Verse 9
But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
Referenced Verses
- Acts 19:23 : 23 At that time a great disturbance took place concerning the Way.
- Acts 9:2 : 2 and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
- Acts 14:4 : 4 But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.
- Acts 13:45-46 : 45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him. 46 Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,“It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.
- Acts 17:4 : 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.
- Acts 18:6-8 : 6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!” 7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.
- Acts 11:26 : 26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught a significant number of people. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.
- Acts 19:30 : 30 But when Paul wanted to enter the public assembly, the disciples would not let him.
- Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
- Acts 22:4 : 4 I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,
- Acts 24:21 : 21 other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them:‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”
- Acts 28:22 : 22 But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it.”
- Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.
- Rom 11:7 : 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,
- 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.
- 2 Tim 1:15 : 15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
- 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.
- 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.
- Heb 3:13 : 13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called“Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.
- 2 Pet 2:2 : 2 And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.
- 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,
- Jude 1:10 : 10 But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.
- 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.
- 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.
- 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the LORD got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.
- Neh 9:16-17 : 16 “But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments. 17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,
- Neh 9:29 : 29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances– those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.
- Ps 95:8 : 8 He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,
- Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway.
- Isa 8:14 : 14 He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble– to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem.
- Jer 7:26 : 26 But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.’”
- Jer 19:15 : 15 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused to pay any attention to what I have said!’”
- Matt 15:14 : 14 Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”
- Matt 16:4 : 4 A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.
- Matt 26:55 : 55 At that moment Jesus said to the crowd,“Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.
- Luke 12:51-53 : 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
- John 12:40 : 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”
- Acts 7:51 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!