Acts 8:1
And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.
Acts 7:58
and dragged him out of the city and stoned him, the witnesses throwing down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Acts 5:33
When they heard this, they were furious, and wanted to kill them.
Acts 5:40
They were convinced by him, and they called the apostles in and had them flogged, and warned them not to speak about the name of Jesus, and then let them go.
Acts 22:20
and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and took charge of the clothes of the men who killed him.'
Acts 1:8
but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."
Acts 8:4
Those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.
Acts 8:14
When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.
Acts 9:31
So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace and became established. It lived in reverence for the Lord and, stimulated by the holy Spirit, it grew steadily in numbers.
Matthew 5:13
"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.
Matthew 10:25-28
A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!
Matthew 22:6
and the rest seized his slaves, and ill treated them and killed them.
Matthew 23:34
This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;
Luke 11:49-50
This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'??50 so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,
John 4:39-42
Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"
John 15:20
Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.
John 16:2
They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.
Acts 2:47
constantly praising God and respected by all the people. And every day the Lord added people who were saved to their number.
Acts 5:18
and they had the apostles arrested and put in the common jail.
Acts 5:20
"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."
Acts 7:38
It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live.
Acts 7:54
When they heard that, they were enraged and ground their teeth at him.
Acts 11:19-22
The fugitives from the persecution that had broken out over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they told the message to none but Jews.
Acts 13:1
There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.
Philippians 1:12
Now I want to assure you, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in furthering the preaching of the good news.
Hebrews 11:27
Faith made him leave Egypt, unafraid of the king's anger, for he persevered as though he saw him who is unseen.