Acts 17:5

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Acts 17:13 : 13 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.
  • Rom 16:21 : 21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
  • Judg 9:4 : 4 They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
  • Acts 17:7 : 7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"
  • Job 30:1-9 : 1 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs. 2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished? 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. 4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food. 5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief; 6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks. 7 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together. 8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land. 9 "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. 10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.
  • Ps 35:15 : 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
  • Isa 26:11 : 11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
  • Matt 27:18 : 18 For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.
  • Acts 7:9 : 9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
  • Acts 13:45 : 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 14:2 : 2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
  • Acts 14:19 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
  • 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.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
  • Acts 18:12 : 12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
  • Acts 19:24-34 : 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen, 25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth. 26 You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands. 27 Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships." 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. 31 Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater. 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. 33 They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people. 34 But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
  • Acts 19:40 : 40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."

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    6When 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,

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

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

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

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

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

    13But 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.

  • Acts 14:1-2
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  • Acts 16:19-20
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    19But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

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  • Acts 13:44-45
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    44The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

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  • Acts 13:50-51
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    50But 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.

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    4Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

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    28When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

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    29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

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

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  • Acts 19:32-33
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  • Luke 4:28-29
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    28They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

    29They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

  • Acts 14:19
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  • Acts 19:37
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  • Acts 16:39
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    39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

  • Acts 26:21
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  • Acts 5:26
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    17This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.