Acts 18:16
He drove them from the judgment seat.
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- Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
- Rom 13:3-4 : 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same, 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
- Rev 12:16 : 16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
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17Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.
- Acts 18:11-155 verses80%
11He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
13saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."
14But 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;
15but 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 16:19-235 verses74%
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.
20When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
21and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
22The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
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17When therefore they had come together here, I didn't delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought.
- Acts 24:6-72 verses71%
6He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.{TR adds "We wanted to judge him according to our law,"}
7{TR adds "but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,"}
- Acts 16:37-393 verses70%
37But 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 assuredly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"
38The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.
- Acts 22:21-244 verses70%
21"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"
22They 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!"
23As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
24the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
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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 17:8-92 verses69%
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.
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57But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.
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36for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!"
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32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
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12They 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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35But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."
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6When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.
- Acts 14:5-62 verses68%
5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
6they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
- Acts 19:40-412 verses68%
40For 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."
41When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
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33Thus Paul went out from among them.
- Acts 18:6-72 verses68%
6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"
7He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
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38If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
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30The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
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29The 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 19:32-332 verses67%
32Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.
33They 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.
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1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
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15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
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13When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
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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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19I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
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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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18Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
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11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.