Acts 19:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.

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  • Prov 16:7 : 7 When a person’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.
  • Acts 16:6 : 6 Paul’s Vision of the Macedonian Man They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.
  • Acts 19:10 : 10 This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.
  • Acts 21:12 : 12 When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

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  • Acts 19:29-30
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    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 24:23
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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.

  • Acts 19:32-33
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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.

    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 23:30-31
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    30When I was informed there would be a plot against this man, I sent him to you at once, also ordering his accusers to state their charges against him before you.

    31So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.

  • Acts 20:4
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    4Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.

  • Acts 23:10
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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.

  • Acts 25:2-3
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    2So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.

    3Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

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

  • Acts 21:29-32
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    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.

  • Acts 23:17-21
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    17Paul called one of the centurions and said,“Take this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”

    18So the centurion took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said,“The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”

    19The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked,“What is it that you want to report to me?”

    20He replied,“The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire more thoroughly about him.

    21So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

  • Acts 19:22
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    22So after sending two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.

  • Acts 23:15
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    15So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place.”

  • 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 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 22:29-30
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    29Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up.

    30Paul Before the Sanhedrin The next day, because the commanding officer wanted to know the true reason Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole council to assemble. He then brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

  • Acts 26:30
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    30So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,

  • Acts 24:18-19
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    18which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

    19But there are some Jews from the province of Asia who should be here before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

  • Acts 25:15
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    15When 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.

  • Acts 27:1-3
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    1Paul and Company Sail for Rome When it was decided we would sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.

    2We went on board a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to various ports along the coast of the province of Asia and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

    3The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius, treating Paul kindly, allowed him to go to his friends so they could provide him with what he needed.

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

  • Acts 21:19
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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.

  • Acts 16:38-39
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    38The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas were Roman citizens

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

  • Acts 28:15
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    15The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.

  • Acts 19:40
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    40For we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause we can give to explain this disorderly gathering.”

  • Acts 18:27
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    27When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,

  • Acts 17:4
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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.

  • Acts 25:23
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    23Paul Before King Agrippa and Bernice So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall, along with the senior military officers and the prominent men of the city. When Festus gave the order, Paul was brought in.

  • Acts 18:12
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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,

  • Acts 21:34
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    34But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks.

  • Acts 23:24
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    24and provide mounts for Paul to ride so that he may be brought safely to Felix the governor.”

  • Acts 27:43
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    43But the centurion, wanting to save Paul’s life, prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

  • Acts 20:18
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    18When they arrived, he said to them,“You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

  • Acts 25:20
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    20Because I was at a loss how I could investigate these matters, I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.