Acts 23:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

We

Luke 23:4

If

Let

Acts 5:39

Acts 11:17

1 Corinthians 10:22

General references

Jeremiah 26:16

John 7:43

John 10:19

Bible References

We

Now I realized that he had not done anything deserving of death, but when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

and when they had left they talked with each other and said, “This man is doing nothing that deserves death or chains.”

and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.

When a man’s ways please the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”

If

For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, and no angel or spirit, but the Pharisees affirm them all.

Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

For this night an angel of the God I belong to and serve stood by me,

The crowd standing there heard it and said it was thunder. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.

Let

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You may even be found fighting against God.” So they were persuaded by him.

Therefore, if God gave them the same gift that He also gave to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I possibly hinder God?”

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

General references

Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man doesn’t deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God!”

So a division occurred among the crowd because of Him.

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.