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Myles Coverdale Bible

Acts 22:4

and I persecuted this waye vnto the death. I bounde them and delyuered them vnto preson, both men and wemen,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bigotry;   Paul;   Way;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Martyrdom;   Persecution;   Zeal;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Damascus;   Lysias;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Way;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christians, Names of;   Faith;   Paul the Apostle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Antonia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Persecution in the Bible;   Prison, Prisoners;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acts of the Apostles;   Damascus;   Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Damascus, Damascenes;   Martyr;   Paul;   Roman Law in the Nt;   Voice;   Way;   Way (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Washing;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Claudius;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Paul;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostolic Age;   Persecution;   Way;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I persecuted the people who followed the Way. Some of them were killed because of me. I arrested men and women and put them in jail.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and I persecuted this waye vnto the deeth byndynge and delyveringe into preson bothe men and wemen
Hebrew Names Version
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
International Standard Version
I persecuted this Way even to the death and kept tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,Acts 8:3; 26:9-11; Philippians 3:6; 1 Timothy 1:13;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
"I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,
New Century Version
I persecuted the people who followed the Way of Jesus, and some of them were even killed. I arrested men and women and put them in jail.
Update Bible Version
and I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I persecuted this way even to death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
English Standard Version
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women,
World English Bible
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women: As likewise the high priest is my witness, and all the estate of the elders:
Weymouth's New Testament
I persecuted to death this new faith, continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y pursuede this weie til to the deth, byndynge and bitakinge `in to holdis men and wymmen,
English Revised Version
and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Berean Standard Bible
I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
Contemporary English Version
I made trouble for everyone who followed the Lord's Way, and I even had some of them killed. I had others arrested and put in jail. I didn't care if they were men or women.
Amplified Bible
"I persecuted and pursued the followers of this Way to the death, binding them with chains and putting [followers of Jesus] both men and women into prisons,
American Standard Version
and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Bible in Basic English
And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.
Complete Jewish Bible
I persecuted to death the followers of this Way, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prison.
Darby Translation
who have persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women;
Etheridge Translation
And this way I persecuted unto the death, while I bound and delivered to the house of the bound both men and women;
Murdock Translation
And I persecuted this way, even to death; for I bound, and delivered up to prison, [fn] men and women.
King James Version (1611)
And I persecuted this way vnto the death, binding and deliuering into prisons both men and women,
New Living Translation
And I persecuted the followers of the Way, hounding some to death, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prison.
New Life Bible
"I worked hard and killed men and women who believed as I believe today. I put them in chains and sent them to prison.
New Revised Standard
I persecuted this Way up to the point of death by binding both men and women and putting them in prison,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I persecuted this way vnto the death, binding and deliuering into prison both men and women.
George Lamsa Translation
And I persecuted this religion to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, this way, I persecuted unto the death, binding and delivering up into prisons both men and women: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Revised Standard Version
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I persecuted this way vnto the death, byndyng & delyueryng into prison both men and women,
Good News Translation
I persecuted to the death the people who followed this Way. I arrested men and women and threw them into prison.
Christian Standard Bible®
I persecuted this Way to the death, arresting and putting both men and women in jail,
King James Version
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Lexham English Bible
I persecuted this Way to the death, tying up and delivering to prison both men and women,
Literal Translation
I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering up both men and women to prisons,
Young's Literal Translation
`And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,
Mace New Testament (1729)
for I persecuted this sect even to death, throwing them into chains and prisons both men and women:
THE MESSAGE
"I went after anyone connected with this ‘Way,' went at them hammer and tongs, ready to kill for God. I rounded up men and women right and left and had them thrown in prison. You can ask the Chief Priest or anyone in the High Council to verify this; they all knew me well. Then I went off to our brothers in Damascus, armed with official documents authorizing me to hunt down the followers of Jesus there, arrest them, and bring them back to Jerusalem for sentencing.
New English Translation
I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,
New King James Version
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Simplified Cowboy Version
I even hunted down Jesus's followers and either killed 'em or locked 'em up. It didn't matter if they were men or women, I hounded them day and night.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,
Legacy Standard Bible
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering both men and women into prisons,

