Quotes About Courage

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this manís blood.”

But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

but they could not stand up to his wisdom or the Spirit by whom he spoke.

So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,

All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.

On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.

But Ananias answered, “Lord, many people have told me about this man and all the harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.

All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isnít this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasnít he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.

One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.

So Saul stayed with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.

He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.

So get up! Go downstairs and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”

About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.