Acts 17:5 Cross References - Moffatt

⁵ But the Jews were aroused to jealousy; they got hold of some idle rascals to form a mob and set the town in an uproar; they attacked Jason's house in the endeavour to bring them out before the populace,

¹⁸ (He knew quite well that Jesus had been delivered up out of envy.

⁹ Out of jealousy the patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him,

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

² [Move to follow vs 3] But the refractory Jews stirred up and exasperated the feeling of the Gentiles against the brothers.

¹⁹ But Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived, who won over the crowds, and after pelting Paul with stones they dragged him outside the town, thinking he was dead.

⁷ Jason has welcomed them! They all violate the decrees of Caesar by declaring someone else called Jesus is king."

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.

¹² But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia the Jews without exception rose against Paul and brought him up before the tribunal,

²⁴ By making silver shrines of Artemis a silversmith called Demetrius was the means of bringing rich profit to his workmen. ²⁵ So he got them together, along with the workmen who belonged to similar trades, and said to them: "My men, you know this trade is the source of our wealth. ²⁶ You also see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost all over Asia this fellow Paul has drawn off a considerable number of people by his persuasions. He declares that hand-made gods are not gods at all. ²⁷ Now the danger is not only that we will have our trade discredited but that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will fall into contempt and that she will be degraded from her majestic glory, she whom all Asia and the wide world worship." ²⁸ When they heard this they were filled with rage and raised the cry, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!" ²⁹ So the city was filled with confusion. They rushed like one man into the amphitheatre, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were travelling with Paul. ³⁰ (Paul wanted to enter the popular assembly, but the disciples would not allow him. ³¹ Some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, also sent to beg him not to venture into the amphitheatre.) ³² Some were shouting one thing, some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and the majority had no idea why they had met. ³³ Some of the mob concluded it must be Alexander, as the Jews pushed him to the front. So Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to defend himself before the people; ³⁴ but when they discovered he was a Jew, a roar broke from them all, and for about two hours they shouted, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus! Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"

⁴⁰ Indeed there is a danger of our being charged with riot over to-day's meeting; there is not a single reason we can give for this disorderly gathering."

²¹ Timotheus my fellow-worker salutes you; so do my fellow countrymen Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater.

³ you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

²⁶ let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

¹⁴ for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews, ¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men ¹⁶ by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!

⁵ What, do you consider this is an idle word of scripture? — 'He yearns jealously for the spirit he set within us.')