Acts 22:15
New International Version
You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

New Living Translation
For you are to be his witness, telling everyone what you have seen and heard.

English Standard Version
for you will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

Berean Standard Bible
You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

Berean Literal Bible
For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

King James Bible
For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

New King James Version
For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.

New American Standard Bible
For you will be a witness for Him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

NASB 1995
‘For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

NASB 1977
‘For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Legacy Standard Bible
For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Amplified Bible
For you will be His witness to all men testifying of what you have seen and heard.

Christian Standard Bible
since you will be a witness for him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For you will be a witness for Him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

American Standard Version
For thou shalt be a witness for him unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And you shall be a witness for him to all people about everything whatsoever you have seen and heard.”

Contemporary English Version
You must tell everyone what you have seen and heard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou shalt be his witness to all men, of those things which thou hast seen and heard.

English Revised Version
For thou shalt be a witness for him unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will be his witness and will tell everyone what you have seen and heard.

Good News Translation
For you will be a witness for him to tell everyone what you have seen and heard.

International Standard Version
because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

Literal Standard Version
because you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard;

Majority Standard Bible
You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

New American Bible
for you will be his witness before all to what you have seen and heard.

NET Bible
because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

New Revised Standard Version
for you will be his witness to all the world of what you have seen and heard.

New Heart English Bible
For you will be a witness for him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou shalt be his witness to all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

Weymouth New Testament
For you shall be a witness for Him, to all men, of what you have seen and heard.

World English Bible
For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Young's Literal Translation
because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard;

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Context
Paul's Defense to the Crowd
14Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice. 15 You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard. 16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’…

Cross References
Acts 22:14
Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice.

Acts 23:11
The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome."

Acts 26:16
But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.


Treasury of Scripture

For you shall be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.

thou shalt.

Acts 1:8,22
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth…

Acts 10:39-41
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: …

Acts 23:11
And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

of.

Acts 4:20
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Acts 26:20
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

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Acts 22
1. Paul declares how he was converted to the faith,
17. and called to his apostleship.
22. At the very mentioning of the Gentiles the people exclaim on him.
24. He would have been scourged;
25. but claiming the privilege of a Roman, he escapes.














(15) Thou shalt be his witness.--This mission, identical with that which had been assigned to the Twelve (Acts 1:8), virtually placed the persecutor on a level with them, and was equivalent to his appointment as an Apostle.

Verse 15. - A witness for him for his witness, A.V. A witness. An essential attribute of an apostle (see Acts 1:8, 22, notes). Seen and heard (comp. 1 John 1:1-3).

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Greek
You will be
ἔσῃ (esē)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

His
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

witness
μάρτυς (martys)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3144: A witness (judicially) or figuratively (genitive case); by analogy, a 'martyr'.

to
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

all
πάντας (pantas)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

men
ἀνθρώπους (anthrōpous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

of what
ὧν (hōn)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

you have seen
ἑώρακας (heōrakas)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

heard.
ἤκουσας (ēkousas)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.


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