Acts 17:13

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But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.

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  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, urged on by his wife Jezebel.
  • Prov 15:18 : 18 A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.
  • Prov 28:25 : 25 The greedy person stirs up dissension, but the one who trusts in the LORD will prosper.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
  • Luke 12:51 : 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!
  • Acts 6:12 : 12 They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.
  • Acts 14:2 : 2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.
  • Acts 21:27 : 27 When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
  • 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews, 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people, 16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

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  • Acts 17:4-12
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    4Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

    5But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

    6When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming,“These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,

    7and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”

    8They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.

    9After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.

    10Paul and Silas at Berea The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

    11These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.

    12Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

  • Acts 17:1-2
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    1Paul and Silas at Thessalonica After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

    2Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,

  • Acts 13:50-51
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    50But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.

    51So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

  • Acts 14:1-2
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    1Paul and Barnabas at Iconium The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

    2But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

  • Acts 17:14-17
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    14Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

    15Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

    16Paul at Athens While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.

    17So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.

  • Acts 16:20
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    20When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said,“These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews

  • Acts 18:12-13
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    12Paul Before the Proconsul Gallio Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,

    13saying,“This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!”

  • Acts 13:42-45
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    42As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.

    43When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

    44On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

    45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

  • Acts 21:27
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    27When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

  • Acts 19:28-30
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    28When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout,“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

    29The city was filled with the uproar, and the crowd rushed to the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.

    30But when Paul wanted to enter the public assembly, the disciples would not let him.

  • Acts 14:5-7
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    5When both the Gentiles and the Jews(together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

    6Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.

    7There they continued to proclaim the good news.

  • Acts 19:23
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    23At that time a great disturbance took place concerning the Way.

  • Acts 14:18-19
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    18Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

    19But 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.

  • Acts 18:5
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    5Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

  • Acts 21:30-31
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    30The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

    31While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

  • Acts 13:14-15
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    14Moving on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

    15After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent them a message, saying,“Brothers, if you have any message of exhortation for the people, speak it.”

  • Acts 25:7
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    7When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they were not able to prove.

  • Acts 6:12
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    12They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.

  • Acts 28:17
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    17Paul Addresses the Jewish Community in Rome After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them,“Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.

  • Acts 19:32
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    32So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.

  • Acts 11:22
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    22A report about them came to the attention of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

  • Acts 14:21
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    21Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.

  • Acts 14:14
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    14But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,

  • Acts 17:21
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    21(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

  • Acts 8:4
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    4Philip Preaches in Samaria Now those who had been forced to scatter went around proclaiming the good news of the word.