Acts 6:12

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Prov 15:18 : 18 A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
  • Matt 26:57 : 57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
  • Acts 4:1-3 : 1 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, 2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
  • Acts 5:18 : 18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.
  • Acts 5:27 : 27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
  • Acts 13:50 : 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 14:2 : 2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
  • 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 17:5-6 : 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,
  • 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.
  • 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 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,

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  • 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

  • Acts 6:13-14
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    13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

    14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."

  • 66 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

  • Acts 5:25-28
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    25 One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."

    26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

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

    28 saying, "Didn't we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."

  • 21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

  • 57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

  • 53 They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

  • Matt 26:3-4
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    3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

    4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

  • 1 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

  • 1 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

  • 46 They laid their hands on him, and seized him.

  • Acts 4:5-7
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    5 It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

    6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

    7 When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"

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

  • 27 They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,

  • 10 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

  • 17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

  • Acts 24:6-7
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    6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

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  • 1 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

  • 29 They 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.

  • 54 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.

  • 1 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

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    53 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

    54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

  • 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,

  • 2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

  • 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

  • 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,

  • 11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

  • 52 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

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

  • 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

  • 57 Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

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

  • 19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

  • 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

  • 55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.

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

  • 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

  • 18 The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

  • 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.

  • 1 Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

  • 11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;