Acts 25:3 Cross References - Wesley

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

²³ And he sware to her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask me, I will give thee, to the half my kingdom. ²⁴ And she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. ²⁵ And coming in quickly with haste to the king she asked, saying, I will that thou give me immediately in a charger the head of John the Baptist.

⁸ And Herod seeing Jesus was exceeding glad; for he had been long desirous to see him, because he had heard many things of him, and he hoped to see some miracle done by him. ⁹ And he questioned him in many words, but he answered him nothing. ¹⁰ And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him. ¹¹ And Herod, having with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a splendid robe, sent him back to Pilate. ¹² And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves. ¹³ And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, ¹⁴ and the people, Said to them, Ye have brought this man to me, as perverting the people; and behold, I having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man, touching the things whereof ye accuse him. ¹⁵ Nor yet Herod; for I sent you to him; and lo, he hath done nothing worthy of death. ¹⁶ I will therefore chastise and release him. ¹⁷ For he was under a necessity of releasing one to them at the feast. ¹⁸ And they cried all at once saying, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas: ¹⁹ (Who for an insurrection made in the city, and for murder had been cast into prison.) ²⁰ Pilate desiring to release Jesus, spake again to them. ²¹ But they cried, saying, Crucify, crucify him. He said to them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? ²² I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise and release him. ²³ But they insisted with loud voices, requiring that he should be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. ²⁴ And Pilate gave sentence, that what they desired should be done.

³ These things will they do, because they have not known the Father nor me.

² going to the high priest, Desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, he might bring both men and women bound to Jerusalem.

²⁴ But their lying in wait was known by Saul: and they guarded the gates day and night to kill him.

¹² And when it was day, some of the Jews entering into a conspiracy, bound themselves under 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 confederacy. ¹⁴ And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves by a solemn curse, not to taste anything, till we have killed Paul. ¹⁵ Now therefore ye with the council signify to the tribune, that he bring him down to you to-morrow, as though ye would more accurately examine the things concerning him: and we, before he came near, are ready to kill him.

⁹ I indeed thought myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth: ¹⁰ Which also I did in Jerusalem: and having received authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prisons, and when they 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 why may we not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) do evil, that good may come? Whose damnation is just.