Acts 22:1 — Meaning and Application

Acts 22:2

"(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)"

Acts 22:3

"I am verily a man {which am} a Jew, born in Tarsus, {a city} in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, {and} taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day."

Acts 22:4

"And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women."

Acts 22:5

"As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished."

Acts 22:6

"And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me."