TSK · John 16:2

They say,‘Keep to yourself! Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’ These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

They brought forward false witnesses who said,“This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

The Conversion of Saul Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest

I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.