When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy; they disputed what Paul was saying and insulted him.

But the Jews stirred up the leading men of the city and the Gentile women of high social standing who worshiped God. They started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their region.

The apostles shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went on to Iconium.

But when the Jews in Thessalonica heard that Paul had preached the word of God in Berea also, they came there and started exciting and stirring up the mobs.

The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask Pilate to set Barabbas free and have Jesus put to death.

"What, then, shall I do with Jesus called the Messiah?" Pilate asked them. "Crucify him!" they all answered.

When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but that a riot might break out, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for the death of this man! This is your doing!"

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask, instead, that Pilate set Barabbas free for them.

They shouted back, "Crucify him!"

threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses left their cloaks in the care of a young man named Saul.

And I myself will show him all that he must suffer for my sake."

And when your witness Stephen was put to death, I myself was there, approving of his murder and taking care of the cloaks of his murderers.'

three times I was whipped by the Romans; and once I was stoned. I have been in three shipwrecks, and once I spent twenty-four hours in the water.

my persecutions, and my sufferings. You know all that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the terrible persecutions I endured! But the Lord rescued me from them all.

With the funeral honors of a donkey, he will be dragged away and thrown outside Jerusalem's gates."

For this reason Jesus also died outside the city, in order to purify the people from sin with his own blood.

Let us, then, go to him outside the camp and share his shame.

My friends, I face death every day! The pride I have in you, in our life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord, makes me declare this.

At all times we carry in our mortal bodies the death of Jesus, so that his life also may be seen in our bodies.

This means that death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

Are they Christ's servants? I sound like a madman---but I am a better servant than they are! I have worked much harder, I have been in prison more times, I have been whipped much more, and I have been near death more often.