Acts 25:3 Cross References - Living_Oracles

³ that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying an ambush to kill him by the way.

²³ nay, he swore to her, Whatsoever you shall ask, I will give it you, were it the half of my kingdom. ²⁴ And she withdrew, and said to her mother, What shall I ask? She answered, The head of John the Immerser. ²⁵ Her daughter then, returning hastily to the king, made this request: I would that you give me presently in a basin, the head of John the Immerser.

⁸ And Herod was very glad to see Jesus: it was what he had long desired; having heard much of him, and hoping to see him perform some miracle. ⁹ He, therefore, asked him many questions, but Jesus returned him no answer. ¹⁰ Yet the chief priests and the scribes, who were present, accused him with eagerness. ¹¹ But Herod and his military train despised him: and having, in derision, arrayed him in a splendid robe, remanded him to Pilate. ¹² On that day, Pilate and Herod became friends; for, before, they had been at enmity. ¹³ Pilate, having convened the chief priests, the magistrates and the people, ¹⁴ said to them, You have brought this man before me, as one who excites the people to revolt; yet, having examined him in your presence, I have not found him guilt of any of those crimes of which you accuse him. ¹⁵ Neither has Herod; for I referred you to him. Be assured, then, that he has done nothing to deserve death. ¹⁶ I will therefore chastise him, and release him. ¹⁷ For it was necessary that he should release one to them at the festival. ¹⁸ Then all cried out together, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas. ¹⁹ Now Barabbas had been imprisoned for raising sedition in the city, and for murder. ²⁰ Pilate, willing to release Jesus, again, expostulated. ²¹ But they cried, saying, Crucify! crucify him! ²² A third time he repeated, Why? What evil has this man done? I do not find him guilty of any capital crime; I will therefore chastise him, and release him. ²³ But they persisted, demanding, with much clamor, that he might be crucified. At last, their clamors, and those of the chief priests, prevailed: ²⁴ and Pilate pronounced sentence, that it should be as they desired.

³ And these things they will do, because they know not the Father nor me.

² and petitioned for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus; that, if he found any of that way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

²⁴ but their design was made known to Saul; and they watched the gates, day and night, to murder him.

¹² And when it was day, some of the Jews, entering into a conspiracy, bound themselves with a curse; saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. ¹³ And they were more than forty, who had made this agreement. ¹⁴ And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves m by a solemn anathema, not to taste anything till we have slain Paul: ¹⁵ now, therefore, do you, with the Sanhedrim, signify to the commander, that he bring him down to you, as if you would more accurately discuss what relates to him; and we are ready to kill him, before he can come near you.

⁹ I, indeed, thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene. ¹⁰ Which, accordingly, I did in Jerusalem; and I shut up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the chief priests. And when some of them were killed, I gave my vote against them: ¹¹ and frequently punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme: and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

⁸ and not because we have done evil that good may come, as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we teach-whose condemnation is just?