Acts 22:4
King James Version
11 Jun 2026
“And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.”
ὁδός
Not a way among many ways. The way. In the ancient world, hodos meant a road that had been walked and proven. Jesus is not giving directions — He is saying: I am the road itself. Walk in Me and you will arrive.
παραδίδωμι
betraying
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παραδίδωμι
To hand over, to betray, to deliver up. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. The delivering of Jesus was the saving of the world.
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φυλακή
prisons
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φυλακή
a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively
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θάνατος
death
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θάνατος
Death. Thanatos. O death where is your sting? Death has been swallowed up in victory. Jesus did not just survive death. He destroyed its power for everyone who believes.
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διώκω
persecuted
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διώκω
compare the base of G1169 (δειλός) and G1249 (διάκονος)); to pursue (literally or figuratively); by implication, to persecute
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δεσμεύω
binding
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δεσμεύω
to be a binder (captor), i.e. to enchain (a prisoner), to tie on (a load)
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τέ
both
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τέ
both or also (properly, as correlation of G2532 (καί))
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γυνή
women,
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γυνή
a woman; specially, a wife
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