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Acts 22:20 KJV
Acts · chapter 22 · verse 20
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.Acts 22:20 · King James Version
Acts 22:20 in context
18And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
19And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
20And 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.
21And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
22And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- consentingsyneudokeōto be pleased together with, to approve together , to be pleased at the same time with…G4909 →
- StephenstephanosStephen = " crowned" , one of the seven deacons in Jerusalem and the first…G4736 →
- raimenthimationa garment , garmentsG2440 →
- martyrmartysa witness, in a legal sense, an historical sense, one who is a spectator of anything…G3144 →
- bloodhaimablood, of man or animals, refers to the seat of life, of those things that resemble…G129 →
- deathanairesisa destroying, killing, murderG336 →
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Paul here gives such an account of himself as might serve not only to satisfy the chief captain that he was not that Egyptian he took him to be, but the Jews also that he was not that enemy to their church and nation, to their law and temple, they took him to be, and that what he did in preaching Christ, and…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-21