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

Luke 23:2

1 Peter 2:12

Nazarenes

Matthew 2:23

General references

Acts 18:13

Acts 24:12

Bible References

We have

and brought forward false witnesses who said, This man speaks incessantly against this holy place, and the law;

and bringing them before the prefects said, These men, being Jews, greatly trouble the city,

but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

crying, Men of Israel, help; this is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and besides he has brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy place.

And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice saying, Take away such a man from the earth; it is not fit that he should live.

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

Blessed are you when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil against you, falsely, for my sake.

It is sufficient for the disciple to be as his teacher, and the servant as his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they call the members of his family by that name.

being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

And a mover

And they accused him, saying, We have found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to pay tribute to Caesar, saying that he is an anointed king.

having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation,

Nazarenes

and went and lived in a city called Nazareth, that the word spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, He shall be called a Nazoraean.

General references

saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

And they did not find me in the temple disputing with any one, or making a disturbance of the multitude, neither in the synagogues nor in the city;