Acts 8:1

Weymouth NT

And Saul fully approved of his murder. At this time a great persecution broke out against the Church in Jerusalem, and all except the Apostles were scattered throughout Judaea and Samaria.

Cross References

Matthew 22:6

and the rest seized the king's servants, maltreated them, and murdered them.

Matthew 23:34

»For this reason I am sending to you Prophets and wise men and Scribes. Some of them you will put to death–nay, crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and chase from town to town;«

Matthew 5:13

You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has become tasteless, in what way can it regain its saltness? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown away and trodden on by the passers by.

John 15:20

Bear in mind what I said to you, `A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

John 16:2

You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

Acts 1:8

and yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and Samaria and to the remotest parts of the earth.«

Acts 13:1

Now there were in Antioch, in the Church there –as Prophets and teachers– barnabas, Symeon surnamed `the black,' Lucius the Cyrenaean, Manaen (who was Herod the Tetrarch's foster-brother), and Saul.

Acts 13:36

For David, after having been useful to his own generation in accordance with God's purpose, did fall asleep, was gathered to his forefathers, and did undergo decay.

Acts 2:47

praising God and being regarded with favour by all the people. Also, day by day, the Lord added to their number those whom He was saving.

Acts 22:20

and when they were shedding the blood of Stephen, Thy witness, I was standing by, fully approving of it, and I held the clothes of those who were killing him.'

Acts 26:10

And that was how I acted in Jerusalem. Armed with authority received from the High Priests I shut up many of God's people in various prisons, and when they were about to be put to death I gave my vote against them.

Acts 5:18

and laid hands upon the Apostles, and put them into the public jail.

Acts 5:20

»Go and stand in the Temple, and go on proclaiming to the people all this Message of Life.«

Acts 5:33

Infuriated at getting this answer, they were disposed to kill the Apostles.

Acts 5:40

His advice carried conviction. So they called the Apostles in, and –after flogging them– ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then let them go.

Acts 7:38

`This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us.

Acts 7:54

As they listened to these words, they became infuriated and gnashed their teeth at him.

Acts 7:58

dragged him out of the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments and giving them into the care of a young man called Saul.

Acts 8:14

When the Apostles in Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had accepted God's Message, they sent Peter and John to visit them.

Acts 8:2

A party of devout men, however, buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.

Acts 8:4

Those, however, who were scattered abroad went from place to place spreading the Good News of God's Message;

Acts 8:5

while Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed Christ there.

Acts 9:31

The Church, however, throughout the whole of Judaea, Galilee and Samaria, had peace and was spiritually built up; and grew in numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and receiving encouragement from the Holy Spirit.

Romans 1:32

In short, though knowing full well the sentence which God pronounces against actions such as theirs, as things which deserve death, they not only practise them, but even encourage and applaud others who do them.

Philippians 1:12

Now I would have you know, brethren, that what I have gone through has turned out to the furtherance of the Good News rather than otherwise.

Hebrews 11:27

Through faith he left Egypt, not being frightened by the king's anger; for he held on his course as seeing the unseen One.