Acts 25:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

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  • Acts 25:15 : 15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
  • Acts 24:1 : 1 After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
  • Rom 3:12-19 : 12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, No, not, so much as one." 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;" 14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 17 The way of peace, they haven't known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 If the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 25:14-15
    2 verses
    86%

    14As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

    15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

  • Acts 25:3-4
    2 verses
    83%

    3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

    4However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

  • Acts 23:19-21
    3 verses
    78%

    19The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"

    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.

    21Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

  • Acts 22:30
    77%

    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.

  • Acts 24:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

    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,

  • Acts 23:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    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 28:17
    75%

    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 25:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    7When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

  • Acts 23:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    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."

    31So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

  • Acts 5:27
    74%

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

  • Matt 26:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Then 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.

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

  • Acts 25:9
    74%

    9But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?"

  • Acts 6:12
    73%

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

  • Matt 26:59
    72%

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

  • Acts 21:31
    72%

    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 25:23
    72%

    23So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

  • Matt 27:20
    72%

    20Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

  • Acts 25:1
    71%

    1Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

  • Acts 25:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

    18Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed;

  • Acts 26:30
    71%

    30The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

  • Acts 23:28
    71%

    28Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

  • Acts 21:27
    71%

    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,

  • Acts 22:24
    71%

    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.

  • Acts 23:4
    71%

    4Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God's high priest?"

  • Acts 24:7
    71%

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

  • Luke 22:2
    71%

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

  • Matt 26:57
    71%

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

  • Acts 24:9
    71%

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

  • Acts 24:27
    71%

    27But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

  • Acts 21:12
    71%

    12When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

  • Luke 22:66
    71%

    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,

  • Acts 18:12
    71%

    12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

  • Mark 15:11
    71%

    11But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

  • Mark 15:1
    71%

    1Immediately 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.

  • Luke 23:10
    70%

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

  • Acts 26:12
    70%

    12"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

  • Matt 27:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

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

    2and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

  • Acts 19:31
    70%

    31Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

  • Acts 23:10
    70%

    10When 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.