Acts 22:4
 Acts 22:4 
New International Version (©2011)
I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison,

New Living Translation (©2007)
And I persecuted the followers of the Way, hounding some to death, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prison.

English Standard Version (©2001)
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women in jail,

International Standard Version (©2012)
I persecuted this Way, even executing people, and kept tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

NET Bible (©2006)
I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“And I persecuted this way unto death, as I would bind and deliver men and women into prison.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I persecuted people who followed the way [of Christ]: I tied up men and women and put them into prison until they were executed.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

American King James Version
And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

American Standard Version
and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Darby Bible Translation
who have persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women;

English Revised Version
and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I persecuted this way even to death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Weymouth New Testament
I persecuted to death this new faith, continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison;

World English Bible
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Young's Literal Translation
'And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-11 The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was wholly the act of God. Condemned sinners are struck blind by the power of darkness, and it is a lasting blindness, like that of the unbelieving Jews. Convinced sinners are struck blind as Paul was, not by darkness, but by light. They are for a time brought to be at a loss within themselves, but it is in order to their being enlightened. A simple relation of the Lord's dealings with us, in bringing us, from opposing, to profess and promote his gospel, when delivered in a right spirit and manner, will sometimes make more impression that laboured speeches, even though it amounts not to the full proof of the truth, such as was shown in the change wrought in the apostle.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - I persecuted (see 1 Corinthians 15:9; 1 Timothy 1:13; and Acts 26:11). This Way (see Acts 9:2; Acts 18:25; Acts 19:9, 23). Unto the death (comp. Acts 9:1). Binding, etc. (comp. Acts 8:3; Acts 9:2).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I persecuted this way unto the death,.... That is, the Christian religion, and the professors of it; whom the apostle breathed out threatenings and slaughter against, haled out of their houses, and committed to prison; consented to their death, as he did to Stephen's; and whenever it was put to the vote, whether they should die or not, he gave his voice against them; so that he was a most bitter enemy, and an implacable persecutor of them; which shows how very averse he was to this way, and how great his prejudices were against it; wherefore it must be a work of divine power, and there must be the singular hand of God in it, to reconcile him to it, and cause him to embrace and profess it:

binding and delivering into prisons, both men and women: see Acts 8:3.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. I persecuted, &c.—(See on [2093]Ac 9:1,2; [2094]Ac 9:5-7).


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Paul's Defense to the Crowd
3I am truly 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 you all are this day. 4And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. 5As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound to Jerusalem, for to be punished. …

Acts 8:3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
Acts 9:2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
Acts 22:19 "'Lord,' I replied, 'these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you.
Acts 26:9 "I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Galatians 1:13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
Philippians 3:6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
2 Peter 2:2 Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.