Acts 24:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.{TR adds "We wanted to judge him according to our law,"}

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  • John 18:31 : 31 Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"
  • John 19:7-8 : 7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." 8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
  • Acts 19:37 : 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
  • Acts 21:27-32 : 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. 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. 32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
  • Acts 23:10-15 : 10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks. 11 The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome." 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. 13 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. 15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
  • 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.
  • Acts 22:23 : 23 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

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  • Acts 24:7-9
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    7{TR adds "but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,"}

    8{TR adds "commanding his accusers to come to you."}By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him."

    9The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.

  • Acts 6:11-14
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    11Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

    12They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

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

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

  • Acts 24:5
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    5For 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.

  • Acts 16:20-22
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    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.

  • Acts 23:14-15
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    14They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

    15Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

  • Acts 23:27-29
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    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.

  • Acts 21:27-31
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    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.

    31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

  • Acts 25:15-17
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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.

    16To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

    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.

  • John 18:30-31
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    30They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

    31Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

  • Acts 19:40
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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."

  • Luke 24:20
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    20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

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    14and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

  • Acts 24:18-20
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    18amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

    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,

  • Acts 22:24
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    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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    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,

  • Acts 18:13
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    13saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

  • Acts 24:12
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    12In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

  • Matt 28:14
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    14If this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry."

  • Acts 5:27-28
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    27When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

    28saying, "Didn't we strictly charge 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."

  • Mark 14:46
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    46They laid their hands on him, and seized him.

  • John 18:12
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    12So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,

  • Acts 22:30
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    30But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

  • Luke 23:19
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    19one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

  • Acts 24:2
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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,

  • John 11:48
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    48If 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."

  • Acts 23:20
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    20He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

  • John 7:44
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    44Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

  • Luke 23:2
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    2They 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."

  • Luke 22:66
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    66As 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,