Acts 13:45

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Summary

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Spake

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Spake

But some men who belonged to the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), as well as some Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and began to debate with Stephen.

But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles."

But when some people became stubborn, refused to believe, and slandered the Way in front of the people, Paul left them, taking his disciples away with him, and held daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.

Whatever these people do not understand, they slander. Like irrational animals, they are destroyed by the very things they know by instinct.

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Leaving them, he got into a boat again and crossed to the other side.

From now on, five people in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.