Acts 25:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

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  • Acts 23:29 : 29 I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.
  • Acts 18:15 : 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 18:19 : 19 When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.
  • Acts 25:7 : 7 When 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 26:22-23 : 22 I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen: 23 that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”
  • 1 Cor 15:3-4 : 3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, 4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,
  • 1 Cor 15:14-20 : 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty. 15 Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins. 18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. 19 For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone. 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive– forever and ever– and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!
  • Acts 1:22 : 22 beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us– one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”
  • Acts 2:32 : 32 This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.
  • Acts 17:22-23 : 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.
  • Acts 17:31 : 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.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 25:20-21
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    81%

    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.

    21But when Paul appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor, I ordered him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar.”

  • Acts 25:14-18
    5 verses
    78%

    14While they were staying there many days, Festus explained Paul’s case to the king to get his opinion, saying,“There is a man left here as a prisoner by Felix.

    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.

    16I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met his accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the accusation.

    17So 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.

    18When his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.

  • Acts 23:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council.

    29I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

    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.

  • Acts 28:17-19
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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.

    18When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

    19But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar– not that I had some charge to bring against my own people.

  • Acts 17:18-19
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    18Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking,“What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said,“He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.”(They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

    19So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying,“May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

  • Acts 24:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

    20Or these men here should tell what crime they found me guilty of when I stood before the council,

    21other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them:‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”

  • Acts 17:3
    71%

    3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying,“This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”

  • Acts 25:24-26
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    70%

    24Then Festus said,“King Agrippa, and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace petitioned me both in Jerusalem and here, shouting loudly that he ought not to live any longer.

    25But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

    26But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this preliminary hearing I may have something to write.

  • Acts 26:8
    70%

    8Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?

  • Acts 22:30
    70%

    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 14:19
    70%

    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 26:30-31
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    69%

    30So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,

    31and as they were leaving they said to one another,“This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

  • Acts 25:6-9
    4 verses
    69%

    6After 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.

    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.

    8Paul said in his defense,“I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”

    9But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, asked Paul,“Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be tried before me there on these charges?”

  • Acts 17:32
    69%

    32Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said,“We will hear you again about this.”

  • Acts 28:22
    69%

    22But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it.”

  • Acts 23:9
    69%

    9There was a great commotion, and some experts in the law from the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly,“We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

  • Acts 25:2
    68%

    2So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.

  • Acts 25:11
    68%

    11If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

  • Acts 23:6
    68%

    6Then when Paul noticed that part of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, he shouted out in the council,“Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”

  • Acts 24:14
    68%

    14But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way(which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.

  • Acts 18:5
    68%

    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 23:19-20
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    68%

    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.

  • Luke 24:19
    67%

    19He said to them,“What things?”“The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied,“a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

  • Acts 13:30
    67%

    30But God raised him from the dead,

  • Acts 21:29
    67%

    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.)

  • Acts 18:12-13
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    67%

    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 23:15
    67%

    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 24:24
    67%

    24Paul Speaks Repeatedly to Felix Some days later, when Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Acts 19:15
    67%

    15But the evil spirit replied to them,“I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”

  • Acts 26:23
    67%

    23that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”