Christian Minister: Persecution: Paul
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Acts 9:23–25, 29, 30
After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him, / but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him. / One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
Acts 14:6–20
they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region, / where they continued to preach the gospel. / In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
Acts 16:11–40
We sailed from Troas straight to Samothrace, and the following day on to Neapolis. / From there we went to the Roman colony of Philippi, the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days. / On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a place of prayer. After sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.
Acts 17:1–13
When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. / As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, / explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.
Acts 20:3
where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
Acts 21:27–40
When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, / crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” / For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Acts 22:18, 21, 24–30
and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’ / Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’” / the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him.
Acts 23:11–35
The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.” / When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. / More than forty of them were involved in this plot.
Acts 24:1
Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.
Acts 25:1
Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
Acts 26:1
Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:
2 Corinthians 11:31–33
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying. / In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me. / But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
Galatians 1:21–24
Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. / I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. / They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
2 Timothy 1:8, 16
So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God. / May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
2 Timothy 2:9
for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
2 Timothy 4:16, 17
At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them. / But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.