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 members of the Synagogue known as that of Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and Visitors from Cilicia and Roman Asia, were roused to action and began disputing with Stephen;

However, as they set themselves against him and became abusive, Paul shook his clothes in protest and said to them: "Your blood be on your own heads. My conscience is clear. From this time forward I shall go to the Gentiles."

Some of them, however, hardened their hears and refused to believe, denouncing the Cause before the people. So Paul left them and withdrew his disciples, and gave daily addresses in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

But alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. For you do not go in yourselves, nor yet allow those who try to go in to do so.

And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.

But these men malign whatever they do not understand; while they use such things as they know by instinct (like the animals that have no reason) for their own corruption.

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So he left them to themselves, and, getting into the boat again, went away to the opposite shore.

For from this time, if there are five people in a house, they will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

Because it was owing to him that many of the Jews had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.

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