them.

Acts 26:12

“For that purpose I went to Damascus, with the authority granted to me by the chief priests.

Acts 28:17

After three days Paul called together all the prominent members of the Jewish community of Rome. When they had all assembled, Paul said to them, “My fellow Jews, while I was in Jerusalem, I was handed over as a prisoner of the Romans for prosecution, even though I had done nothing against any of our people or our Jewish customs.

Acts 28:21

They replied, “We haven’t received any letters from the Jews of Judea, nor has anyone come to us with a bad report about you.

Acts 3:17

“My fellow Jews, I realize that neither you nor your leaders realize the grave mistake you made.

Acts 4:5

The next day many Jewish leaders, religious scholars, and elders of the people convened a meeting in Jerusalem.

Acts 5:21

So early that morning they entered the temple courts and taught the people. The high priest and his officials, unaware of their supernatural release from prison, convened the members of the supreme council. They sent for the apostles to be brought to them from prison.

Acts 9:14

In fact, the high priest has authorized him to seize and imprison all those in Damascus who call on your name.”

Galatians 1:13

By now you have heard stories of how severely I harassed and persecuted Christians and how systematically I endeavored to destroy God’s church, all because of my radical devotion to the Jewish religion.

Philippians 3:6

And concerning the righteousness of the Torah, no one surpassed me; I was without a peer. Furthermore, as a fiery defender of the truth, I persecuted the messianic believers with religious zeal.

1 Timothy 4:14

Don’t minimize the powerful gift that operates in your life, for it was imparted to you by the laying on of hands of the elders and was activated through the prophecy they spoke over you.