Acts 26:12
Good News Translation
"It was for this purpose that I went to Damascus with authority and orders from the chief priests.

New Revised Standard Version
“With this in mind, I was traveling to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

Contemporary English Version
King Agrippa, one day I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and permission of the chief priests.

New American Bible
“On one such occasion I was traveling to Damascus with the authorization and commission of the chief priests.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whereupon, when I was going to Damascus with authority and permission of the chief priest,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whereupon, when I was going to Damascus with authority and permission of the chief priest,

as.

Acts 9:1,2 And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest . . .

Acts 22:5 As the high priest doth bear me witness and all the ancients. From whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, that I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished.

with.

Acts 26:10 Which also I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority of the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I brought the sentence.

1 Kings 21:8-10 So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and sealed them with his ring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth. . . .

Psalm 94:20,21 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? . . .

Isaiah 10:1 Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

Jeremiah 26:8 And when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, and the prophets, and all the people laid hold on him, saying: Let him be put to death.

Jeremiah 29:26,27 The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison. . . .

John 7:45-48 The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? . . .

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Context
Paul's Testimony to Agrippa
11And oftentimes punishing them, in every synagogue, I compelled them to blaspheme: and being yet more mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities. 12Whereupon, when I was going to Damascus with authority and permission of the chief priest, 13At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that were in company with me.…
Cross References
Acts 9:3
And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh to Damascus. And suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him.

Acts 22:6
And it came to pass, as I was going and drawing nigh to Damascus, at mid-day, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great light:

Acts 26:13
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that were in company with me.

1 Corinthians 15:8
And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine.

Acts 26:11
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