When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.

So they left the town and began coming to him.

And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

The priest of the temple of Zeus, located just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.

Then the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out of the winepress up to the height of horses’ bridles for a distance of almost two hundred miles.

The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or that town.

“For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.