Acts 18:16
Then he had them forced away from the judgment seat.
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- Ps 76:10 : 10 Certainly your angry judgment upon men will bring you praise; you reveal your anger in full measure.
- Rom 13:3-4 : 3 (for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation 4 because it is God’s servant for your well-being. But be afraid if you do wrong because government does not bear the sword for nothing. It is God’s servant to administer punishment on the person who does wrong.
- Rev 12:16 : 16 but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.
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17 So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.
- Acts 18:11-155 verses80%
11 So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12 Paul Before the Proconsul Gallio Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,
13 saying,“This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!”
14 But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews,“If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,
15 but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”
- Acts 16:19-235 verses74%
19 But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.
20 When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said,“These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews
21 and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.”
22 The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
23 After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.
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17 So after they came back here with me, I did not postpone the case, but the next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought.
- Acts 16:37-393 verses70%
37 But Paul said to the police officers,“They had us beaten in public without a proper trial– even though we are Roman citizens– and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!”
38 The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas were Roman citizens
39 and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.
- Acts 22:21-244 verses70%
21 Then he said to me,‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
22 The Roman Commander Questions Paul The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted,“Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!”
23 While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,
24 the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.
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29 They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.
- Acts 17:8-92 verses69%
8 They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.
9 After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.
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57 But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.
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36 for a crowd of people followed them, screaming,“Away with him!”
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32 He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
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6 He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him.
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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.
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35 At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying,“Release those men.”
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6 After Festus had stayed not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought.
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5 When both the Gentiles and the Jews(together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,
6 Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.
- Acts 19:40-412 verses68%
40 For we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause we can give to explain this disorderly gathering.”
41 After he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.
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33 So Paul left the Areopagus.
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6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
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38 If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against someone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another there.
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30 So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,
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29 The 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.
- Acts 19:32-332 verses67%
32 So 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.
33 Some of the crowd concluded it was about Alexander because the Jews had pushed him to the front. Alexander, gesturing with his hand, was wanting to make a defense before the public assembly.
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1 Paul and Silas at Thessalonica After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
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15 When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.
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13 When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called“The Stone Pavement”(Gabbatha in Aramaic).
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30 The 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.
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19 I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.
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50 But 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.
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18 Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.
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11 I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.