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Acts 22:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’ "

Acts 22:20

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18 and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’

19 I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

21 “He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’ ”

22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”

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"Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles."

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Acts 22:1

"“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”"

Acts 22:2

"When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,"

Acts 22:3

"“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today."

Acts 22:4

"I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,"

Acts 22:5

"as also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished."

Acts 22:6

"“As I made my journey and came close to Damascus, about noon suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky."

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