Acts 9:21 Cross References - WPNT

²¹ Well, all who heard him were astounded and started saying: “Isn’t this the one who tried to destroy, in Jerusalem, those who called on this name? Even here he had come with that purpose, that he might take them bound to the high priests.”

⁵⁴ And coming into His hometown He began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said: “Where did this man get this wisdom, and the mighty works? ⁵⁵ Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joses and Simon and Jude?

¹⁵ They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demonized, who had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. ¹⁶ Those who had seen it related to them how it happened to the demonized man, and about the pigs. ¹⁷ Then they began to implore Him to depart from their borders. ¹⁸ Well upon His getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized started begging Him that he might be with Him. ¹⁹ But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your family and report to them how much the Lord has done for you; and He had mercy on you”. ²⁰ So he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and all were marveling.

⁸ Then the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind started saying, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?” ⁹ Others said, “This is he;” still others, “He is like him.” He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

⁶ So when that roar occurred, the crowd came together, and was bewildered, because each one was hearing them speaking to him in his own dialect.

¹² Yes they were all amazed and perplexed, saying one to another, “Whatever is going on?”

¹⁰ and they recognized him—that he was the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, with a view to alms—and they were filled with wonder and amazement because of what had happened to him.

¹³ Now upon observing the boldness of Peter and John and perceiving that they were uneducated and unskilled men, they marveled; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

³ As for Saul, he was trying to destroy the Church; invading house after house and dragging away both men and women, he was putting them in prison.

¹ Meanwhile Saul, still exhaling murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ² and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he should find any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

¹³ But Ananias answered: “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Moreover here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are calling on Your name.”

¹³ You have heard of my former conduct while in Judaism, how I was rabid in my persecution of God’s Church and tried to annihilate it; ¹⁴ indeed I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers. ¹⁵ But when God—who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace—resolved ¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me so that I might proclaim Him among the nations/Gentiles, I did not start by consulting with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before I was; rather I went off into Arabia, and then returned to Damascus. ¹⁸ Subsequently, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to compare notes with Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ (I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰ Really, before God, I am not lying in what I write to you.) ²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² So I remained unknown by face to the congregations of Judea (those in Christ) ²³ —they just kept hearing that “He who once persecuted us now proclaims the faith he formerly tried to destroy.” ²⁴ And they glorified God about me.

¹⁰ whenever He comes to be glorified by His saints, yes to be marveled at by all who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed); in that Day.

¹ Consider how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! The world does not acknowledge us for this reason: it did not acknowledge Him.