19And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
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And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-21)Paul here gives such an account of himself as might serve not only to satisfy the chief captain that he was not that Egyptian he took him to be, but the Jews also that he was not that enemy to their church and nation, to their law and temple, they took him to be, and that what he did in preaching Christ, and particularly in preaching him to the Gentiles, he did by a divine commission. He here give…
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