Acts 18:13

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Acts 6:13 : 13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
  • Acts 18:4 : 4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
  • Acts 18:15 : 15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."
  • Acts 21:28 : 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 24:5-6 : 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. 6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
  • Acts 25:8 : 8 while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."

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    14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;

    15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."

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    4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

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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,

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  • Acts 16:20-21
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    20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

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

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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,

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