Acts 22:1-5

Paul's Defense before the Jews

1 "¹Brethren * and fathers, hear my defense which I now offer to you."

2 And when they heard that he was addressing them in the ²Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he said,

3 "³I am ⁴a Jew, born in ⁵Tarsus of ⁶Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under * * ⁷Gamaliel, ⁸strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as ⁹you all are today.

4 "¹⁰I persecuted this ¹¹Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,

5 as also ¹²the high priest and all ¹³the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also ¹⁴received letters to ¹⁵the brethren, and started off for ¹⁶Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 7:2
• 2. Acts 21:40
• 3. Acts 9:1-22; Acts 22:3-16; Acts 26:9-18
• 4. Acts 21:39
• 5. Acts 9:11
• 6. Acts 6:9
• 7. Acts 5:34
• 8. Acts 23:6; Acts 26:5; Philippians 3:6
• 9. Acts 21:20
• 10. Acts 8:3; Acts 22:19; Acts 26:9-11
• 11. Acts 9:2
• 12. Acts 9:1
• 13. Luke 22:66; Acts 5:21; 1 Timothy 4:14
• 14. Acts 9:2
• 15. Acts 2:29; Acts 3:17; Acts 13:26; Acts 23:1; Acts 28:17, 21; Romans 9:3
• 16. Acts 9:2

Footnotes

• [a]. I.e. Jewish Aramaic
• [b]. Lit "at the feet of"
• [c]. Lit "according to the strictness of the ancestral law"
• [d]. Lit "testifies for me"
• [e]. Lit "having been bound"