Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
brethren.
Acts 7:2 And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory …
Acts 13:26 Men and brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and whoever among …
Acts 23:1,6 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brothers, …
Acts 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief …
my. Greek all.
Acts 19:33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him …
Acts 24:10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned to him to speak, answered…
Acts 25:8,16 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, …
Acts 26:1,2,24 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. …
Luke 12:11 And when they bring you to the synagogues, and to magistrates, and …
Luke 21:14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what you …
Romans 2:15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience …
1 Corinthians 9:3 My answer to them that do examine me is this,
2 Corinthians 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that you sorrowed after a godly sort, …
2 Corinthians 12:19 Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before …
Philippians 1:7,17 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have …
2 Timothy 4:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: …
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts…
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Jew.
Acts 21:39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, …
Romans 11:1 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also …
2 Corinthians 11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they …
Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe …
in Tarsus.
Acts 9:11,30 And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the street which is …
Acts 11:25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
a city.
Acts 6:9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue …
Acts 15:23,41 And they wrote letters by them after this manner…
Acts 23:34 And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province …
Galatians 1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
at.
Deuteronomy 33:3 Yes, he loved the people; all his saints are in your hand: and they …
2 Kings 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; …
Luke 2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the …
Luke 8:35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found …
Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, …
Gamaliel.
Acts 5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, …
taught.
Acts 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the …
Acts 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after …
Galatians 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own …
Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe …
was.
Acts 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, …
2 Samuel 21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said to them; (now the Gibeonites …
Romans 10:2,3 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according …
Galatians 4:17,18 They zealously affect you, but not well; yes, they would exclude …
Philippians 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness …
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
I persecuted.
Acts 22:19,20 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue …
Acts 7:58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid …
Acts 8:1-4 And Saul was consenting to his death. And at that time there was …
Acts 9:1,2,13,14,21 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the …
Acts 26:9-11 I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary …
1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called …
Philippians 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness …
1 Timothy 1:13-15 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but …
this.
Acts 16:17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the …
Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and …
Acts 19:9,23 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of …
Acts 24:14 But this I confess to you, that after the way which they call heresy, …
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
also.
Acts 9:1,2,14 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the …
Acts 26:10,12 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I …
and all.
Acts 4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
Acts 5:21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the …
Luke 22:66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief …
the brethren.
Acts 22:1 Men, brothers, and fathers, hear you my defense which I make now to you.
Romans 9:3,4 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, …
And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
that. It is evident that the apostle considered his extraordinary conversion as a most complete demonstration of the truth of Christianity; and when all the particulars of his education, his previous religious principles, his zeal, his enmity against Christians, and his prospects of secular honours and preferments by persecuting them, are compared with the subsequent part of his life, and the sudden transition from a furious persecutor to a zealous preacher of the gospel, in which he laboured and suffered to the end of his life, and for which he died a martyr, it must convince every candid and impartial person that no rational account can be given of this change, except what he himself assigns; and consequently, if that be true, that Christianity is Divine.
that.
Acts 9:3-5 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined …
Acts 26:12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from …
Damascus.
Genesis 14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, …
Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, …
2 Samuel 8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became …
about.
Acts 26:13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the …
Isaiah 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the …
Matthew 17:2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, …
Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went …
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Saul.
Genesis 3:9 And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you?
Genesis 16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, from where came you? and where …
Genesis 22:1,11 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, …
Exodus 3:4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to …
1 Samuel 3:10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, …
why.
Isaiah 43:22-26 But you have not called on me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of …
Jeremiah 2:5,9 Thus said the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, …
Matthew 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as …
Matthew 27:23 And the governor said, Why, what evil has he done? But they cried …
1 Timothy 1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but …
And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
I am.
Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have …
Acts 4:10 Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by …
Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy …
Matthew 2:23 And he came and dwelled in a city called Nazareth: that it might …
whom.
Acts 26:14,15 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking …
Exodus 16:7,8 And in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the LORD; for …
1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in …
Zechariah 2:8 For thus said the LORD of hosts; After the glory has he sent me to …
Matthew 10:40-42 He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives …
Matthew 25:40,45 And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch …
1 Corinthians 12:12,26,27 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members …
And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.
What.
Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said …
Acts 9:6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will you have me …
Acts 10:33 Immediately therefore I sent to you; and you have well done that …
Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Psalm 25:8,9 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way…
Psalm 143:8-10 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you …
there.
