Acts 17:6 Cross References - AUV

⁶ When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These men have turned the world upside down [i.e., disrupted society by their preaching] and have [now] come here also [i.e., to do the same thing in our community].

¹⁴ And this good news concerning the kingdom [of heaven] will be preached to people throughout the world as a testimony [of God’s message] to all nations. Then, [after that] the end [i.e., of Jerusalem, the Temple, etc.] will come.

⁵ But the group became more insistent, saying, “He is stirring up the people and teaching [these things] throughout all Judea. He began [doing this] in Galilee and [has continued it] even to this place [i.e., Jerusalem].”

¹² And they stirred up the people, the elders and the teachers of the law of Moses and searched for him, seized him and brought him before the Council. ¹³ They had arranged for the false witnesses to say, "This man will not stop speaking against the Temple and the law of Moses,

¹⁹ But when the girl's slave-owners saw that their prospects for income [from her activities] were [now] gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them to the open shopping market, in front of the authorities. ²⁰ And when they brought them before the city officials, they made this charge [against them]: "These Jewish men are causing too much trouble in our city, ²¹ and they are teaching people to observe customs which we Romans are not permitted to accept or practice."

¹² But when Gallio was magistrate of Achaia [i.e., the southern province of Greece] the Jews joined forces to attack Paul and brought him before the court of justice, ¹³ and said [about him], "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law [of Moses]."

²⁸ shouting, "[You] Israelites, help [us]! This man is teaching people everywhere [to be] against our people [i.e., the Jews], the law of Moses and this place [i.e., the Temple]; and in addition to that he has also brought Greeks [i.e., Gentiles] into the Temple and has [thereby] contaminated this holy place." ²⁹ (For the Jews had previously seen him on a city street with Trophimus, the Ephesian, whom they assumed Paul had taken into the Temple [with him]). ³⁰ [So], the entire city was stirred up, and the mob rushed together and attacked Paul, dragging him out of the Temple. Immediately the [Temple] doors were closed [i.e., to secure it from further intrusion]. ³¹ And as they were attempting to kill Paul, the commander of the military unit was informed that the entire city of Jerusalem was rioting.

²² The people had listened to Paul speaking up to this point [i.e., until he said the word "Gentiles"], then they raised their voices and shouted, "Do away with such a person from the earth; it is not right for him to live." ²³ And while the people shouted, waved around [torn] clothing and threw dust into the air,

⁵ We have found this man [i.e., Paul] to be extremely bothersome, and an instigator of strife among the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

²² But we would like to hear what you think, for according to our knowledge, this sect [you belong to] is being spoken against everywhere."