Acts 22:4

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.

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ὃς hos who G3739 ταύτην tautēn this G3778 τὴν tēn (the) G3588 ὁδὸν hodon Way G3598 ἐδίωξα ediōxa persecuted G1377 ἄχρι achri as far as G891 θανάτου thanatou death G2288 δεσμεύων desmeuōn binding G1195 καὶ kai and G2532 παραδιδοὺς paradidous betraying G3860 εἰς eis to G1519 φυλακὰς phulakas prisons G5438 ἄνδρας andras men G435 τε te both G5037 καὶ kai and G2532 γυναῖκας gunaikas women G1135

The early church

Then he brings forward proofs also, saying, "and I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders." "How does this appear?" As witnesses he brings forward the high-priest himself and the elders. He says indeed, "Being a zealot, as ye:" but he shows by his actions, that he went beyond them. "For I did not wait for an opportunity of seizing them: I both stirred up the priests, and undertook journeys: I did not confine my attacks, as ye did, to men, I extended them to women also: both binding, and casting into prisons both men and women." This testimony is incontrovertible; the unbelief of the Jews is left without excuse. See how many witnesses he brings forward, the elders, the high-priest, and those in the city. Observe his defence, how it is not of cowardly fear for himself, that he pleads, no, but for teaching and indoctrination. For had not the hearers been stones, they would have felt the force of what he was saying. For up to this point he had themselves as witnesses.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–11

The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was wholly the act of God. Condemned sinners are struck blind by the power of darkness, and it is a lasting blindness, like that of the unbelieving Jews. Convinced sinners are struck blind as Paul was, not by darkness, but by light. They are for a time brought to be at a loss within themselves, but it is in order to their being enlightened. A simple relation of the Lord's dealings with us, in bringing us, from opposing, to profess and promote his gospel, when delivered in a right spirit and manner, will sometimes make more impression that laboured speeches, even though it amounts not to the full proof of the truth, such as was shown in the change wrought in the apostle.

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