Acts 22:12-16 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good …
Acts 26:16-18 But rise, and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose…
And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
one. See on ch.
Acts 9:10-18 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and …
a devout.
Acts 8:2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation …
Acts 17:4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and …
Luke 2:25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; …
having.
Acts 6:3 Why, brothers, look you out among you seven men of honest report, …
Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that …
2 Corinthians 6:8 By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, …
1 Timothy 3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest …
Hebrews 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 John 1:12 Demetrius has good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yes, …
Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
The God.
Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, …
Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree.
Acts 13:17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the …
Acts 24:14 But this I confess to you, that after the way which they call heresy, …
Exodus 3:13-16 And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, …
Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: …
2 Kings 21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the …
1 Chronicles 12:17 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, If …
1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers…
2 Chronicles 28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense …
2 Chronicles 30:19 That prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers…
Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which has put such a thing …
Daniel 2:23 I thank you, and praise you, O you God of my fathers, who have given …
hath.
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel …
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came …
John 15:16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, …
Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated …
Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, …
2 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to …
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according …
and see.
Acts 22:18 And saw him saying to me, Make haste, and get you quickly out of …
Acts 9:17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting …
Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose…
1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ …
1 Corinthians 15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
that.
Acts 3:14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer …
Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they …
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might …
1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. …
hear.
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you…
1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how …
Galatians 1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by …
For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
thou shalt.
Acts 1:8,22 But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come on …
Acts 10:39-41 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land …
Acts 23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good …
Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose…
Acts 27:24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, see, …
Luke 24:47,48 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his …
John 15:27 And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from …
of.
Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Acts 26:20 But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout …
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
why.
Psalm 119:60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments.
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the …
arise.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you …
Romans 6:3,4 Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ …
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, …
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be …
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to …
Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having …
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not …
calling.
Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of …
Acts 9:14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that …
Romans 10:12-14 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the …
1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified …
And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Depart.
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel …
for.
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel …
Acts 13:2,46,47 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said…
Acts 18:6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, …
Acts 26:17,18 Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you…
Romans 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to …
Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the …
Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering …
Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, …
Galatians 1:15,16 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, …
Galatians 2:7,8 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision …
Ephesians 3:6-8 That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and …
1 Timothy 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the …
2 Timothy 1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher …
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Away.
Acts 7:54-57 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they …
Acts 21:36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
Acts 25:24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present …
Luke 23:18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release …
John 19:15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate …
for.
Acts 25:24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present …
And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
The chief. As the chief captain did not understand Hebrew, he was ignorant of the charge against Paul, and also of the defence which the apostle had made; but as he saw that they grew more and more outrageous, he supposed that Paul must have given them the highest provocation, and therefore, according to the barbarous and irrational practice which has existed in all countries, he determined to put him to the torture, in order to make him confess his crime.
Acts 21:31,32 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came to the chief captain …
Acts 23:10,27 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing …
that he should.
Acts 22:25-29 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that …
Acts 16:22,23,37 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates …
John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, …
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
the centurion.
Acts 10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion …
Acts 23:17 Then Paul called one of the centurions to him, and said, Bring this …
Acts 27:1,3,43 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered …
Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should …
Matthew 27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, …
Is it. By the Roman law, no magistrate was allowed to punish a Roman citizen capitally, or by inflicting stripes, or even binding him; and the single expression, I am a Roman citizen, arrested their severest decrees, and obtained, if not an escape, at least a delay of his punishment.
Acts 22:27,28 Then the chief captain came, and said to him, Tell me, are you a …
Acts 16:37 But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being …
Acts 25:16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver …
When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
But. It is extremely probable that the inhabitants of Tarsus, born in that city, had the same rights and privileges as Roman citizens, in consequence of a grant or charter from Julius Caesar, from whom it was called Juliopolis. But if this were not the case, Paul's father, or some of his ancestors, might have been rewarded with the freedom of the city of Rome, for his fidelity and bravery in some military service, as Josephus says several of the Jews were; or his father might have obtained it by purchase, as in the instance of the chief captain.
Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
because.
Acts 21:11,33 And when he was come to us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his …
Acts 23:28 And when I would have known the cause why they accused him, I brought …
Acts 26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that …
Matthew 27:2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him …
commanded.
Acts 22:5 As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate …
Acts 5:21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the …
Acts 23:15 Now therefore you with the council signify to the chief captain that …
Matthew 10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, …
