Acts 8:1
(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.
Acts 7:58
Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).
Acts 5:33
When they heard this, they were so furious that they determined to make away with the apostles.
Acts 5:40
They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus.
Acts 22:20
and that I stood and approved when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, taking charge of the clothes of his murderers!'
Acts 1:8
You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
Acts 8:4
Now those who were scattered went through the land preaching the gospel.
Acts 8:14
When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they despatched Peter and John,
Acts 9:31
Now, all over Judaea, Galilee, and Samaria, the church enjoyed peace; it was consolidated, inspired by reverence for the Lord and by its invocation of the holy Spirit, and so increased in numbers.
Matthew 5:13
You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.
Matthew 10:25-28
enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!
Matthew 22:6
while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.
Matthew 23:34
This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;
Luke 11:49-50
This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute';
John 4:39-42
Now many Samaritans belonging to that town believed in him on account of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."
John 15:20
Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours.
John 16:2
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
Acts 2:47
praising God and looked on with favour by all the people. Meantime the Lord added the saved daily to their number.
Acts 5:18
they laid hands on the apostles and put them into the public prison,
Acts 5:20
"Go and stand in the temple, telling the people all about this Life."
Acts 7:38
This was the man who at the assembly in the desert intervened between the angel who spoke to him on mount Sinai and our fathers; he received living Words to be given to us.
Acts 7:54
When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
Acts 11:19-22
Now those who had been scattered by the trouble which arose over Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they preached the word to none except Jews.
Acts 13:1
Now in the local church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Symeon (called Niger) and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen (a foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.
Philippians 1:12
I would have you understand, my brothers, that my affairs have really tended to advance the gospel;
Hebrews 11:27
It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched.