Acts 17:6 Cross References - NSB

⁶ When they did not find them they dragged Jason and other brothers before the rulers of the city. They said: »These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.«

⁸ »I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. ⁹ »My people have begged for my help. I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them.

¹⁷ Ahab saw Elijah. He said: »Is it you, Israel’s troublemaker?« ¹⁸ Then he said in answer: »I have not made trouble for Israel. You and your family have. You have disobeyed Jehovah’s commands and have gone after the Baals.

² »Jehovah says: ‘Whoever stays on in the city will die in war or of starvation or disease. But those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians will not be killed. They will at least escape with their life.’ ³ »I also told them that Jehovah said: ‘I am going to give the city to the Babylonian army, and they will capture it.’« ⁴ The officials went to the king and said: »This man must be put to death. By talking like this he is making the soldiers in the city lose their courage. He is doing the same thing to everyone else left in the city. He is not trying to help the people. He only wants to hurt them.«

¹⁰ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: »Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.«

¹⁴ »The good news of the kingdom will be preached in the entire world for a witness to all the nations and then the end will come.

⁵ They were more insistent saying: »He excites the people throughout all Judea, beginning in Galilee even to this place.«

¹² They stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and pursued him. They caught him and brought him to the council. ¹³ They brought false witnesses, which said: »This man will not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

¹⁹ When her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. ²⁰ They took them to the magistrates and said: »These men, being Jews, cause great trouble in our city. ²¹ »They offer customs that it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans.«

¹² When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat. ¹³ They said: »This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.«

²⁸ They shouted: »Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and defiled this holy place.« ²⁹ They had previously been with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the Temple. ³⁰ The entire city was aroused, and the people ran together from all directions. They laid hold on Paul and dragged him out of the Temple. Immediately the doors were shut. ³¹ They were seeking to kill him when tidings came to the military commander of the band that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

²² The people listened to Paul until he said this. Then they shouted at the top of their voices: »Away with him! Kill him! He is not fit to live!« ²³ They were screaming, throwing off their clothes, and throwing dust up in the air.

⁵ »We have found this man to be a troublemaker who stirs up sedition (resists lawful authority) among all the Jews throughout the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

²² »We desire to hear your opinion concerning this sect. We have knowledge that it is attacked in all places.«