They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confesse
So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul an
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict confor
Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that
And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of t
‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in
You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name h
when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world
Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high prie
where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the la
They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.
They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fir
“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in J
When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.