World English Bible
Acts 22:19
“I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.”
Verse in context — Acts 22
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It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
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and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.
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I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
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When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.
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He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.
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