Acts 8:1

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Summary

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

There

The church

And they

Samaria

Acts 8:14

Acts 1:8

John 4:39

Except

Acts 5:18

Hebrews 11:27

Bible References

There

When they heard this they were infuriated, and were minded to kill the apostles;

As they heard these words they became furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

"It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

"while the rest seized his slaves and maltreated and murdered them.

"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

"For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;

"Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.

The church

praising God, and looked on with favor by all the people. Meanwhile the Lord kept adding to them daily those that were being saved.

"This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness along with the angel who spoke to him in Mt. Sinai, and with our ancestors to whom he gave living words to hand down to us.

When news of this reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.

Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

And they

So those who were scattered abroad were going everywhere preaching the word.

Then those who had been scattered by the trouble that arose over Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch; but they preached the word to none except Jews.

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt lose its savor, in what way shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing but to be thrown out and trodden under foot of men.

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has turned out rather to help than to the hindrance of the gospel.

Samaria

The apostle at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, sent to them Peter and John.

"yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

Except

and they apprehended the apostles, and threw them into the public prison.

By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.