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Acts 26:10 KJV
Acts · chapter 26 · verse 10
Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.Acts 26:10 · King James Version
Acts 26:10 in context
8Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
12Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JerusalemhierosolymaJerusalem = " set ye double peace" , denotes either the city itself or the…G2414 →
- authorityexousiapower of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases, leave or permission, physical and…G1849 →
- receivedlambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- priestsarchiereuschief priest, high priest, the high priests, these comprise in addition to one holding…G749 →
- saintshagiosmost holy thing, a saintG40 →
- prisonphylakēguard, watch, a watching, keeping watch, to keep watch, persons keeping watch, a guard…G5438 →
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Agrippa was the most honourable person in the assembly, having the title of king bestowed upon him, though otherwise having only the power of other governors under the emperor, and, though not here superior, yet senior, to Festus;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11