Acts 24:9 Cross References - Thomson

⁹ And the Jews gave assent, affirming that these things were so.

² Sons of men! how long will you be stubborn! why love ye vanity and seek falsehood?

³ How long will you set yourselves against a man? You are all committing murder, as with a bended wall and a rampart pushed down. ⁴ But they had determined to pull down my honour. I was fleeing in thirst; with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they imprecated curses.

² Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of wicked men; from the multitude of them who are working iniquity. ³ They sharpened their tongues like a sword: they bent a bow, a bitter thing, ⁴ to shoot secretly a blameless man: They are to shoot him suddenly and not be afraid. ⁵ They strengthened for themselves an evil matter: they talked of hiding snares, saying, Who can see us? ⁶ They searched for iniquity: they failed in the search. A man is to come with a deep heart; and God is to be exalted. ⁷ Their Wounds became the dart of infants: ⁸ when their tongues vilified him. All that saw them were troubled:

⁴ None speaketh just things, nor is there any just judgment. They trusted in vanities and they speak lies. Because they hatch mischief, therefore they bring forth iniquity. ⁵ They hatched the eggs of asps, and are weaving a spider's web; and he who was about to eat some of their eggs, upon breaking one that was hatched found therein a viper. ⁶ Their web will not serve for a mantle, nor can they clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity ⁷ Their feet are running to evil; they are swift to shed blood. And their reasonings are reasonings for murders. Destruction and misery are in their ways,

³ and have bent their tongue like a bow; lying and infidelity prevailed in the land; because they have proceeded from evils to evils, and have not known me, saith the Lord; ⁴ be upon your guard every man against his neighbour, and in your own brothers place no confidence; for every brother will supplant, and every friend walk deceitfully; ⁵ every one will treat his friend with contempt. They cannot speak truth; their tongue hath learned to speak lies. They have done injustice, and have not stopped to rectify it. ⁶ There is usury upon usury, deceit upon deceit; they refused to know me, saith the Lord:

²⁷ Its chiefs in the midst of it were like wolves, ravening prey, to the shedding of innocent blood, that they may glut their greediness. ²⁸ They shall fall together with its prophets who anointed them, seeing vanities, prophesying lies, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Though the Lord did not speak, ²⁹ crushing by usurped authority the people of the land, and ravening prey, oppressing the poor and needy, and paying no regard to strangers to the administration of justice.

¹² with which they have increased their wicked wealth? As they who inhabit it have spoken lies and their tongue hath been exalted in their mouth; ¹³ therefore I will begin with smiting thee; I will make thee desolate for thy sins.

² that the pious is perished from the land, and among men there is not an upright man left! [J] They are all indicted for capital crimes: they grievously afflict every man his neighbour: ³ they are preparing their hands for evil. The chief asketh and the judge hath spoken words of peace! He is entirely at his devotion;

⁵⁹ And the chief priests and the elders, even the whole Sanhedrim, sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, ⁶⁰ but found it not. Though many false witnesses came forward, they did not find it. At last two false witnesses came,

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and bent upon executing the desires of your father. He was a manslayer from the beginning, and did .not abide in the truth. Because there is no truth in him, when he speaketh falsehood he speaketh what is. natural to him, for he is a liar, and the father of it.

¹¹ they suborned men to say, We heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. ¹² And having stirred up the people and the elders and the Scribes, they came upon him and seized him, and brought him to the Sanhedrim, ¹³ and set up false witnesses, who said, This man is incessantly speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law;

¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the nations that they may be saved; thus, filling up the measure of their sins continually: but the wrath is at last coming upon them,]