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In this way they excited the people, the Elders, and the Scribes. At length they came upon him, seized him with violence, and took him before the Sanhedrin.

Verse ConceptsArrestingelders, as community leadersHigh Priest, In NtInciting To EvilSanhedrinTeachers Of The Law

Seeing one of them wrongfully treated he took his part, and secured justice for the ill-treated man by striking down the Egyptian.

Verse Conceptsdefence, humanOppression, Nature OfMan AvengingGod Being Outside Of Creation

"Give me too," he said, "that power, so that every one on whom I place my hands will receive the Holy Spirit."

Verse ConceptsSacrilegeAuthority Of Disciples

after which he took food and regained his strength. Then he remained some little time with the disciples in Damascus.

Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherSeveral DaysPeople EatingSpecific Cases Of Strengtheningdamascus

So Peter rose and went with them. On his arrival they took him upstairs, and the widow women all came and stood by his side, weeping and showing him the underclothing and cloaks and garments of all kinds which Dorcas used to make while she was still with them.

Verse ConceptsClothBereavement, Experience OfStairwaysDressMournersWidowsClothing The NeedyOuter GarmentsInner GarmentsActual WidowsUpper RoomsMourning The Death Of Otherssisterhood

So, on an appointed day, Herod, having arrayed himself in royal robes, took his seat on the tribunal, and was haranguing them;

Verse ConceptsClothingJudgment SeatRobesThroneRich ApparelThe Time AppointedDistinctive Clothing

and when they had carried out everything which had been written about Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

Verse ConceptsChrist's Fulfilment Of ProphecyLowering PeopleJesus TombScriptures Fulfilled

and they took with them the following letter: "The Apostles and the elder brethren send greeting to the Gentile brethren throughout Antioch, Syria and Cilicia.

Verse ConceptsBelieversGreetingsThe Apostles In Action

and Paul desiring that he should accompany him on his journey, took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalMissionary Work, Examples OfGoing TogetherIsrael HardenedJews

The crowd, too, joined in the outcry against them, till at length the praetors ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods;

Verse ConceptsCrowdsAttackingMarketsSuffering, Causes OfPersecution Of The Apostle PaulPeople Stripping People

Then he took them, even at that time of night, washed their wounds, and he and all his household were immediately baptized;

Verse ConceptsHourLove, For One AnotherRelatives Also InvolvedChristian BaptismBaptism

This answer the lictors took back to the praetors, who were alarmed when they were told that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

Then they took him and brought him up to the Areopagus, asking him, "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?

After remaining a considerable time longer in Corinth, Paul took leave of the brethren and set sail for Syria; and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had shaved his head at Cenchreae, because he was bound by a vow.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, UnnaturalBarbersBaldnessHairsSeafaringVowsAquilaCutting HairSea Travelsyriagoodbyes

but took leave of them with the promise, "I will return to you, God willing." So he set sail from Ephesus.

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfGuidance, God's Promises OfSeafaringFarewellsSea TravelGod's Will Be Donesailinggoodbyes

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Priscilla and Aquila, after hearing him, took him home and explained God's way to him more accurately.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelism, kinds ofBoldness, Proclaiming GospelImportunity, Towards PeopleBoldness Examples OfApolloscouples

A few of the public officials, too, who were friendly to him, sent repeated messages entreating him not to venture into the Theatre.

Verse Conceptsrisk

When the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples; and, after speaking words of encouragement to them, he took his leave, and started for Macedonia.

Verse ConceptsExcitementSoundSilencegoodbyes

Then he went upstairs again, broke bread, and took some food; and after a long conversation which was continued till daybreak, at last he parted from them.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakConversationBreaking Of BreadUntil DaybreakAction For A Long Time

Accordingly, when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.

we took leave of one another; and we went on board, while they returned home.

Verse ConceptsFarewellsSea Travelgoodbyes

When he arrived he took Paul's loincloth, and bound his own feet and arms with it, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'So will the Jews in Jerusalem bind the owner of this loincloth, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"

Verse ConceptsBeltsWarning IndividualsSuffering From ForeignersSpeaking By The SpiritTying Up

as the High Priest also and all the Elders can bear me witness. It was, too, from them that I received letters to the brethren in Damascus, and I was already on my way to Damascus, intending to bring those also who had fled there, in chains to Jerusalem, to be punished.

Verse ConceptsLettersSanhedrin

But, when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul said to the Captain who stood by, "Does the Law permit you to flog a Roman citizen--and one too who is uncondemned?"

Verse ConceptsempiresRevenge, And RetaliationRoman CitizensScourgingBreaking Man's LawNo CondemnationTying UpCitizens

So the men who had been on the point of putting him under torture immediately left him. And the Tribune, too, was frightened when he learnt that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound.

Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

These words of his caused an angry dispute between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly took different sides.

Verse ConceptsAssemblyDivisions Of Opinionpharisees

So he took him and brought him to the Tribune, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, called me to him and begged me to bring this youth to you, because he has something to say to you."

