Acts 9:2

To the synagogues; this council, though it sat at Jerusalem, had a power (whether commanding or recommending) over all the synagogues within or without Judea. Of this way; this was eminently so called, being the way of God, and the way of life, and the only right and true way: any profession, persuasion, or manner of life, is called a way frequently in Scripture, 1 Kings 15:26 Psalms 91:2. Men or women; it speaks their extraordinary rage, that would not spare the weaker sex, who are generally spared on that account. Bring them bound; which shows that he carried many with him, to the further aggravation of his sin. Unto Jerusalem; where they had power to judge of such things, and out of which it was impossible that a prophet should perish, Luke 13:33.