Acts 9:1 Cross References - Murdock

¹ And Saul was still full of threats and deadly hatred against the disciples of our Lord.

⁵⁸ And they seized him, and hurried him out of the city, and stoned him. And they who testified against him, laid their clothes at the feet of a certain young man who was called Saul.

³ And Saul persecuted the church of God, entering houses, and dragging forth men and women and committing them to prison.

¹¹ And our Lord said to him: Arise, go to the street which is called Straight; and inquire in the house of Judas, for Saul who is from the city of Tarsus: for, lo, while he prayed, ¹² he saw in vision a man named Ananias, who came and laid his hand upon him, that his eyes might be opened. ¹³ And Ananias said: My Lord, I have heard of this man, from many, how much evil he hath perpetrated towards thy saints at Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And, lo, here also, he hath authority from the chief priests, to bind all them that call on thy name. ¹⁵ The Lord said to him: Arise and go; for he is to me a chosen vessel, to carry my name to the Gentiles, and to kings, and among the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account of my name. ¹⁷ Then Ananias went to the house to him; and he laid his hand upon him, and said to him: Saul, my brother, our Lord Jesus, he who appeared to thee by the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thy eyes might be opened, and thou be filled with the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And immediately there fell from his eyes something like a scab; and his eyes were opened. And he arose and was baptized. ¹⁹ And he took food, and was invigorated. And he was some days with the disciples of Damascus. ²⁰ And forthwith he announced Jesus, in the synagogues of the Jews, that he is the Son of God. ²¹ And all they that heard him were amazed; and they said: Is not this he, who persecuted all them that call on this name in Jerusalem? And lo, for this very thing also, was he sent hither, that he might bind and carry them to the chief priests.

³ I am a man who am a Jew; and I was born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but was brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed perfectly in the law of our fathers; and I was zealous for God, as ye also all are. ⁴ And I persecuted this way, even to death; for I bound, and delivered up to prison, both men and women. ⁵ As the high priest is my witness, and likewise all the Elders; from whom I received letters, that I might go to the brethren in Damascus, and bring those who were there prisoners to Jerusalem, to receive capital punishment.

⁹ For I myself, at first, resolved in my own mind, that I would perpetrate many adverse things against the name of Jesus the Nazarean. ¹⁰ Which I also did at Jerusalem; and by the authority I received from the chief priests, I cast many of the saints into prison and when they were put to death by them, I took part with those that condemned them. ¹¹ And in every synagogue I tortured them, while I pressed them to become revilers of the name of Jesus. And in the great wrath, with which I was filled against them, I also went to other cities to persecute them.

⁹ I am the least of the legates; and am not worthy to be called a legate; because I persecuted the church of God.

¹³ For ye have heard of my former course of life in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God exceedingly, and destroyed it:

⁶ as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; and as to the righteousness of the law, I was without fault.

¹³ me I say, who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a reviler; but I obtained mercy, because I did it while ignorant and without faith.