'Defiance' in the Bible

Jason has received them into his house; and they all set Caesar's authority at defiance, declaring that there is another Emperor-- one called Jesus."

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you actually sit to judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?”

“So then, I [once] thought to myself that it was my duty to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.