Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Natan’el answered him, “Natzeret? Can anything good come from there?” “Come and see,” Philip said to him.

Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants and to bring his work to completion.

Don’t you have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest’? Well, what I say to you is: open your eyes and look at the fields! They’re already ripe for harvest!

Don’t work for the food which passes away but for the food that stays on into eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For this is the one on whom God the Father has put his seal.”

As long as it is day, we must keep doing the work of the One who sent me; the night is coming, when no one can work.

They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving God!

very annoyed that they were teaching the people the doctrine of resurrection from the dead and offering Yeshua as proof.

Then Kefa, filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

If we are being examined today about a good deed done for a disabled person, if you want to know how he was restored to health,

then let it be known to you and to all the people of Isra’el that it is in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua from Natzeret, whom you had executed on a stake as a criminal but whom God has raised from the dead, that this man stands before you perfectly healed.

“This Yeshua is the stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone.

There is salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!”

When they saw how bold Kefa and Yochanan were, even though they were untrained ‘am-ha’aretz, they were amazed; also they recognized them as having been with Yeshua.

So they called them in again and ordered them under no circumstances to speak or teach in the name of Yeshua.

But Kefa and Yochanan answered, “You must judge whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God.

As for us, we can’t help talking about what we have actually seen and heard.”

While they were still praying, the place where they were gathered was shaken. They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, and they spoke God’s message with boldness.

With great power the emissaries continued testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, and they were all held in high regard.

After hearing that, they entered the Temple area about dawn and began to teach. Now the cohen hagadol and his associates came and called a meeting of the Sanhedrin (that is, of Isra’el’s whole assembly of elders) and sent to the jail to have them brought.

Then someone came and reported to them, “Listen! The men you ordered put in prison are standing in the Temple court, teaching the people!”

Kefa and the other emissaries answered, “We must obey God, not men.

The God of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whereas you men killed him by having him hanged on a stake.

God has exalted this man at his right hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven.

We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

And not for a single day, either in the Temple court or in private homes, did they stop teaching and proclaiming the Good News that Yeshua is the Messiah.