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 certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen,

But as they opposed him and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, and said: "Your blood be upon your own hands. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

But when some grew hardened and disobedient, and spoke evil of the Way before the crowd, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued to hold discussions daily in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

"But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you do not enter, yourselves, nor do you permit those who are about to come in, to enter.

They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.

Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction.

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Then he left them, and getting into the boat again, went away to the other side,

"From this time there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three;

because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus.

But the disobedient Jews stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and embittered them against them against the brothers.