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 members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, got to debating with Stephen,

But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be upon your own heads! I am not to blame for it myself. Hereafter I am going to the heathen."

But as some of them grew harder and harder and refused to believe, actually criticizing The Way before the people, he left them, withdrew his disciples, and continued his discussions in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you bolt the doors of the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you let those who are trying to do so go in.

They are astonished that you are not still rushing hand in hand with them into the same excesses of profligate living, and they abuse you for it;

But these persons abuse everything they do not understand, and they are going to be destroyed by the very things they know by instinct, like the irrational animals.

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And He left them and again got into the boat and crossed to the other side.

For from now on, five in a house will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

for on account of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.

But the Jews who refused to accept their message aroused and exasperated the minds of the heathen against the brothers.