Acts 22:19
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“ ‘Lord,’ I replied, ‘these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you.
Read Acts 22:19 Using Other Translations
And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
And I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
“‘But Lord,’ I argued, ‘they certainly know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
What does Acts 22:19 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Acts 22:19
And I said, Lord, they know, that I imprisoned
Men and women, that made a profession of the Christian religion,
( Acts 8:3 )
and beat in every synagogue them that believed on
thee;
in Jerusalem there were many synagogues, and in these scourging
and beating of offenders were used; (See Gill on Matthew
10:17).
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