Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

General references

Bible References

This is

Acts 21:21
They have been informed about you -- that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.
Acts 6:13
They brought forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.
Acts 24:5
For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 26:20
but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.

Brought

Jeremiah 7:4
Stop putting your confidence in the false belief that says, "We are safe! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here!"
Lamentations 1:10
(Yod) An enemy grabbed all her valuables. Indeed she watched in horror as Gentiles invaded her holy temple -- those whom you had commanded: "They must not enter your assembly place."

General references

Acts 14:2
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Acts 18:13
saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!"
Acts 24:18
which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

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