Acts 8:3 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

³ But Saul began to devastate the Church; he entered house after house, dragged out men and women alike, and threw them into prison.

⁵⁸ And began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

¹ Meanwhile Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the High Priest, ² And asked him to give him letters to the Jewish congregations at Damascus, authorizing him, if he found there any supporters of the Cause, whether men or women, to have them put in chains and brought to Jerusalem. ³ While on his journey, as he was nearing Damascus, suddenly a light from the heavens flashed around him. ⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him-- "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" ⁵ "Who are you, Lord?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," the voice answered; ⁶ "Yet stand up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do." ⁷ The men traveling with Saul were meanwhile standing speechless; they heard the sound of the voice, but saw no one. ⁸ When Saul got up from the ground, though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So his men led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus; ⁹ And for three days he was unable to see, and took nothing either to eat or to drink. ¹⁰ Now there was at Damascus a disciple named Ananias, to whom, in a vision, the Lord said: "Ananias." "Yes, Lord," he answered. ¹¹ "Go at once," said the Lord, "to the 'Straight Street', and ask at Judas's house for a man named Saul, from Tarsus. He is at this moment praying, ¹² And he has seen, in a vision, a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him, so that he may recover his sight." ¹³ "Lord," exclaimed Ananias, "I have heard from many people about this man--how much harm he has done at Jerusalem to your People there.

²¹ All who heard him were amazed. "Is not this," they asked, "the man who worked havoc in Jerusalem among those that invoke this Name, and who had also come here for the express purpose of having such persons put in chains and taken before the Chief Priests?"

³ "I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but I was brought up in this city under the teaching of Gamaliel, and educated in accordance with the strict system of our ancestral Law. I was as zealous in God's service as any of you who are here to-day. ⁴ In my persecution of this Cause I did not stop even at the taking of life. I put in chains, and imprisoned, men and women alike--

¹⁹ 'Lord,' I answered, 'these people know that I used to imprison and scourge, in Synagogue after Synagogue, those who believed in you;

⁹ I myself, it is true, once thought it my duty to oppose in every way the Name of Jesus of Nazareth; ¹⁰ And I actually did so at Jerusalem. Acting on the authority of the Chief Priests, I myself threw many of the People of Christ into prison, and, when it was proposed to put them to death, I gave my vote for it. ¹¹ Time after time, in every Synagogue, I tried by punishments to force them to blaspheme. So frantic was I against them, that I pursued them even to towns beyond our borders.

⁹ For I am the meanest of the Apostles, I who am unworthy of the name of 'Apostle,' because I persecuted the Church of God.

¹³ You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism--how I persecuted the Church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,

⁶ As to zeal, I was a persecutor of the Church; as to such righteousness as is due to Law, I proved myself blameless.

¹³ though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;

⁶ But you--you insult the poor man! Is not it the rich who oppress you? Is not it they who drag you into law-courts?