His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone should confess that He was Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

They answered and said to him, You were born completely in sins, and do you teach us? And they drove him out.

Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, that they might not be put out of the synagogue;

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

being defamed, we entreat. We have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

who say, Keep to yourself, do not come near me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in My nose, a fire that burns all the day.

And do not fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who has power to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Then they will deliver you up to affliction and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

When they heard this, they were cut to the heart and took counsel to do away with them.

They also set up false witnesses who said, This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law;

for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.

and said, Behold, I see the Heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not charge them with this sin. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.

Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder toward the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers' Law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,

So I said, Lord, they know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those believing on You.

Then He said to me, Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.

Then, as they cried out and tore off their clothes and threw dust into the air,

Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

For I bear witness of them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full true knowledge.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless.