🌊WEB · Acts 22:19
What does Acts 22:19 mean?
"I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you."
— Acts 22:19 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
“When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’
I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
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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