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For you will be a witness for Him to all people of what you have seen and heard.
Acts 22:15 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
  • KJV For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
  • BSB You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.
  • NKJV For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.
  • NLT For you are to be his witness, telling everyone what you have seen and heard.

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Quick answer

Paul is told he will be a witness for Christ to all people of what he has seen and heard. His conversion comes with a commission to testify universally.

Overview

Paul's experience of the risen Lord qualifies him as an eyewitness and apostle (1 Corinthians 15:8). The scope 'to all men' anticipates his mission to Jews and Gentiles alike. Salvation in Christ is never merely private; those who receive grace are sent to bear witness to it before the world.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 11

  • Acts 23:11The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
  • Acts 4:20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
  • John 15:27You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
  • Acts 10:39–41We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
  • Acts 27:24saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
  • Luke 24:47–48and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
  • Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
  • Acts 1:22beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
  • Acts 22:14He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
  • Acts 26:16–18But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 22:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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