Acts 9:23

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

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

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.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

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.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

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

men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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.’ ”

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

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

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

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.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

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

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

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

preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

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

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”

But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them.

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

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.

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

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

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

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

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.

But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

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.

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

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

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 you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.