Acts 8:1 Cross References - MNT

¹ With these words he fell asleep. And Saul fully approved of his murder. On this very day there broke out a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostle were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

¹³ "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt lose its savor, in what way shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing but to be thrown out and trodden under foot of men.

²⁵ "It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household. ²⁶ "So do not fear them; for there is nothing concealed which shall not be revealed, nor anything secret which shall not become known. ²⁷ "What I am telling you is in the darkness, do you speak in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops. ²⁸ "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

⁶ "while the rest seized his slaves and maltreated and murdered them.

³⁴ "For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

⁴⁹ "For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute; ⁵⁰ "so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation,

³⁹ Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did." ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman. ⁴² "We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."

²⁰ "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

² "They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.

⁸ "yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

⁴⁷ praising God, and looked on with favor by all the people. Meanwhile the Lord kept adding to them daily those that were being saved.

¹⁸ and they apprehended the apostles, and threw them into the public prison.

²⁰ He said to them, "Go take your stand in the Temple, and continue to tell the people all the words of this Life."

³³ When they heard this they were infuriated, and were minded to kill the apostles;

⁴⁰ They gave in to him; and called the apostles in, and after flogging them, released them, with instructions not to speak about the name of Jesus.

³⁸ "This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness along with the angel who spoke to him in Mt. Sinai, and with our ancestors to whom he gave living words to hand down to us.

⁵⁴ As they heard these words they became furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

⁵⁸ dragged him outside the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁴ So those who were scattered abroad were going everywhere preaching the word.

¹⁴ The apostle at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, sent to them Peter and John.

³¹ Now throughout the whole of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria the Church continued to enjoy peace and to be spiritually built up. It was increasing in members also, as it kept walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ Then those who had been scattered by the trouble that arose over Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch; but they preached the word to none except Jews. ²⁰ Some of them, however, were Cyprians and Cyrenaeans, who, on reaching Antioch, began to tell the Greeks also the Good News concerning the Lord Jesus. ²¹ The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. ²² When news of this reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.

¹ Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

²⁰ "'and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting, and holding the garments of his murders.'

¹² I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has turned out rather to help than to the hindrance of the gospel.

²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.