Acts 22:23

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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.

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

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

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

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

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

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”

When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.

Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”

He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,

But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

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

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

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.

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”

“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

I also did this 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.

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.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.