Acts 24:5

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Summary

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

We have

And a mover

Nazarenes

Matthew 2:23

General references

Proverbs 18:17

Acts 18:13

Acts 24:12

Bible References

We have

And they put forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law!

And [when they] had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,

And [when they] did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, "These [people] who have stirred up trouble [throughout] the world have come here also,

shouting, "Israelite men, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place! And furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

Now they were listening to him until this word, and they raised their voices, saying, "Away with such a man from the earth! For it is not fitting [for] him to live!"

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for concerning this sect it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere."

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "[Is] this you [who] throws Israel into confusion?"

Then the officials said to the king, "Please, this man must be killed, {because} he [is] making slack the hands of {the soldiers} who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them words like these, for this man [is] not seeking for welfare to this people, {but only} for harm."

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all of his words.

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.

[It is] enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household?

[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

And a mover

Then Saul said to the servants who [were] standing around him, "Please listen, {Benjaminites}! Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?

be it known to the king that the Jews who have come up from near you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the wall and repairing the foundation.

And Sanballat sent his servant with an open letter, [another] word like this to me a fifth time, in his hand.

And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all of the provinces of your kingdom; their laws [are] different from every [other] people, and they do not {observe} the laws of the king; it is not appropriate for the king to tolerate them.

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding [us] to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying [he] himself is Christ, a king!"

maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.

Nazarenes

And he came [and] lived in a town called Nazareth, in order that what was said by the prophets would be fulfilled: "He will be called a Nazarene."

General references

The first in his dispute is [deemed] righteous, [but] his neighbor will come and examine him.

saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law!"

And neither did they find me arguing with anyone or making a crowd develop in the temple [courts] nor in the synagogues nor throughout the city.