Acts 22
Acts 22 | |
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Acts 15:22-24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550. | |
Book | Acts of the Apostles |
Bible part | New Testament |
Order in the Bible part | 5 |
Category | Church history |
Acts 22 is the twenty-second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the event leading to Paul's imprisonment in Jerusalem.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.[2]
Text
The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 30 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
- Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
- Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
- Codex Bezae (ca. AD 400)
- Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
- Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (ca. AD 450; extant: verses 21-30)
- Codex Laudianus (ca. AD 550)
Location
The events in this chapter took place in Jerusalem.
Structure
This chapter can be grouped:
- Acts 22:1-21 = Addressing the Jerusalem Mob
- Acts 22:22-29 = Paul’s Roman Citizenship
- Acts 22:30 = The Sanhedrin Divided
Verse 3
Verse 8
Verse 12
- [Paul said:] "Then a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good testimony with all the Jews who dwelt there,"[5]
Verse 16
- [Paul retold that Ananias said to him:] "And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord."[6]
Verse 28
- The commander answered, “With a large sum I obtained this citizenship.”
- And Paul said, “But I was born a citizen.”[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
- ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
- ↑ Acts 22:3
- ↑ Acts 22:8
- ↑ Acts 22:12
- ↑ Acts 22:16
- ↑ Acts 22:28
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