Acts 24:5

Paul Before Felix At Caesarea Maritima

⁴ But, not to detain you too long, I beg you in your kindness to give us a brief hearing. ⁵ For we have found this man a perfect pest and a distributor of the peace among the Jews throughout the world. He is a ringleader in the sect of the Nazarenes; ⁶ once he tried to desecrate the temple, but we arrested him,

Stirs Up Dissension

Nazarene

Paul

Roman

Acts 28:22

But we think it fitting to let you tell us what your views are, for as to this sect it is known by all of us that it is everywhere denounced."

Acts 24:14

But I certainly admit this as a fact that in accordance with The Way -- that they call heresy -- I continue to worship the God of my forefathers, and I still believe in everything taught in the law and written in the prophets,

Acts 15:5

But some members of the Pharisaic party, who had become believers, arose and said that such converts must be circumcised and told to keep the law of Moses.

Acts 26:5

for they have known all along from the first, if they would but testify to it, that I as a Pharisee have lived by the standard of the strictest sect of our religion.

Luke 23:2

Here they began to make the following charges against Him: "We have found this fellow corrupting our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar and claiming to be a king himself."

Acts 5:17

Now the high priest took a stand, and all his friends, the party of the Sadducees; and being filled with jealousy,

Acts 16:20-21

and brought them to the chiefs of the police court. They said, "These men are Jews; they continue to make great disturbance in our town

Acts 17:6-7

They stopped at Jason's house and tried to bring them out to the people. So, as they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the town magistrates, shouting, "These fellows, who have turned the world topsy-turvy, have come here too,

Acts 21:28

as they kept shouting, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the law and this place; yea, more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and desecrated this sacred place."

Matthew 2:23

He went to a town called Nazareth and made his home there, so that the saying of the prophet was fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene."

Matthew 5:11-12

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.

Matthew 10:25

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

Luke 23:5

But they continued emphatically insisting, "He is exciting the people by teaching all over Judea. He started in Galilee and now He is here."

Luke 23:19

(He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had occurred in the city and for murder.)

Luke 23:25

So he released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, whom they continued to demand, but turned Jesus over to their will.

Acts 6:13

Then they put up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops saying things against this holy place and against the law,

Acts 22:22

They listened to him until he said this, and then all at once they shouted, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is certainly not fit to live!"

1 Corinthians 4:13

When we are slandered by them, we try to conciliate them. To this very hour we have been made the filth of the world, the scum of the universe!

1 Corinthians 11:19

Yes, indeed, there must be parties among you, in order that people of approved fitness may come to the front among you.

1 Peter 2:12-15

Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.

1 Peter 2:19

For it is pleasing in the sight of God for one to bear his sorrows though suffering innocently.