Acts 24:14

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Acts 24:14

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Summary

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

I confess

Psalm 119:46

Matthew 10:32

After

Heresy

2 Peter 2:1

So

Micah 4:2

The god

2 Timothy 1:3

Believing

In the law

General references

Daniel 6:5

Bible References

I confess

And I speak of Thy testimonies before kings, And I am not ashamed.

'Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;

After

did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!'

and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,

Heresy

for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --

for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

So

And gone have many nations and said, Come and we go up to the mount of Jehovah, And unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we do walk in His paths, For from Zion doth go forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

The god

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him,

and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 'And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,

and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth,

And God saith again unto Moses, 'Thus dost thou say unto the sons of Israel, Jehovah, God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name -- to the age, and this My memorial, to generation -- generation.

'O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this to the age for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee;

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

Believing

For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you;

to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

'Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,

As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age;

and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

'Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,

and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, 'See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

In the law

and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, 'Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

'All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

on these -- the two commands -- all the law and the prophets do hang.'

the law and the prophets are till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, 'Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth;'

And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets,

General references

Then these men are saying, 'We do not find against this Daniel any cause of complaint, except we have found it against him in the law of his God.'