Syria

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her cargo.

Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.” — read the full passage →

having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. — read the full passage →

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you. — read the full passage →

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? — read the full passage →

Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. — read the full passage →

He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. — read the full passage →

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, — read the full passage →

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. — read the full passage →

From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice. — read the full passage →

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →