Acts 17:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

But the Iewes which beleeued not, mooued with enuie, tooke vnto them certaine vagabonds and wicked felowes, and whe they had assembled the multitude, they made a tumult in the citie, and made assault against the house of Iason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 17:13 : 13 But when the Iewes of Thessalonica knewe, that the woord of God was also preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, & mooued the people.
  • Rom 16:21 : 21 Timotheus my helper, and Lucius, and Iason, and Sosipater my kinsemen, salute you.
  • Judg 9:4 : 4 And they gaue him seuentie pieces of siluer out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vayne and light fellowes which followed him.
  • Acts 17:7 : 7 Whom Iason hath receiued, and these all doe against the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another King, one Iesus.
  • Job 30:1-9 : 1 Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes. 2 For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them? 3 For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste. 4 They cut vp nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate. 5 They were chased forth fro among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe. 6 Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes. 7 They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues. 8 They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth. 9 And now am I their song, and I am their talke. 10 They abhorre me, & flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.
  • Ps 35:15 : 15 But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 They that sate in the gate, spake of mee, and the drunkardes sang of me.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 A sounde heart is the life of the flesh: but enuie is the rotting of the bones.
  • Isa 26:11 : 11 O Lorde, they will not beholde thine hie hande: but they shall see it, and bee confounded with the zeale of the people, and the fire of thine enemies shall deuoure them.
  • Matt 27:18 : 18 (For he knewe well, that for enuie they had deliuered him.
  • Acts 7:9 : 9 And the Patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
  • Acts 13:45 : 45 But when the Iewes saw the people, they were full of enuie, and spake against those things, which were spoken of Paul, contrarying them, and railing on them.
  • Acts 14:2 : 2 And the vnbeleeuing Iewes stirred vp, and corrupted the mindes of the Gentiles against the brethren.
  • Acts 14:19 : 19 Then there came certaine Iewes from Antiochia and Iconium, which when they had persuaded the people, stoned Paul, and drewe him out of the citie, supposing he had bene dead.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For yee are yet carnall: for whereas there is among you enuying, and strife, and diuisions, are ye not carnall, and walke as men?
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 Enuie, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonie, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also haue tolde you before, that they which doe such things, shall not inherite the kingdome of God.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let vs not be desirous of vaine glorie, prouoking one another, enuying one another.
  • 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For brethren, ye are become folowers of the Churches of God, which in Iudea are in Christ Iesus, because ye haue also suffred the same things of your owne countrey men, euen as they haue of the Iewes, 15 Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men, 16 And forbid vs to preach vnto the Gentiles, that they might be saued, to fulfill their sinnes alwayes: for the wrath of God is come on them, to the vtmost.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?
  • Acts 18:12 : 12 Now when Gallio was Deputie of Achaia, the Iewes arose with one accorde against Paul, and brought him to the iudgement seate,
  • Acts 19:24-34 : 24 For a certaine man named Demetrius a siluersmith, which made siluer temples of Diana, brought great gaines vnto the craftesmen, 25 Whom he called together, with the workemen of like things, and saide, Syrs, ye knowe that by this craft we haue our goods: 26 Moreouer ye see and heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded, and turned away much people, saying, That they be not gods which are made with handes. 27 So that not onely this thing is dangerous vnto vs, that this our portion shall be reproued, but also that the temple of the great goddesse Diana should be nothing esteemed, and that it would come to passe that her magnificence, which all Asia & the world worshippeth, should be destroyed. 28 Now when they heard it, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. 29 And the whole citie was full of confusion, and they rushed into the common place with one assent, and caught Gaius, and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, and Pauls companions of his iourney. 30 And when Paul would haue entred in vnto the people, the disciples suffred him not. 31 Certaine also of the chiefe of Asia which were his friendes, sent vnto him, desiring him that hee woulde not present him selfe in the Common place. 32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assemblie was out of order, and the more part knewe not wherefore they were come together. 33 And some of the company drew foorth Alexander, the Iewes thrusting him forwards. Alexander then beckened with the hande, and woulde haue excused the matter to the people. 34 But when they knew that he was a Iewe, there arose a shoute almost for the space of two houres, of all men crying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
  • Acts 19:40 : 40 For we are euen in ieopardie to be accused of this dayes sedition, for as much as there is no cause, whereby we may giue a reason of this concourse of people.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Acts 17:6-10
    5 verses
    85%

    6But when they found them not, they drew Iason & certaine brethren vnto the heads of the citie, crying, These are they which haue subuerted the state of the world, and here they are,

    7Whom Iason hath receiued, and these all doe against the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another King, one Iesus.

    8Then they troubled the people, and the heads of the citie, when they heard these things.

    9Notwithstanding when they had receiued sufficient assurance of Iason and of the other, they let them goe.

    10And the brethren immediatly sent away Paul and Silas by night vnto Berea, which when they were come thither, entred into ye Synagogue of the Iewes.

  • Acts 17:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12Therefore many of them beleeued, and of honest women, which were Grecians, and men not a fewe.

    13But when the Iewes of Thessalonica knewe, that the woord of God was also preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, & mooued the people.

  • Acts 14:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1And it came to passe in Iconium, that they went both together into the Synagogue of the Iewes, & so spake, that a great multitude both of the Iewes and of the Grecians beleeued.

    2And the vnbeleeuing Iewes stirred vp, and corrupted the mindes of the Gentiles against the brethren.

