“I am a Jewish man born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law received from our fathers, being zealous for God, just as all of you are today. I[a] persecuted this Way to the death, tying up and delivering to prison both men and women, as indeed the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me, from whom also I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and[b] was traveling there[c] to lead away those who were there also tied up to Jerusalem so that they could be punished.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 22:4 Literally “who”
  2. Acts 22:5 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“received”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Acts 22:5 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation