"And I said, 'Lord, they know that in every synagogue I was imprisoning and beating those believing on You.

But beware of men, for they will hand you over to councils and they will flog you in their synagogues.

But take heed to yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and they will persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers on account of My name.

And the Jews, seeing the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and spoke against the things being said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

But because they were opposing and blaspheming, he shook off his clothes and said to them, "Your blood [be] on your [own] heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

"Assuredly I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, also blasphemies, as many as they may blaspheme;

Anyone disregarding the law of Moses dies without compassions on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

By how much worse punishment, do you think, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Do they not blaspheme the noble name by which you are called?

Now as he spoke these things, Festus said with a loud voice, "You are mad, Paul! Your higher learning is driving you to madness!"

But he said, "I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but I boldly declare words of truth and reason.

There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that [they go] to the dead.

But they were filled with fury, and they were discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

But having come to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have an abundance of bread, and I am perishing with hunger!

but he was rebuked for his own lawlessness: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.