Acts 24:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Luke 23:2

1 Peter 2:12

Nazarenes

Matthew 2:23

General references

Acts 18:13

Acts 24:12

Bible References

We have

They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law!

Bringing them before the praetors they declared, "These fellows are Jews who are making an agitation in our town;

but as they failed to find Paul and Silas they haled Jason and some of the brothers before the politarchs, yelling, "These upsetters of the whole world have come here too!

shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"

Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

And a mover

They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

Nazarenes

He went and settled in a town called Nazaret, so that what had been said by the prophets might be fulfilled: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'

General references

crying, "This fellow incites men to worship God contrary to the Law."

They never found me arguing with anyone in the temple or causing a riot either in the synagogues or in the city;