Acts 9:1
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
KJV
Ὁ δὲ Σαῦλος, ἔτι ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς καὶ φόνου εἰς τοὺς μαθητὰς τοῦ κυρίου, προσελθὼν τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ
Greek NT
Saulus autem adhuc spirans minarum et cædis in discipulos Domini, accessit ad principem sacerdotum,
Vulgate
But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
ASV
And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Σαῦλος
saulos
noun · 15×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
προσέρχομαι
proserchomai
verb · 87×
φόνος
phonos
noun · 9×
ἀπειλή
apeile
noun · 3×
ἀρχιερεύς
archiereus
noun · 121×
ἐμπνέω
empneo
verb · 1×
ἔτι
eti
adverb · 94×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Is God alone the efficient cause of grace? Is any disposition towards grace needed on the part of the recipient, by an act of free-will? Can such a disposition make grace follow of necessity? Is grace equal in all? May anyone know that he has grace? Article 1. Whether God alone is the cause of grace? Objection 1. It would seem that God alone is not the cause of grace. For it is…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:9 — For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
- 1Cor 15:9 — For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
- 1Pet 2:23 — Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
- 1Tim 1:13 — Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
- Acts 7:58 — And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
- Acts 8:3 — As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
- Acts 9:11 — And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
- Acts 9:13 — Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
- Acts 13:1 — Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod th
- Acts 22:3 — 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
- Acts 22:5 — 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 Jer
- Acts 22:19 — And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
- Acts 26:9 — I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Acts 26:10 — 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 26:11 — And 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.
- Acts 26:12 — Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
- Gal 1:13 — For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
- Gal 1:13 — For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
- Heb 10:32 — But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
- Isa 11:4 — But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay
- Isa 65:25 — The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
- John 16:2 — They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
- Josh 6:6 — And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.
- Luke 2:34 — And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
- Phil 3:6 — Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
- Prov 16:7 — When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
- Ps 27:12 — Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- Ps 83:4 — They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.