Epic Bible Sampler - Flipbook - Page 25
THE BELIEVERS WERE SCATTERED THROUGH
THE REGIONS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
WE HAVE FORCED MANY
JESUS FOLLOWERS FROM
JERUSALEM.
THEY PREACHED THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS WHEREVER
THEY WENT—THEREBY FULFILLING THE WORDS OF JESUS:
YOU WILL
BE MY WITNESSES . . . IN
JERUSALEM, THROUGHOUT JUDEA,
IN SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS
OF THE EARTH.
BUT THEY SCATTER
THEIR BLASPHEMY
WHEREVER THEY GO.
YOU MUST
CLOSE THEIR
MOUTHS.
GIVE
ME THE PAPERS
I NEED SO I
CAN TRAVEL TO
DAMASCUS.
IF I CAN
STOP THEM THERE,
PERHAPS THEIR
MOVEMENT WILL DIE
WITH THEM.
DAMASCUS: THE CENTER
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE’S
CARAVAN TRADING
SAUL KNEW THAT IF HE DIDN’T STOP IT
THERE, THE MOVEMENT CALLED THE WAY
COULD SPREAD TO MESOPOTAMIA . . .
. . . OR EVEN TO ROME!
ACTS 1:8; 9:1-2; 26:9-11
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