Acts 22:30

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.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

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.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

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.

Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

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.

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

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?

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

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

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

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

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.

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.

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

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

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

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!”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

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.

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.

Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

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.

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.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.