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- Acts 16:20
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They brought them to the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews and are throwing our city into turmoil
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- Acts 16:36
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The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”
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- Acts 16:38
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So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.
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- Acts 17:3
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explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.
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- Acts 17:6
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But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,
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- Acts 17:7
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and Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, named Jesus!”
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- Acts 17:8
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On hearing this, the crowd and city officials were greatly disturbed.
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- Acts 17:11
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Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
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- Acts 17:18
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Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
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- Acts 17:19
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So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
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- Acts 17:20
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For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
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- Acts 17:23
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For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
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- Acts 17:24
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The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.
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- Acts 17:32
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When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
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- Acts 18:1
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After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
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- Acts 18:10
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For I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you, because I have many people in this city.”
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- Acts 18:13
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“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.
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- Acts 18:15
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But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”
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- Acts 18:17
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At this, the crowd seized Sosthenes the synagogue leader and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But none of this was of concern to Gallio.
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- Acts 18:25
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He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
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- Acts 18:26
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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
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- Acts 19:4
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Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
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- Acts 19:10
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This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.
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- Acts 19:14
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Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
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- Acts 19:17
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This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of them. So the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.
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- Acts 19:21
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After these things had happened, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well.”
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- Acts 19:25
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Demetrius assembled the craftsmen, along with the workmen in related trades. “Men,” he said, “you know that this business is our source of prosperity.
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- Acts 19:26
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And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, this Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
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- Acts 19:27
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There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”
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- Acts 19:36
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Since these things are undeniable, you ought to be calm and not do anything rash.
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- Acts 19:37
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For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.
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- Acts 19:40
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For we are in jeopardy of being charged with rioting for today’s events, and we have no justification to account for this commotion.”
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- Acts 19:41
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After he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.
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- Acts 20:5
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These men went on ahead and waited for us in Troas.
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- Acts 20:34
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You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
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- Acts 20:36
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When Paul had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
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- Acts 21:9
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He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.
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- Acts 21:11
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Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”
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- Acts 21:12
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When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.
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- Acts 21:15
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After these days, we packed up and went on to Jerusalem.
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- Acts 21:23
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Therefore do what we advise you. There are four men with us who have taken a vow.
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- Acts 21:24
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Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
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- Acts 21:28
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crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
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- Acts 21:38
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“Aren’t you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the Assassins into the wilderness?”
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- Acts 22:3
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“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.
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- Acts 22:4
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I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
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- Acts 22:22
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The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
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- Acts 22:26
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On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”
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- Acts 22:28
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“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
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- Acts 23:1
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Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
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