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When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.
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Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.
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because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard John, he was greatly puzzled; yet he liked to listen to him.
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The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
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But if we say, ‘Of human origin’ …” (They feared the people, for everyone held that John really was a prophet.)
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When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear.
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His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation.
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to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear
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“Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”
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Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.
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But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
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He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.
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“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,
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There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
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But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
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Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
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But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.
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Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;
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The Burial of Jesus
Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.
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Jesus Appears to His Disciples
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
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Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
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When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened.
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Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.
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At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them.
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‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
