Acts 26:11
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11 By punishing them often in all the synagogues I tried to force them to blaspheme, and since I was so furiously enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.(A)
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Acts 22:19
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19 And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.(A)
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Acts 13:45
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45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and blaspheming, they contradicted what was spoken by Paul.(A)
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Matthew 10:17
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17 Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues,
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Acts 22:5
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5 as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I went there in order to bind those who were there and to bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.(A)
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Acts 9:1
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The Conversion of Saul
9 Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest(A)
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2 Peter 2:16
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16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
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James 2:7
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7 Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you?
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Hebrews 10:28-29
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28 Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”(A) 29 How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?(B)
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Acts 26:24-25
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Paul Appeals to Agrippa to Believe
24 While he was making this defense, Festus exclaimed, “You are out of your mind, Paul! Too much learning is driving you insane!”(A) 25 But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking the sober truth.(B)
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Acts 18:6
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6 When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes[a] and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”(A)
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- 18.6 Gk reviled him, he shook out his clothes
Luke 21:12
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12 “But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.(A)
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Luke 15:17
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17 But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!
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Luke 6:11
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11 But they were filled with fury and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.
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Mark 13:9
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Persecution Foretold
9 “As for yourselves, beware, for they will hand you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them.(A)
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Mark 3:28
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28 “Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter,(A)
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Ecclesiastes 9:3
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3 This is an evil in all that happens under the sun, that the same fate comes to everyone. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.(A)
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