Quotes About Sacrifice

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

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.

At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ëDid you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

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.”

Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.

But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!

The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”

For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.

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

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

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

We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,

Then I heard a voice saying to me, ëGet up, Peter, kill and eat.í

He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.

And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a sacrifice along with the crowds.

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul found out about this, they tore their clothes and rushed into the crowd, shouting,