Acts 17:13

World English Bible (2000)

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

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  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
  • Prov 15:18 : 18 A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
  • Prov 28:25 : 25 One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
  • Luke 12:51 : 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
  • Acts 6:12 : 12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,
  • Acts 14:2 : 2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
  • Acts 21:27 : 27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
  • 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews; 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

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  • Acts 17:4-12
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    4 Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

    5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

    6 When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

    7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"

    8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

    9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

    10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

    11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

    12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

  • Acts 17:1-2
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    1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

    2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

  • Acts 13:50-51
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    50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

    51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

  • Acts 14:1-2
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    1 It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

    2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

  • Acts 17:14-17
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    14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

    15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

    16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

    17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

  • Acts 16:20
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    20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

  • Acts 18:12-13
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    12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

    13 saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

  • Acts 13:42-45
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    42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

    43 Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

    44 The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

    45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

  • Acts 21:27
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    27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

  • Acts 19:28-30
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    28 When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

    29 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

    30 When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn't allow him.

  • Acts 14:5-7
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    5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

    6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

    7 There they preached the Good News.

  • Acts 19:23
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    23 About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.

  • Acts 14:18-19
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    18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

    19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

  • Acts 18:5
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    5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

  • Acts 21:30-31
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    30 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

    31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

  • Acts 13:14-15
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    14 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

    15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."

  • Acts 25:7
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    7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

  • Acts 6:12
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    12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

  • Acts 28:17
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    17 It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

  • Acts 19:32
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    32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.

  • Acts 11:22
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    22 The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

  • Acts 14:21
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    21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

  • Acts 14:14
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    14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

  • Acts 17:21
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    21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

  • Acts 8:4
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    4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.