Acts 22:19

Lord, they know, &c. The Rev. Ver.gives "they themselves know" to mark that the pronoun is emphatic. This is not English, but there seems to be no other way of indicating in our language the emphasis which is expressed in the original. Saul is confident that he will be well known by many to whom he is speaking, and that his zealous persecution of the Christians less than four years before cannot have fallen out of men's memories.

I imprisoned and beat The Greek implies that this conduct was of some continuance. Saul was regularly engaged in the work.

in every synagogue For the synagogues as places where such punishment was inflicted cp. Matthew 10:17; Matthew 23:34; Mark 13:9; Luke 21:12. That they were also places in which charges were heard is seen from Luke 12:11.