Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.

Obeyed

Bible References

Boasting

Acts 8:9
But a certain man, named Simon, lived previously in that city, who practised magic, and astonished the nation of Samaria, giving out himself as an extraordinary great personage:
Matthew 24:24
for false Messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and give out great signs and wonders; so as to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no man deceive you in any way: because that cannot be till the apostasy come first, and the man of sin appear, the son of perdition,
2 Peter 2:18
Uttering pompous discourses of inanity, ensnaring by the lusts of the flesh, by lascivious impurities, those who had truly escaped from such as live in a course of delusion.
Jude 1:16
These men are murmurers, complainers at their lot in life, walking after their own corrupt passions; and their mouth utters hyperbolically pompous expressions, pretending high personal admiration, in order to make their advantage.
Revelation 17:3
And he bore me away in spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads, and ten horns.

To whom

Acts 21:38
Art not thou certainly that Egyptian who some time since raised a sedition, and led out into the desert four thousand cutthroats?
2 Peter 2:2
And many will go out of the way after their fatal errors; by means of whom the way of truth will be injuriously reviled.

Obeyed

Matthew 24:26
Therefore if they say to you, He is in the wilderness; go not out: lo! he is in the secret closets; believe it not.