4And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
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And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: …
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. …
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. …
The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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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