Acts 28:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement:“The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 15:7 : 7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
  • Mark 7:6 : 6 He said to them,“Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
  • 2 Pet 1:21 : 21 for no prophecy was ever borne of human impulse; rather, men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 24 Some were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

  • 26 when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

  • 33 So Paul left the Areopagus.

  • 16 But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says,“Lord, who has believed our report?”

  • 69%

    38 so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He said,“Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

    39 For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

  • 14 Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except,“The Lord’s will be done.”

  • 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.

  • 15 The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,

  • 68%

    38 but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

    39 They had a sharp disagreement, so that they parted company. Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus,

    40 but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.

  • 21 It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

  • 15 But when they had ordered them to go outside the council, they began to confer with one another,

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

  • Isa 28:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11 For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

    12 In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

  • 15 After 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.”

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

  • 21 but as it is written:“Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

  • 67%

    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!”

  • 33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

  • 43 When 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.

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

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

  • 67%

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

    46 Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,“It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

  • 67%

    21 They replied,“We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.

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

  • 17 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

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

  • 25 who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather,‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

  • 30 So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked him,“Do you understand what you’re reading?”

  • 4 Paul and Barnabas Preach in Cyprus So Barnabas and Saul, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

  • Acts 18:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

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

    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!”

  • 39 Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

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

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

  • 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.

  • 15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

  • 14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

  • 2 When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement.

  • 9 But 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.

  • 9 There 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?”

  • 28 “Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

  • 40 When the commanding officer had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and gestured to the people with his hand. When they had become silent, he addressed them in Aramaic,

  • 2 While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,“Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”