Contextual Overview

3 I am a man which am a Iewe, borne at Tharsis in Celicia, and broughte vp in this cite at the fete off Gamaliel, enfourmed diligently in the lawe of the fathers, and was feruent mynded to God warde, as ye all are also this daye, 4 and I persecuted this waye vnto the death. I bounde them and delyuered them vnto preson, both men and wemen, 5 as ye hye prest also doth beare me wytnesse, and all ye Elders: of whom I receaued letters vnto the brethren, and wente towarde Damascon, that I mighte brynge them which were there, bounde to Ierusalem, to be punyshed. 6 But it fortuned as I made my iourney, and came nye vnto Damascon, aboute noone, sodenly there shone a greate lighte aboute me from heauen, 7 and I fell to the earth, and herde a voyce which sayde vnto me: Saull Saull, why persecutest thou me? 8 I answered: Who art thou LORDE? And he sayde vnto me: I am Iesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest. 9 As for them that were with me, they sawe ye lighte and were afrayed, but they herde not the voyce of him that spake with me. 10 I sayde: LORDE, what shal I do? The LORDE sayde vnto me: Aryse, and go in to Damascon, there shal it be tolde ye of all that is appoynted the to do. 11 But whan I sawe nothinge for the bryghtnesse of the lighte, I was led by the hande of them that were with me, and came to Damascon. 12 There was one Ananias, a deuoute man after the lawe, which had a good reporte of all the Iewes that dwelt there,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I persecuted: Acts 22:19, Acts 22:20, Acts 7:58, Acts 8:1-4, Acts 9:1, Acts 9:2, Acts 9:13, Acts 9:14, Acts 9:21, Acts 26:9-11, 1 Corinthians 15:9, Philippians 3:6, 1 Timothy 1:13-15

this: Acts 16:17, Acts 18:26, Acts 19:9, Acts 19:23, Acts 24:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:29 - General Psalms 67:2 - thy way Luke 11:49 - and some John 16:2 - the time Acts 5:14 - multitudes Acts 8:3 - General Acts 26:10 - I also Galatians 1:13 - how

Cross-References

Exodus 5:3
I knowe not the LORDE, nether wil I let Israel go.They sayde: The God of the Hebrues hath called vs. Let vs go now therfore thre dayes iourney in the wildernes, & do sacrifice vnto the LORDE or God, yt there happen not vnto vs pestilece or swerde.
Exodus 15:22
Moses caused the children of Israel to departe out from the reed see, vnto the wyldernes of Sur, & they wente thre dayes in ye wildernes, yt they founde no water.
Exodus 19:11
and be ready agaynst the thirde daye: for vpon the thirde daye shall the LORDE come downe vpon mount Sinai before all the people.
Exodus 19:15
And he sayde vnto them: Be ready agaynst the thirde daye, and no man come at his wife.
Leviticus 7:17
But loke what remayneth vnto ye thirde daye of the flesh that is offred, it shalbe brent with the fyre.
Numbers 10:33
So they departed from the mount of the LORDE thre dayes iourney, & the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt wente before them those thre dayes iourney, to shewe the where they shulde rest.
Numbers 19:12
the same shall purifie himself herewith, on the thirde daye and on the seuenth daie, and then shall he be cleane. And yf he puryfye not himself on the thirde daye, & on the seuenth daye, the shall he not be cleane.
Numbers 19:19
And he that is cleane, shal sprenkle vpon the vncleane, ye thirde daye, & the seueth daie, & purifye him on ye seueth daye. And he shal washe his clothes, & bathe him self wt water, and so at euen he shalbe cleane.
Numbers 31:19
And lodge ye without the hoost, all yt haue slayne any man, or touched the slayne, that on the thirde and seuenth daie ye maie purifie yor selues and those whom ye haue taken presoners.
Joshua 1:11
Go thorow the hoost, and charge ye people, and saye: Prepare you vytayles, for ouer thre dayes shal ye go ouer this Iordane, that ye maye come in and take possession of the londe, which the LORDE youre God shal geue you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I persecuted this way unto the death,.... That is, the Christian religion, and the professors of it; whom the apostle breathed out threatenings and slaughter against, haled out of their houses, and committed to prison; consented to their death, as he did to Stephen's; and whenever it was put to the vote, whether they should die or not, he gave his voice against them; so that he was a most bitter enemy, and an implacable persecutor of them; which shows how very averse he was to this way, and how great his prejudices were against it; wherefore it must be a work of divine power, and there must be the singular hand of God in it, to reconcile him to it, and cause him to embrace and profess it:

binding and delivering into prisons, both men and women: see Acts 8:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I persecuted - Acts 8:3.

This way - Those who were of this mode of worshipping God; that is, Christians. See the notes on Acts 9:2.

Unto the death - Intending to put them to death. He did not probably put any to death himself, but he committed them to prison; he sought their lives; he was the agent employed in arresting them; and when they were put to death, he tells us that he gave his voice against them Acts 26:10; that is, he joined in, and approved of their condemnation.

Delivering into prisons ... - Acts 8:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 22:4. I persecuted this way — Ταυτην την ὁδον; This doctrine, the way of worshipping God, and arriving at a state of blessedness. Acts 9:2.

Binding and delivering into prisonsActs 8:3; and Acts 9:2.


 
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