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They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Verse ConceptsCrimesevangelists, ministry ofMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom Of The SaintsMartyrdom, Methods OfOutside The City

Saul agreed with putting him to death.

On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

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Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

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Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

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Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

Verse ConceptsAn Overpowering PresenceDuplicating WordsBowing Before MessiahPersecutiondamascus

Then Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

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“Get up and go to the street called Straight,” the Lord said to him, “to the house of Judas, and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, since he is praying there.

Verse ConceptsRoadsStreetsStraight Paths

So Ananias left and entered the house. Then he placed his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road you were traveling, has sent me so that you can regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

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And after taking some food, he regained his strength.

Saul was with the disciples in Damascus for some days.

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Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that He had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

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After they had completed their relief mission, Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, taking along John who is called Mark.

Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Task OfMissionaries

In the church that was at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, a close friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear God’s message.

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Then they asked for a king, so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years.

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I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’

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came and stood by me and said, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight.’ And in that very hour I looked up and saw him.

Verse ConceptsVisionHealing Through Disciples

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

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