Acts 8:3

World English Bible (2000)

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

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  • 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
  • Gal 1:13 : 13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
  • Phil 3:6 : 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
  • Acts 7:58 : 58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
  • Acts 9:21 : 21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!"
  • Acts 22:19 : 19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
  • Acts 26:9-9 : 9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
  • Acts 22:3-4 : 3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day. 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
  • Acts 9:1-9 : 1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" 5 He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 6 But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do." 7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one. 8 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. 9 He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank. 10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, it's me, Lord." 11 The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, 12 and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight." 13 But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

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    1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

    2 Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.

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  • Acts 9:1-4
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    1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

    2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

    3 As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

    4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

  • Acts 22:4-7
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    4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

    5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

    6 It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.

    7 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'

  • Acts 9:21-24
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    21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!"

    22 But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

    23 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

    24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

  • Acts 26:10-12
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    10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

    11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

    12 "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

  • Gal 1:13
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    13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

    20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

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    57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

    58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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    23 but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."

  • Acts 9:11
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    11 The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

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    8 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

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    8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

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    50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

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    23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

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    14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

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  • Luke 9:6
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    6 They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News, and healing everywhere.

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    13 But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

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    11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

  • Acts 5:18
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    18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.

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    30 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

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    8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

  • Acts 9:26-27
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    26 When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

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    6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Acts 5:21
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    21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

  • Acts 6:12
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    12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

  • Acts 9:30-31
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    30 When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

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  • 1 Sam 14:48
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    48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

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    25 Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.