Quotes About Testimony

They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.

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

Now Stephen, who was full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

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

where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

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

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

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

At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together 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.

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

And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.

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

I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”

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?”

But Saul was empowered all the more, and he confounded the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

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

Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and described how Saul had seen the Lord, who spoke to him on the road to Damascus, and how Saul had spoken boldly in that city in the name of Jesus.

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

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.

and all who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.