Acts 26:11

The Passion Translation

I punished them often in every Jewish meeting hall and attempted to force them to blaspheme. I boiled with rage against them, hunting them down in distant foreign cities to persecute them.

Cross References

Acts 22:19

“ ‘But Lord,’ I argued, ‘they all know that I’m the one who went into our Jewish meetings to find those who believe in you and had them beaten and imprisoned.

Acts 13:45

When the Jewish leaders saw the size of the crowds, vicious jealousy filled their hearts and they rose up to oppose what Paul was teaching. They insulted him and argued with him over everything he said.

Matthew 10:17

“Be on your guard! For there will be those who will betray you before their religious councils and brutally beat you with whips in their public gatherings.

Acts 22:5

All of this can be verified by the high priest and the Supreme Council of Elders. For they even wrote letters to our fellow Jews of Damascus, authorizing me to arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

Acts 9:1

During those days, Saul, full of angry threats and rage, wanted to murder the disciples of the Lord Jesus. So he went to ask the high priest

2 Peter 2:16

who was rebuked for evil by a donkey incapable of speech yet that spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

James 2:7

Aren’t they the very ones who blaspheme the beautiful name of the One you now belong to?

Acts 18:6

When they viciously slandered him and hurled abuse on him, he symbolically shook the dust off his clothes in protest against them. He said to them, “Have it your way then! I am guiltless as to your fate, for the blood-guilt of your actions will be on your own heads, and from now on I will preach to the non-Jews.”

Luke 21:12

And because you follow me, you will be on trial before kings and governmental leaders as an opportunity to testify to them in my name.

Luke 15:17

“Humiliated, the son finally realized what he was doing, and he thought, ‘There are many workers at my father’s house who have all the food they want with plenty to spare. They lack nothing. Why am I here dying of hunger, feeding these pigs and eating their slop?

Luke 6:11

The room erupted with bitter rage, and from that moment on, the religious leaders plotted among themselves about how they might harm Jesus.

Mark 13:9

“Be on your guard! For they will hand you over to the ruling councils, and you will be beaten in public gatherings. And you will stand trial before kings and high-ranking governmental leaders as an opportunity to testify to them on my behalf.

Mark 3:28

I tell you this timeless truth: All sin will be forgiven, even all the blasphemies that are spoken.

Psalm 102:8

My every enemy mocks and insults me incessantly. They even use my name as a curse to speak over others!