Acts 17:6

World English Bible (2000)

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,

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  • Acts 24:5 : 5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
  • Acts 28:22 : 22 But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."
  • Exod 3:8-9 : 8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
  • 1 Kgs 18:17-18 : 17 It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?" 18 He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals.
  • Jer 38:2-4 : 2 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live. 3 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. 4 Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt."
  • Amos 7:10 : 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
  • Matt 24:14 : 14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."
  • Acts 6:12-13 : 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, 13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
  • Acts 16:19-21 : 19 But 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. 20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city, 21 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
  • Acts 18:12-13 : 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 21:28-31 : 28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!" 29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. 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 22:22-23 : 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!" 23 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

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  • Acts 17:7-10
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    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.

  • Acts 17:4-5
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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.

  • Acts 16:19-23
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    19 But 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.

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

    21 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

    22 The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

    23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

  • Acts 17:13
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    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.

  • Acts 19:28-29
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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.

  • 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 19:32-33
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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.

    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.

  • Acts 14:5-6
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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.

  • Acts 14:2
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    2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

  • Acts 16:37-39
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    37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"

    38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

    39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

  • Acts 24:5
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    5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

  • Acts 19:37
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    37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

  • Acts 21:27-31
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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,

    28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

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

    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 17:18-19
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    18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

    19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

  • 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."

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    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;

  • Acts 14:14-15
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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,

    15 "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

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

  • Acts 19:40
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    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."

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

  • Acts 24:12
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    12 In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

  • Acts 11:20
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    20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

  • Acts 13:50
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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.

  • Acts 5:27
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    27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

  • Acts 5:22-23
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    22 But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

    23 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"

  • Acts 24:7
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  • Acts 8:4
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    4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

  • Acts 19:26
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    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.

  • Acts 16:35
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    35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."