Editing Saint Paul (section)

== Notable passages from Acts regarding Paul ==

=== Acts 6: Accusation against Stephen ===
<blockquote>They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him. The witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/7?58 Acts 7:58])</blockquote>

=== Acts 15: Council of Jerusalem ===
<blockquote>And God, who knows the heart, bore witness by granting them the holy Spirit just as he did us. He made no distinction between us and them, for by faith he purified their hearts. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/15:8 Acts 15:8-9])</blockquote>

=== Acts 16: Paul in Athens & Paul’s Speech at the Areopagus ===
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he grew exasperated at the sight of the city full of idols. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/17?16 Acts 17:16])

=== Acts 18: Paul in Corinth ===

=== Acts 22: Paul’s Defense before the Jerusalem Jews ===
[https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/22 Acts Ch. 22]<blockquote>“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. At the feet of Gamaliel I was educated strictly in our ancestral law and was zealous for God, just as all of you are today. I persecuted this Way to death, binding both men and women and delivering them to prison. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/22:3 Acts 22:3-4)]</blockquote><blockquote>Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: “You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/17?22 Acts 17:22-23])</blockquote>

=== Acts 22: Paul before the Sanhedrin. ===
Paul divides the Pharisees and the Sadducees, [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/23?6 Acts 23:6-11]:<blockquote>Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; [I] am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”</blockquote>When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the group became divided.<blockquote>For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection or angels or spirits, while the Pharisees acknowledge all three.

A great uproar occurred, and some scribes belonging to the Pharisee party stood up and sharply argued, “We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

The dispute was so serious that the commander, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, ordered his troops to go down and rescue him from their midst and take him into the compound.

The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage. For just as you have borne witness to my cause in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness in Rome.”</blockquote>