Acts 9:1 Cross References - MKJV

¹ And Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

¹² Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.

⁵⁸ And throwing him outside the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid their clothes down at the feet of a young man named Saul.

³ But Saul ravaged the church, entering into every house. And dragging men and women, he delivered them up to prison.

¹¹ And the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the street which is called Straight and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, ¹² and has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him so that he might receive his sight. ¹³ And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your Name. ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake. ¹⁷ And Ananias went and entered into the house. And putting his hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, who appeared to you in the way in which you came, has sent me to you that you might see and be filled with the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And instantly scales as it were fell from his eyes, and he instantly saw again. And rising up, he was baptized. ¹⁹ And taking food, he was strengthened. And Saul was certain days with the disciples in Damascus. ²⁰ And immediately he proclaimed Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God. ²¹ But all who heard him were amazed and said, Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem and came here for that reason, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?

³ I am truly a man, a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the exactness of the Law of the fathers, being a zealous one of God, as you all are today. ⁴ I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering both men and women into prisons; ⁵ as also the high priest bears witness to me, and all the elderhood. And receiving letters from them to the brothers, I traveled into Damascus indeed to lead those being bound to Jerusalem, in order that they might be punished.

⁹ I truly thought within myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, ¹⁰ which I also did in Jerusalem. And I shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And they being put to death, I cast a vote. ¹¹ And I punished them often in every synagogue; I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to the outside cities.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles and am not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

¹³ For you heard my manner of life when I was in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God with surpassing zeal, and ravaged it.

⁶ concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.

¹³ the one who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But I obtained mercy, because being ignorant, I did it in unbelief.