Acts 24:18
amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
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- Acts 21:26-30 : 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them. 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.
- Acts 26:21 : 21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.
- Acts 24:12 : 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.
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- Acts 24:11-144 verses82%
11seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
12In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
13Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
14But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
- Acts 24:16-172 verses81%
16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
17Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
- Acts 24:19-213 verses79%
19They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
20Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,
21unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"
- Acts 21:26-305 verses76%
26Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
27When 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,
28crying 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!"
29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
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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21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.
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17"It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
- Acts 24:6-72 verses72%
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 19:31-333 verses71%
31Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
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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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."
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21They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
- Acts 28:17-193 verses70%
17It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
18who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
19But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
- Acts 20:18-192 verses70%
18When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
19serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
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37For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
- Acts 21:22-243 verses70%
22What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.
23Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.
24Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
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12"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
- Acts 23:27-304 verses70%
27"This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
28Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
29I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
30When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."
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4"Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
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18Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
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23About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.
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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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2When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,
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8while 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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18Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed;
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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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4But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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10Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
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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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20When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
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2When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,