Acts 17:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 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.

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  • Acts 17:4-8
    5 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Acts 17:10
    80%

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

  • Acts 16:35-40
    6 verses
    80%

    35When it was day, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, Let those men go.

    36So the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go; therefore depart and go in peace.

    37But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly, uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they press us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out.

    38And the officers told these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.

    39Then they came and pleaded with them and brought them out, and asked them to depart from the city.

    40So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.

  • Acts 15:33
    76%

    33And after they had stayed there for a time, they were sent back with greetings from the brethren to the apostles.

  • Acts 16:22-24
    3 verses
    75%

    22Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

    23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.

    24Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

  • Acts 17:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13But 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.

    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.

  • Acts 17:1
    73%

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

  • Acts 16:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19When her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers.

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

  • Acts 21:29-32
    4 verses
    71%

    29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

    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.

    32Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

  • Acts 14:6
    71%

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

  • Acts 17:33
    71%

    33So Paul departed from among them.

  • Acts 22:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29Then immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him; and the chief captain also was afraid, after he realized he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

    30On the next day, because he wanted to know for certain why he was accused by the Jews, he released him from his bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

  • Acts 23:10
    70%

    10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing that Paul might be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

  • Acts 4:23
    70%

    23And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

  • Acts 4:21
    70%

    21So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, since all glorified God for what had been done.

  • Acts 19:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    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 5:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22But when the officers came and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,

    23Saying, We found the prison truly shut securely, and the guards standing outside before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.

  • Acts 5:40
    69%

    40And they agreed with him: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

  • Acts 28:16-18
    3 verses
    69%

    16And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

    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.

    18When they had examined me, they wanted to release me, because there was no cause for putting me to death.

  • Acts 9:30
    69%

    30And when the brothers found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsus.

  • Acts 14:18
    68%

    18And with these sayings, they barely kept the people from sacrificing to them.

  • Acts 26:30
    68%

    30And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them:

  • Acts 23:31
    68%

    31Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

  • Acts 18:12
    68%

    12And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

  • Mark 11:6
    68%

    6And they said to them just as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.

  • Acts 24:7
    68%

    7But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great force took him away out of our hands,

  • Acts 16:30
    68%

    30And brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

  • Acts 16:26
    68%

    26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.