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 from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!"

But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

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Then he left them, got back into the boat, and went to the other side.

For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.

for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

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