Acts 24:5
The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.
Acts 28:22
We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."
Acts 24:14
I certainly admit to you that I worship our fathers' God according to the methods of what they call a 'sect'; but I believe all that is written in the Law and in the prophets,
Acts 15:5
But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and said, "Gentiles must be circumcised and told to observe the law of Moses."
Acts 26:5
They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion.
Luke 23:2
They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."
Acts 5:17
This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy;
Acts 16:20-21
Bringing them before the praetors they declared, "These fellows are Jews who are making an agitation in our town;
Acts 17:6-7
but as they failed to find Paul and Silas they haled Jason and some of the brothers before the politarchs, yelling, "These upsetters of the whole world have come here too!
Acts 21:28
shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"
Matthew 2:23
He went and settled in a town called Nazaret, so that what had been said by the prophets might be fulfilled: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'
Matthew 5:11-12
Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;
Matthew 10:25
enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!
Luke 23:5
But they insisted, "He stirs up the people by teaching all over Judaea. He started from Galilee and now he is here."
Luke 23:19
(This was a man who had been put into prison on account of a riot which had taken place in the city and also on a charge of murder.)
Luke 23:25
he released the man they wanted, the man who had been imprisoned for riot and murder, and Jesus he handed over to their will.
Acts 6:13
They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law!
Acts 22:22
Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"
1 Corinthians 4:13
when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!
1 Corinthians 11:19
There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.
1 Peter 2:12-15
Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.