Acts 8:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 assuredly 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 manner 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.{TR adds "It's hard for you to kick against the goads."} 6 But{TR omits "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 Judas 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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  • Acts 8:1-2
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    1Saul 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.

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

  • Acts 8:4
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    4Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

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

    2and 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.

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

    4He 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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    4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

    5As 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.

    6It 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.

    7I 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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    21All 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!"

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

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

    24but 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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    10This 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.

    11Punishing 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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    13For 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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    19I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

    20When 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.'

  • Acts 7:57-58
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    57But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

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

  • Gal 1:23
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    23but 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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    11The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

  • Acts 9:8
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    8Saul 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.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
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    8He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

  • Acts 13:50
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    50But 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.

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

  • Acts 16:23
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    23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

  • Acts 26:14
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    14When 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.'

  • Acts 12:1
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    1Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

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

  • Acts 9:13-14
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    13But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

    14Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."

  • Acts 5:11
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    11Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

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

  • Acts 21:30
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    30All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

  • 1 Sam 23:8
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    8Saul 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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    26When 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.

    27But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

  • Phil 3:6
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    6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Acts 5:21
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    21When 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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    12They 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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    30When the brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

    31So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
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    48He 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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    5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

    6they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

  • Acts 11:25
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    25Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.