Acts 9:1 Cross References - Riverside

¹ SAUL was still breathing out threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the High Priest

⁵⁸ and hurried him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

³ Saul cruelly hounded the church from house to house, entering and dragging out men and women and handing them over into prison.

¹¹ The Lord said to him, "Rise and go to the street called Straight street, and ask in the house of Judas for a man named Saul from Tarsus. He is now in prayer, ¹² and has seen a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him in order that he may receive his sight." ¹³ Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard about this man from many people — how many wicked things he has done to thy holy ones in Jerusalem, ¹⁴ and here he has authority from the high priests to bind all who call upon thy name." ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before nations and kings and the children of Israel. ¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name." ¹⁷ Ananias went and entered the house and put his hands on Saul, and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me — Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you were coming — that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." ¹⁸ Immediately scales seemed to fall from his eyes and he could see, and he arose and was baptized, ¹⁹ and after taking food he regained his strength. Saul passed some days with the disciples who were in Damascus, ²⁰ and at once he began to proclaim in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God. ²¹ All who heard him were astonished and said, "Is not this the man who in Jerusalem persecuted those who call on this name, and who came here for the very purpose of binding and taking them to the high priests?"

³ "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus, in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in exact knowledge of our ancestral Law, and I was zealous for God as you all are to-day. ⁴ I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prison both men and women, ⁵ as the High Priest and all the eldership can testify for me. From them I received letters to the brethren and was journeying to Damascus in order to bring back in chains to Jerusalem for punishment those who had gone there.

⁹ I thought with myself that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ And I did it in Jerusalem and many holy men I shut up in prison, getting authority from the high priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. ¹¹ In all the synagogues and often I punished them and compelled them to say profane words. Being excessively mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

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

¹³ You have heard of my former life in Judaism, that I furiously persecuted the church of God and made havoc of it,

⁶ as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the Law blameless.

¹³ though before that I spoke profanely and was a persecutor and insolent in outrages. But I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.