Bible Verses About Jerusalem

But the festival of Sukkot in Y’hudah was near;

so his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go into Y’hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do;

for no one who wants to become known acts in secret. If you’re doing these things, show yourself to the world!”

(His brothers spoke this way because they had not put their trust in him.)

Yeshua said to them, “My time has not yet come; but for you, any time is right.

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me, because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are.

You, go on up to the festival; as for me, I am not going up to this festival now, because the right time for me has not yet come.”

Having said this, he stayed on in the Galil.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he too went up, not publicly but in secret.

At the festival, the Judeans were looking for him. “Where is he?” they asked.

And among the crowds there was much whispering about him. Some said, “He’s a good man”; but others said, “No, he is deceiving the masses.”

However, no one spoke about him openly, for fear of the Judeans.

Not until the festival was half over did Yeshua go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach.

The festival of Shavu‘ot arrived, and the believers all gathered together in one place.

Suddenly there came a sound from the sky like the roar of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them.

They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.

Now there were staying in Yerushalayim religious Jews from every nation under heaven.

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, performed great miracles and signs among the people.

But opposition arose from members of the Synagogue of the Freed Slaves (as it was called), composed of Cyrenians, Alexandrians and people from Cilicia and the province of Asia. They argued with Stephen,

but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by which he spoke.

So they secretly persuaded some men to allege, “We heard him speak blasphemously against Moshe and against God.”

They stirred up the people, as well as the elders and the Torah-teachers; so they came and arrested him and led him before the Sanhedrin.

There they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the Torah;

for we have heard him say that Yeshua from Natzeret will destroy this place and will change the customs Moshe handed down to us.”