Acts 8:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Saul, meanwhile, was trying to destroy the church; entering house after house and dragging out men and women, he handed them over for imprisonment. Philip in Samaria.

Cross References

Acts 16:19

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square before the local authorities.

Acts 22:19

But I replied, ‘Lord, they themselves know that from synagogue to synagogue I used to imprison and beat those who believed in you.

Acts 7:58

They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him. The witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over him.

Acts 9:21

All who heard him were astounded and said, “Is not this the man who in Jerusalem ravaged those who call upon this name, and came here expressly to take them back in chains to the chief priests?”

1 Corinthians 15:9

For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Galatians 1:13

For you heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it,

Philippians 3:6

in zeal I persecuted the church, in righteousness based on the law I was blameless. Righteousness from God.

1 Timothy 1:13

I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and an arrogant man, but I have been mercifully treated because I acted out of ignorance in my unbelief.

James 2:6

But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court?