Acts 17:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Moved

And set

Acts 19:24

Jason

Acts 17:7

Romans 16:21

General references

Mark 6:10

Acts 14:2

Acts 28:24

Bible References

Moved

But when the Jews at Thessalonica found out that God's message had been delivered at Berea by Paul, they came there too, to excite and stir up the populace.

The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the crowd, they were very jealous, and they contradicted what Paul said and abused him.

But the Jews who refused their message stirred up the heathen and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

While Gallio was governor of Greece the Jews made a concerted attack upon Paul, and brought him before the governor.

For he knew that they had handed him over to him out of envy.

for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

Do you suppose the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He yearns jealously over the Spirit he has put in our hearts?"

And set

A silversmith named Demetrius was making large profits for his workmen by the manufacture of silver shrines of Artemis.

Jason

and Jason has taken them in. They all disobey the emperor's decrees, and claim that someone else called Jesus is king."

My fellow-worker, Timothy, wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow-countrymen.

General references

And he said to them, "Whenever you go to stay at a house, remain in it till you leave that place.

But the Jews who refused their message stirred up the heathen and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe.