Acts 23:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And there came a great cry, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part having arisen, were striving, saying, `No evil do we find in this man; and if a spirit spake to him, or a messenger, we may not fight against God;'

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  • Acts 22:7 : 7 I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?
  • Acts 22:17-18 : 17 `And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance, 18 and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;
  • John 12:29 : 29 the multitude, therefore, having stood and heard, were saying that there hath been thunder; others said, `A messenger hath spoken to him.'
  • Mark 2:16 : 16 And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why -- that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?'
  • Acts 23:29 : 29 whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;
  • Acts 25:25 : 25 and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,
  • Acts 26:31 : 31 and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- `This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'
  • Acts 27:23 : 23 for there stood by me this night a messenger of God -- whose I am, and whom I serve --
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?
  • Acts 26:14-19 : 14 and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick! 15 `And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; 16 but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things `in which' I will appear to thee, 17 delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me. 19 `Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
  • Acts 23:8 : 8 for Sadducees, indeed, say there is no rising again, nor messenger, nor spirit, but Pharisees confess both.
  • 1 Sam 24:17 : 17 And he saith unto David, `More righteous thou `art' than I; for thou hast done me good, and I have done thee evil;
  • Prov 16:7 : 7 When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.
  • Luke 5:30 : 30 and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'
  • Luke 23:4 : 4 And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'
  • Luke 23:14-15 : 14 said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him; 15 no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;
  • Luke 23:22 : 22 And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release `him'.'
  • Acts 5:39 : 39 and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'
  • Acts 9:4 : 4 and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'
  • Acts 11:17 : 17 if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I -- how was I able to withstand God?'

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    6and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, `Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee -- son of a Pharisee -- concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.'

    7And he having spoken this, there came a dissension of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, and the crowd was divided,

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