Acts 5:36

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.

Boasting

To whom

Acts 21:38

2 Peter 2:2

Obeyed

Matthew 24:26

General references

Jeremiah 26:16

Bible References

Boasting

And a certain man, Simon by name, was before in the city using magic, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be somebody great:

For false Christs, and false prophets, shall be raised up, and give great signs and wonders; so as to deceive, if possible, also the chosen.

Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage.

And he brought me away in the spirit into the desert: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet wild beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

To whom

Art not thou then the Egyptian, who before these days having risen up, and having brought into the desert four thousand men of murderers?

(And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.)

Obeyed

If therefore they should say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth; Behold, in the store-houses, believe ye not.

General references

And the chiefs will say, and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: Not for this man the judgment of death, for in the name of Jehovah his God he spake to us.