Acts 22:24

Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

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.

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.

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

When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” He said, “Do you know Greek?

But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

About Asher he said, “Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil.

Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”

Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”

But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”

A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

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

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

He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

“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.

But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

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

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”