Acts 17:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also, and stirred up the people.

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  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
  • Prov 15:18 : 18 A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms strife.
  • Prov 28:25 : 25 He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in the LORD shall be made prosperous.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Luke 12:51 : 51 Do you suppose that I have come to give peace on earth? I tell you, No; but rather division.
  • Acts 6:12 : 12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council.
  • Acts 14:2 : 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren.
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews who did not believe, moved with envy, took certain troublemakers from the marketplace, and gathered a mob, set all the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
  • Acts 21:27 : 27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
  • 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

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  • Acts 17:4-12
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    4And some of them believed, and joined Paul and Silas; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and many leading women.

    5But the Jews who did not believe, moved with envy, took certain troublemakers from the marketplace, and gathered a mob, set all the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

    6And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too;

    7Jason has welcomed them: and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king—Jesus.

    8And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.

    9And when they had taken security from Jason and the others, they let them go.

    10And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea: who, when they arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

    11These were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

    12Therefore many of them believed; also many honorable Greek women, and numerous men.

  • Acts 17:1-2
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    1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews:

    2And Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the scriptures,

  • Acts 13:50-51
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    50But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their district.

    51But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

  • Acts 14:1-2
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    1And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spoke in such a way that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.

    2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren.

  • Acts 17:14-17
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    14And immediately the brothers sent Paul away to go to the sea: but Silas and Timothy stayed there still.

    15And those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens: and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.

    16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he saw the city was fully given to idolatry.

    17Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.

  • Acts 16:20
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    20And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city,

  • Acts 18:12-13
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    12And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

    13saying, 'This man persuades people to worship God contrary to the law.'

  • Acts 13:42-45
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    42And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

    43Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

    44And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

    45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

  • Acts 21:27
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    27And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,

  • Acts 19:28-30
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    28And when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

    29And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theater.

    30And when Paul wanted to go in to the people, the disciples would not allow him.

  • Acts 14:5-7
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    5And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers to mistreat and stone them,

    6They became aware of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region,

    7And there they preached the gospel.

  • Acts 19:23
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    23And at that time, there arose no small commotion about the Way.

  • Acts 14:18-19
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    18And with these sayings, they barely kept the people from sacrificing to them.

    19Then certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the people, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

  • Acts 18:5
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    5And when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

  • Acts 21:30-31
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    30And all the city was disturbed, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut.

    31And as they went about to kill him, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

  • Acts 13:14-15
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    14But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

    15And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak on.

  • Acts 25:7
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    7And when he arrived, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many serious charges against Paul, which they could not prove.

  • Acts 6:12
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    12They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council.

  • Acts 28:17
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    17After three days, Paul called the leaders of the Jews together. When they had come together, he said to them, Men and brethren, though I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

  • Acts 19:32
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    32Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and most did not know why they had come together.

  • Acts 11:22
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    22Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem; and they sent Barnabas to go as far as Antioch.

  • Acts 14:21
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    21And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

  • Acts 14:14
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    14But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out

  • Acts 17:21
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    21For all the Athenians and foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear some new thing.

  • Acts 8:4
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    4Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word.