Acts 22:15-25

15 'For you will be ¹a witness for Him to all men of ²what you have seen and heard.

16 'Now why do you delay? ³Get up and be baptized, and ⁴wash away your sins, ⁵calling on His name.'

17 "It happened when I ⁶returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I ⁷fell into a trance,

18 and I saw Him saying to me, '⁸Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.'

19 "And I said, 'Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another ⁹I used to imprison and ¹⁰beat those who believed in You.

20 'And ¹¹when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him.'

21 "And He said to me, 'Go! For I will send you far away ¹²to the Gentiles.'"

22 They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, "¹³Away with such a fellow from the earth, for ¹⁴he should not be allowed to live!"

23 And as they were crying out and ¹⁵throwing off their cloaks and ¹⁶tossing dust into the air,

24 the commander ordered him to be brought into ¹⁷the barracks, stating that he should be ¹⁸examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why * they were shouting against him that way.

25 But when they stretched him out with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge ¹⁹a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?"

Cross References

• 1. Acts 23:11; Acts 26:16
• 2. Acts 22:14
• 3. Acts 9:18
• 4. Acts 2:38; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 5:26; Hebrews 10:22
• 5. Acts 7:59
• 6. Acts 9:26; Acts 26:20
• 7. Acts 10:10
• 8. Acts 9:29
• 9. Acts 8:3; Acts 22:4
• 10. Matthew 10:17; Acts 26:11
• 11. Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Acts 26:10
• 12. Acts 9:15
• 13. Acts 21:36; 1 Thessalonians 2:16
• 14. Acts 25:24
• 15. Acts 7:58
• 16. 2 Samuel 16:13
• 17. Acts 21:34
• 18. Acts 22:29
• 19. Acts 16:37

Footnotes

• [a] I.e. chiliarch, in command of one thousand troops
• [b] Or "for the whip"
• [c] Interrogation by torture was a procedure used with slaves