Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgment of death [is due] to this man, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.

and they shall be ashamed; for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.

They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.

Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene;

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.