  • Acts 16:19-20
    2 verses
    77%

    19Nowe when her masters sawe that the hope of their gaine was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drewe them into the market place vnto the Magistrates,

    20And brought them to the gouernours, saying, These men which are Iewes, trouble our citie,

  • Acts 13:44-45
    2 verses
    77%

    44And ye next Sabbath day came almost the whole citie together, to heare the worde of God.

    45But when the Iewes saw the people, they were full of enuie, and spake against those things, which were spoken of Paul, contrarying them, and railing on them.

  • Acts 13:50-51
    2 verses
    76%

    50But the Iewes stirred certaine deuout & honourable women, and the chiefe men of the citie, and raised persecution against Paul & Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coastes.

    51But they shooke off the dust of their feete against them, and came vnto Iconium.

  • Acts 17:4
    74%

    4And some of them beleeued, and ioyned in companie with Paul and Silas: also of the Grecians that feared God a great multitude, and of the chiefe women not a fewe.

  • Acts 14:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4But the multitude of the city was deuided: and some were with the Iewes, and some with the Apostles.

    5And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and of the Iewes with their rulers, to doe them violence, and to stone them,

    6They were ware of it, and fled vnto Lystra, and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and vnto the region round about,

  • Acts 19:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28Now when they heard it, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

    29And the whole citie was full of confusion, and they rushed into the common place with one assent, and caught Gaius, and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, and Pauls companions of his iourney.

  • Acts 21:27-31
    5 verses
    73%

    27And when the seuen dayes were almost ended, the Iewes which were of Asia (when they sawe him in the Temple) moued all the people, and laide hands on him,

    28Crying, Men of Israel, helpe: this is the man that teacheth all men euery where against the people, and the Lawe, and this place: moreouer, he hath brought Grecians into the Temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

    29For they had seene before Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the citie, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the Temple.

    30Then all the citie was moued, and the people ran together: and they tooke Paul and drewe him out of the Temple, and forth with the doores were shut.

    31But as they went about to kill him, tydings came vnto the chiefe captaine of the band, that all Hierusalem was on an vproare.

  • Acts 6:12
    73%

    12Thus they mooued the people & the Elders, and the Scribes: and running vpon him, caught him, and brought him to the Councill,

  • Acts 18:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12Now when Gallio was Deputie of Achaia, the Iewes arose with one accorde against Paul, and brought him to the iudgement seate,

    13Saying, This fellow persuadeth me to worship God otherwise then the Lawe appointeth.

  • Acts 17:1
    71%

    1Nowe as they passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a Synagogue of the Iewes.

  • Acts 19:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

    32Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assemblie was out of order, and the more part knewe not wherefore they were come together.

    33And some of the company drew foorth Alexander, the Iewes thrusting him forwards. Alexander then beckened with the hande, and woulde haue excused the matter to the people.

  • Acts 16:22
    71%

    22The people also rose vp together against them, and the gouernours rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes.

  • Acts 5:17
    70%

    17Then the chiefe Priest rose vp, and all they that were with him (which was the sect of the Sadduces) and were full of indignation,

  • Acts 25:7
    70%

    7And when hee was come, the Iewes which were come fro Hierusalem, stoode about him and layd many and grieuous complaints against Paul, whereof they could make no plaine proofe,

  • 1 Thess 2:15
    70%

    15Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men,

  • Luke 4:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28Then all that were in the Synagogue, when they heard it, were filled with wrath,

    29And rose vp, and thrust him out of the citie, and led him vnto the edge of the hil, whereon their citie was built, to cast him downe headlong.

  • Acts 14:19
    70%

    19Then there came certaine Iewes from Antiochia and Iconium, which when they had persuaded the people, stoned Paul, and drewe him out of the citie, supposing he had bene dead.

  • Acts 24:5
    70%

    5Certainely we haue found this man a pestilent fellowe, and a moouer of sedition among all the Iewes throughout the world, and a chiefe maintainer of the secte of the Nazarites:

  • Acts 23:10
    69%

    10And when there was a great dissension, the chiefe captaine, fearing lest Paul should haue bene pulled in pieces of them, commaunded the souldiers to go downe, and take him from among them, and to bring him into the castel.

  • Acts 28:17
    69%

    17And the third day after, Paul called the chiefe of the Iewes together: and when they were come, he said vnto them, Men and brethren, though I haue committed nothing against the people, or Lawes of the fathers, yet was I deliuered prisoner from Hierusalem into the handes of the Romanes.

  • Acts 18:17
    68%

    17Then tooke al the Grecians Sosthenes the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, and beat him before the iudgement seat: but Gallio cared nothing for those things.

  • Acts 24:7
    68%

    7But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him out of our handes,

  • Acts 19:37
    68%

    37For yee haue brought hither these men, which haue neither committed sacrilege, neither doe blaspheme your goddesse.

  • Acts 16:39
    68%

    39Then came they and praied them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the citie.

  • Acts 26:21
    68%

    21For this cause the Iewes caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me.

  • Acts 5:26
    68%

    26Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence (for they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned)

  • Acts 6:9
    68%

    9Then there arose certaine of the Synagogue, which are called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and of Alexandria, & of them of Cilicia, and of Asia, and disputed with Steuen.

  • Acts 19:17
    68%

    17And this was knowen to all the Iewes and Grecians also, which dwelt at Ephesus, and feare came on them all, and the Name of the Lord Iesus was magnified,