Acts 8:1

Tree of Life Version

Now Saul was in agreement with Stephen’s execution. On that day a great persecution arose against Messiah’s community in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Samaria, except the emissaries.

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am doing an important work, so I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

Daniel 6:10

Thereupon King Darius issued the written decree.

Daniel 6:23

My God sent His angel to shut the lions’ mouths so that they haven’t harmed me, because I was found innocent before Him. Nor have I committed any crime against you, O king.”

Matthew 22:6

And the rest grabbed his servants, humiliated them, and killed them.

Matthew 23:34

“Because of this, behold, I’m sending you prophets and wise men and Torah scholars. Some of them you will kill and execute at the stake, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.

Matthew 5:13

“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt should lose its flavor, how shall it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

John 15:20

“Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

John 16:2

They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Ruach ha-Kodesh has come upon you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and through all Judah, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 13:1

Now in the Antioch community, there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen (brought up since childhood with Herod the Tetrarch), and Saul.

Acts 13:36

For after David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he went to sleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.

Acts 2:47

praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord was adding to their number those being saved.

Acts 22:20

Even when the blood of Your witness Stephen was spilled, I too was standing by and approving, and guarding the clothing of those who were killing him.’

Acts 26:10

And that is what I did in Jerusalem. Not only did I lock up many of the kedoshim in prisons by the authority I received from the ruling kohanim, but I cast my vote against them when they were being condemned to death.

Acts 5:18

They grabbed the emissaries and put them in a public jail.

Acts 5:20

“Go, stand in the Temple and speak to the people the whole message about this Life.”

Acts 5:33

Now when they heard this, they became enraged and wanted to kill them.

Acts 5:40

called in the emissaries, flogged them, ordered them not to continue speaking in the name of Yeshua, and let them go.

Acts 7:38

“This is the one who was in the community in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living words to pass on to us.

Acts 7:54

When they heard these things, they became enraged and began gnashing their teeth at him.

Acts 7:58

Driving him out of the city, they began stoning him, and the witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 8:14

Now when the emissaries in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the message of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Acts 8:2

Some devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him.

Acts 8:4

Now those who had been scattered went around proclaiming the Word.

Acts 8:5

Philip went down to the main city of Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.

Acts 9:31

So Messiah’s community throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had shalom and was built up. Walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, it kept multiplying.

Romans 1:32

Though they know God’s righteous decree—that those who practice such things deserve death—they not only do them but also approve of others who practice the same.

Philippians 1:12

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in the advancement of the Good News.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger—for he persevered as if seeing the One who is invisible.