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Acts 22:4
And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.
Acts 22:4 · Bible in Basic English
Acts 22:4 in other translations
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
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In context
1 My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.
2 And, hearing him talking in the Hebrew language, they became the more quiet, and he said,
3 I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.
4 And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.
5 Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.
6 And it came about that while I was on my journey, coming near to Damascus, about the middle of the day, suddenly I saw a great light from heaven shining round me.
7 And when I went down on the earth, a voice came to my ears saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?
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