Acts 19:30

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

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  • 2 Sam 18:2-3 : 2 David then sent out the army– a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops,“I too will indeed march out with you.” 3 But the soldiers replied,“You should not do this! For if we should have to make a rapid retreat, they won’t be too concerned about us. Even if half of us should die, they won’t be too concerned about us. But you are like ten thousand of us! So it is better if you remain in the city for support.”
  • 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying,“You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”
  • Acts 14:14-18 : 14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting, 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them. 16 In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways, 17 yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.” 18 Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.
  • Acts 17:22-31 : 22 So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said,“Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects. 23 For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone. 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, 27 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,‘For we too are his offspring.’ 29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination. 30 Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
  • Acts 21:39 : 39 Paul answered,“I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Please allow me to speak to the people.”

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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.

  • Acts 19:31-33
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    31Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.

    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.

    33Some 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.

  • Acts 14:18-20
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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.

    20But after the disciples had surrounded him, he got up and went back into the city. On the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

  • Acts 21:12-14
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    12When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

    13Then Paul replied,“What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

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  • Acts 21:27-32
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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,

    28shouting,“Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!”

    29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

    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.

    32He 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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    4After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

  • Acts 18:19-20
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    19When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.

    20When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,

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    7When they came to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to do this,

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    10When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

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    23He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.

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    33So Paul left the Areopagus.

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  • Acts 19:9
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    9But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

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  • Acts 21:36
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    36for a crowd of people followed them, screaming,“Away with him!”

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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 28:16-17
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    16When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

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    31proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.

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    39and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

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    13But 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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    37But 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!”

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    19When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

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    4But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

    5When both the Gentiles and the Jews(together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

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    23At that time a great disturbance took place concerning the Way.

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    19But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

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

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    16For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.