Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

but we ourselves will give our full attention to praying and to serving the Word.”

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

However, those who were scattered announced the Good News of the Word wherever they went.

But when they came to believe Philip, as he announced the Good News concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Yeshua the Messiah, they were immersed, both men and women.

Then, after giving a thorough witness and speaking the Word of the Lord, Kefa and Yochanan started back to Yerushalayim, announcing the Good News to many villages in Shomron.

As Philip ran up, he heard the Ethiopian reading from Yesha‘yahu the prophet. “Do you understand what you’re reading?” he asked.

Then Philip started to speak — beginning with that passage, he went on to tell him the Good News about Yeshua.

But Philip showed up at Ashdod and continued proclaiming the Good News as he went through all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

and immediately he began proclaiming in the synagogues that Yeshua is the Son of God.

All who heard him were amazed. They asked, “Isn’t he the man who in Yerushalayim was trying to destroy the people who call on this name? In fact, isn’t that why he came here, to arrest them and bring them back to the head cohanim?”

But Sha’ul was being filled with more and more power and was creating an uproar among the Jews living in Dammesek with his proofs that Yeshua is the Messiah.

Quite some time later, the non-believing Jews gathered together and made plans to kill him;

but their plot became known to Sha’ul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to do away with him;

but under cover of night, his talmidim took him and let him down over the city wall, lowering him in a large basket.

On reaching Yerushalayim, he tried to join the talmidim; but they were all afraid of him — they didn’t believe he was a talmid.

However, Bar-Nabba got hold of him and took him to the emissaries. He told them how Sha’ul had seen the Lord while traveling, that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Dammesek Sha’ul had spoken out boldly in the name of Yeshua.

So he remained with them and went all over Yerushalayim continuing to speak out boldly in the name of the Lord.

He talked and debated with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they began making attempts to kill him.

“Then he commanded us to proclaim and attest to the Jewish people that this man has been appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.

Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution which had arisen over Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch; they spoke God’s word, but only to Jews.

However, some of these, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, when they arrived at Antioch, began speaking to the Greeks too, proclaiming the Good News of the Lord Yeshua.

for he was a good man, full of the Ruach HaKodesh and trust.

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. They met with the congregation there for a whole year and taught a sizeable crowd. Also it was in Antioch that the talmidim for the first time were called “Messianic.”

So Sha’ul stood, motioned with his hand, and said: “Men of Isra’el and God-fearers, listen!

The God of this people Isra’el chose our fathers. He made the people great during the time when they were living as aliens in Egypt and with a stretched-out arm he led them out of that land.