Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Yeshua the resurrection from the dead.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and Yochanan, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Yeshua.

They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Yeshua.

But Peter and Yochanan answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

With great power, the emissaries gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua. Great grace was on them all.

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”

But Peter and the emissaries answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming Yeshua, the Messiah.