Acts 8:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.

Cross References

Acts 16:19

But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

Acts 22:19

And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.

Acts 7:58

Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.

Acts 9:21

All who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem among those who invoked this name? And has he not come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

1 Corinthians 15:9

For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Galatians 1:13

You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it.

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?