Acts 9:13

Ananias objected, recalling the great harm Saul had done to believers. His fear was understandable given Saul's reputation.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Tim 1:13–15although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Acts 8:3But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
• Acts 22:19–20I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
• Ezek 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.
• Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
• Acts 26:10–11This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
• Acts 9:32As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
• Rom 16:2that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
• Acts 22:4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
• Matt 10:16“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
• Rom 15:31that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;
• Exod 4:13–19He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
• Rom 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rom 15:25–26But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
• 1 Kgs 18:9–14He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
• Jonah 1:2–3“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
• Jer 20:9–10If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I can’t.
• 1 Sam 16:2Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.
• Rom 16:15Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

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