Acts 14:19 Cross References - Mace

¹⁹ Now some Jews being arriv'd from Antioch and Iconium, work'd so upon the people, that they stoned Paul, and dragg'd him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

²⁰ but the chief priests and senators persuaded the people to demand Barabbas, and put to death Jesus. ²¹ the governor therefore having asked, which of the two would you have me release? they said, Barabbas. ²² Pilate replied, what shall I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ? they all cried out, let him be crucified. ²³ the governor said, why, what mischief has he done? but they cried out the more, let him be crucified. ²⁴ Pilate perceiving he was so far from prevailing, that they were more tumultuous, he took water, and washed his hands before all the people, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: you are answerable for it. ²⁵ at this all the people cry'd out, "his blood be on us, and on our children."

¹¹ but the chief priests incited the people to demand, that he would rather release Barabbas. ¹² Pilate still urg'd them again, and said, what then would you have me do with him, that you stile king of the Jews? ¹³ and they cried out again, crucify him. ¹⁴ Pilate replied, why, what harm has he done? but they cried out more furiously, crucify him.

⁵⁸ then they dragg'd him out of the city, and stoned him: the false witnesses having laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

¹⁶ for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name.

⁴⁵ when the Jews saw such a crowd, they were fill'd with resentment, and oppos'd what Paul had advanc'd, even to blasphemy.

⁵⁰ but the Jews having animated the women of quality of their religion, and the leading men of the city, raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and banish'd them from their territorys. ⁵¹ so they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

⁵ upon this the Gentiles and the Jews, supported by their magistrates, made an insurrection in order to use violence against them, and even to stone them:

²¹ After they had preach'd the gospel in that city, and made many disciples, they retook the road to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,

¹³ but when the Jews of Thessalonica were inform'd that Paul had preached the word of God at Berea, they went thither to stir up the populace.

²⁰ that I was present, when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, that I abetted the slaughter, and watch'd the clothes of those who slew him.

³¹ I am daily receiving new mortifications, witness your cruel boastings against me, which I bear for the sake of Christ Jesus our Lord;

¹⁰ always bearing about in my body the marks of sufferings like those of Jesus, so that Jesus might be plainly prov'd to be alive by the sufferings of my body. ¹¹ for as long as I live I shall be exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest by the preservation of our mortal life. ¹² so that I suffer the influences of his death, while you only feel the effects of his life.

²³ so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.

²⁵ thrice was I whip'd with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I was shipwreck'd; a night and a day I was floating on the deep:

¹¹ my persecutions, and the sufferings that befel me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions did I endure? but the Lord deliver'd me out of them all: yes,

¹² for Jesus likewise suffered without the gate, to show he was the expiatory victim for the people. ¹³ let us therefore decamp, and bear the reproach of following his example: