ACTS 22:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:”
'And I said, Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You' — Paul objects that his former zeal for the law should recommend him to Jerusalem; his persecution credentials paradoxically qualify him as one who should be heard. Yet the risen Jesus will override this logic.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:19
See how he thrusts himself (into danger), I came, he says, after that vision, to Jerusalem. I was in a trance, etc. Again, this is without witness: but observe, the witness follows from the result. He said, They will not receive your testimony: they did not receive it. And yet from calculations of reason the surmise should have been this, that they would assuredly receive him. For I was the man that made war upon the Christians: so that they ought to have received him. Here…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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