Acts 19:40

Geneva Bible (1560)

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 1:41 : 41 And Adoniiah and all the ghestes that were with him, heard it: (and they had made an ende of eating) and when Ioab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, What meaneth this noise and vprore in the citie?
  • Matt 26:5 : 5 But they sayd, Not on the feast day, least any vprore be among the people.
  • Acts 17:5-8 : 5 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. 6 But 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, 7 Whom Iason hath receiued, and these all doe against the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another King, one Iesus. 8 Then they troubled the people, and the heads of the citie, when they heard these things.
  • Acts 20:1 : 1 Nowe after the tumult was appeased, Paul called the disciples vnto him, and embraced them, and departed to goe into Macedonia.
  • Acts 21:31 : 31 But as they went about to kill him, tydings came vnto the chiefe captaine of the band, that all Hierusalem was on an vproare.
  • Acts 21:38 : 38 Art not thou the Egyptian who before these dayes raised a sedition, and led out into the wildernesse foure thousande men that were murtherers?

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  • Acts 19:36-39
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    36Seeing then that no man can speake against these things, ye ought to be appeased, and to doe nothing rashly.

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

    38Wherefore, if Demetrius and the craftes men which are with him, haue a matter against any man, the lawe is open, and there are Deputies: let them accuse one another.

    39But if ye inquire any thing cocerning other matters, it may be determined in a lawful assembly.

  • Acts 19:41
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    41And when he had thus spoken, hee let the assembly depart.

  • Acts 19:32-33
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    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 24:18-21
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    18At what time, certaine Iewes of Asia founde mee purified in the Temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

    19Who ought to haue bene present before thee, and accuse me, if they had ought against me.

    20Or let these themselues say, if they haue found any vniust thing in mee, while I stoode in the Council,

    21Except it be for this one voyce, that I cried standing among them, Of the resurrection of the dead am I accused of you this day.

  • Acts 4:15-16
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    15Then they commaunded them to goe aside out of the Council, and conferred among themselues,

    16Saying, What shall we doe to these men? For surely a manifest signe is done by them, and it is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Hierusalem: and we cannot denie it.

  • Acts 24:6-8
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    6And hath gone about to pollute the Temple: therefore wee tooke him, and woulde haue iudged him according to our Lawe:

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

    8Commanding his accusers to come to thee: of whom thou mayest (if thou wilt inquire) know all these things whereof we accuse him.

  • Acts 28:21-22
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    21Then they saide vnto him, We neither receiued letters out of Iudea concerning thee, neither came any of the brethren that shewed or spake any euill of thee.

    22But we will heare of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we knowe that euery where it is spoken against.

  • Acts 23:15
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    15Nowe therefore, ye and the Council signifie to the chiefe captaine, that hee bring him foorth vnto you to morow: as though you would know some thing more perfectly of him, and we, or euer he come neere, will be readie to kill him.

  • Acts 21:34
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    34And one cryed this, another that, among the people. So when he could not know the certeintie for the tumult, he commaunded him to be led into the castell.

  • Acts 16:20-22
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    20And brought them to the gouernours, saying, These men which are Iewes, trouble our citie,

    21And preache ordinances, which are not lawfull for vs to receiue, neither to obserue, seeing we are Romanes.

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

  • Acts 19:23
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    23And the same time there arose no small trouble about that way.

  • Acts 17:20
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    20For thou bringest certaine strange thinges vnto our eares: we woulde knowe therefore, what these things meane.

  • Acts 19:28-29
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    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 16:37-38
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    37Then sayde Paul vnto them, After that they haue beaten vs openly vncodemned, which are Romanes, they haue cast vs into prison, and nowe would they put vs out priuily? nay verely: but let them come and bring vs out.

    38And the sergeants tolde these woordes vnto the gouernours, who feared whe they heard that they were Romanes.

  • Acts 17:8
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    8Then they troubled the people, and the heads of the citie, when they heard these things.

  • Acts 25:16-17
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    16To whome I answered, that it is not the maner of the Romanes for fauour to deliuer any man to the death, before that hee which is accused, haue the accusers before him, and haue place to defend himselfe, concerning the crime.

    17Therefore when they were come hither, without delay the day following I sate on the iudgement seate, and commaunded the man to be brought foorth.

  • Acts 4:20-21
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    20For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.

    21So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.

  • Acts 23:28-29
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    28And when I would haue knowen the cause, wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their Council.

    29There I perceiued that hee was accused of questions of their Lawe, but had no crime worthy of death, or of bondes.

  • Acts 5:23
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    23Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

  • Acts 28:17-19
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    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.

    18Who when they had examined me, would haue let me goe, because there was no cause of death in me.

    19But when the Iewes spake contrary, I was constrained to appeale vnto Cesar, not because I had ought to accuse my nation of.

  • Acts 24:2
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    2And when he was called foorth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that we haue obtained great quietnesse through thee, and that many worthy things are done vnto this nation through thy prouidence,

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    9Then there was a great crye: and the Scribes of the Pharises part rose vp, and stroue, saying, Wee finde none euill in this man: but if a spirit or an Angel hath spoken to him, let vs not fight against God.

    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 24:12
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    12And they neither found mee in the Temple disputing with any man, neither making vproare among the people, neither in the Synagogues, nor in the citie.

  • Acts 21:30-31
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    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.

  • Matt 28:14
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    14And if this matter come before the gouernour to be heard, we will perswade him, and so vse the matter that you shall not neede to care.

  • Acts 21:36
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    36For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

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    25Whom he called together, with the workemen of like things, and saide, Syrs, ye knowe that by this craft we haue our goods:

  • 1 Cor 15:30
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    30Why are wee also in ieopardie euery houre?