Acts 8:1

Saul Attempts To Destroy The Church

¹ And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; ² and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him;

In that Day

On that Day

Put to Death

Scattered Abroad

This Very Day

Jerusalem

Judaea

Judea

Samaria

Saul

Stephen

Acts 7:58

and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning him -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul --

Acts 5:33

And they having heard, were cut to the heart, and were taking counsel to slay them,

Acts 5:40

And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go;

Acts 22:20

and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death;

Acts 1:8

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

Acts 8:4

they then indeed, having been scattered, went abroad proclaiming good news -- the word.

Acts 8:14

And the apostles in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria hath received the word of God, did send unto them Peter and John,

Acts 9:31

Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Exodus 10:28-29

and Pharaoh saith to him, 'Go from me, take heed to thyself, add not to see my face, for in the day thou seest my face thou diest;'

Nehemiah 6:3

And I send unto them messengers, saying, 'A great work I am doing, and I am not able to come down; why doth the work cease when I let it alone, and have come down unto you?'

Daniel 3:16-18

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, 'We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee.

Daniel 6:10

And Daniel, when he hath known that the writing is signed, hath gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, over-against Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing it before this.

Daniel 6:23

Then was the king very glad for him, and he hath commanded Daniel to be taken up out of the den, and Daniel hath been taken up out of the den, and no injury hath been found in him, because he hath believed in his God.

Matthew 5:13

'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

Matthew 10:25-28

sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

Matthew 22:6

and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them.

Matthew 23:34

'Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

Luke 11:49-50

because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

John 4:39-42

And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- 'He told me all things -- as many as I did.'

John 15:20

'Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

John 16:2

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

Acts 2:47

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

Acts 5:18

and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

Acts 5:20

'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'

Acts 7:38

'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

Acts 7:54

And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;

Acts 11:19-22

Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only;

Acts 13:1

And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother -- and Saul;

Philippians 1:12

And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,

Hebrews 11:27

by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;