Acts 17:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Matt 2:3 : 3 When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
  • John 11:48 : 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

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  • Acts 17:5-7
    3 verses
    87%

    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!"

  • Acts 16:19-23
    5 verses
    83%

    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 17:9-10
    2 verses
    81%

    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 17:13
    79%

    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 16:38-39
    2 verses
    75%

    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 6:12
    74%

    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 19:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    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 21:30-31
    2 verses
    73%

    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 19:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    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 4:2
    72%

    2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

  • Acts 14:18
    72%

    18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

  • Acts 5:27
    72%

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

  • Acts 18:12-13
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    72%

    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 19:40
    72%

    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 14:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

    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 5:24
    72%

    24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

  • Matt 2:3
    71%

    3 When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

  • 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.

  • Luke 23:2
    71%

    2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

  • Acts 17:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    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 22:23
    71%

    23 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

  • 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 19:37
    70%

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

  • Acts 14:2
    70%

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

  • Acts 24:7
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  • Acts 21:34
    70%

    34 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

  • Acts 21:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    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!"

  • Acts 16:35
    70%

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

  • Acts 7:57
    70%

    57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
    70%

    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 19:17
    70%

    17 This 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.

  • Acts 4:27
    70%

    27 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

  • Acts 18:16
    69%

    16 He drove them from the judgment seat.