Verse ConceptsChiliarchs

So, in obedience to their orders, the soldiers took Paul and brought him by night as far as Antipatris.

Verse ConceptsDuring One Night

But--not to detain you too long--I beg you in your forbearance to listen to a brief statement from us.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!graciousness

"When, therefore, a number of them came here, the next day I took my seat on the tribunal, without any loss of time, and ordered the man to be brought in.

Verse ConceptsJudgement Seat

and took their seats in the Judgement Hall, attended by the Tribunes and the men of high rank in the city; and, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatOfficersRankDisplayingHalls

It took several days of slow sailing for us to come with difficulty off Cnidus; from which point, as the wind did not allow us to get on in the direct course, we ran under the lee of Crete by Salmone.

Verse ConceptsSlownessHard Tasks

Having said this he took some bread, and, after giving thanks to God for it before them all, he broke it in pieces and began to eat it.

Verse ConceptsBreaking Of BreadThankfulnessThanksgiving, OfferedThanking God For Food

What then were the circumstances under which this took place? Was it after he had been circumcised, or before?

Verse ConceptsRighteousness imputed

it was for our sakes too. Faith, before long, will be placed to the credit of us also who are believers in Him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Verse ConceptsFaith, As Basis Of SalvationReckoningGod Raising ChristBelief In GodRighteousness imputedFaith In Godaccounting

in order that as sin has exercised kingly sway in inflicting death, so grace, too, may exercise kingly sway in bestowing a righteousness which results in the Life of the Ages through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Verse Conceptseternal life, gift ofSin, Causes OfSin, Universality OfGrace, Description OfComplicityJustified By GraceExercise

Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessdesiresGreed, Condemnation OfSelf IndulgenceSpiritually DeadRight Time For The DevilEffect Of The LawCovetousnessOpportunity

Nor is that all: later on there was Rebecca too. She was soon to bear two children to her husband, our forefather Isaac--

Moreover, if they turn from their unbelief, they too will be grafted in. For God is powerful enough to graft them in again;

Verse ConceptsSaved By FaithJoined To The ChurchPersistenceUnbelief Toward God

so now they also have been disobedient at a time when you are receiving mercy; so that to them too there may now be mercy.

Verse ConceptsReceiving God's Mercydisobedience

Greetings, too, to the Church that meets at their house. Greetings to my dear Epaenetus, who was the earliest convert to Christ in the province of Asia;

Verse ConceptsChristiansChurchHousesProperty, HousesChurch, Description OfConverts To ChristianityPeople ConvertedFirst Among The GentilesGoing To Church

On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too.

Verse ConceptsFraudRobbing PeopleWronging Other PeopleBeing Gaycheaters

And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested Him and were destroyed by the serpents.

Verse ConceptsPresumptionProving, Through TestingSatan, As TempterSnakesRebellion Against God, Nature OfTesting Godexams

For it was from the Lord that I received the facts which, in turn, I handed on to you; how that the Lord Jesus, on the night He was to be betrayed, took some bread,

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsTraditionsLord's SupperBetrayal, Of ChristHanding Over ChristBreadNever Giving Up

In the same way, when the meal was over, He also took the cup. "This cup," He said, "is the new Covenant of which my blood is the pledge. Do this, every time that you drink it, in memory of me."

Verse ConceptsCups, Literal UseCovenant, the newBlood, of Jesus ChristLord's SupperNewnessRevelation, In OtSacramentsSacrifice, Nt Fulfilment OfRemembering ChristBlood Of The Covenantcommunionremembrance

Therefore, because we realize how greatly the Lord is to be feared, we are endeavouring to win men over, and God recognizes what our motives are, and I hope that you, in your hearts, recognize them too.

Verse ConceptsConvincingevangelists, ministry ofHope, Nature OfPersuasionReverence, And ObedienceAmbassadors For ChristResponsibilityKnowing Godconsciencemotives

Even as it is written, "He who gathered much had not too much, and he who gathered little had not too little."

Verse ConceptsGathering MuchLittle FoodPlenty For The PoorSurplus

Nay, when he was here in Rome, he took great pains to inquire where I was living, and at last he found me.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Church LeaderThose Looking For People

a Covenant unlike the one which I made with their forefathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt; for they would not remain faithful to that.' 'So I turned from them,' says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtGod's HandNot Like ThingsBreaking The CovenantGod Has Guided

For when Moses had proclaimed to all the people every commandment contained in the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats and with them water, scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Verse ConceptsCrimsonBranches, Types OfSprinklingWoolRed MaterialSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

this Priest, on the contrary, after offering for sins a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy, took His seat at God's right hand,

Verse ConceptsAtonement, Made OnceSittingChrist, The High PriestOnceRight SidesOnly Once

So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses.

Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing

Her children too shall surely die; and all the Churches shall come to know that I am He who searches into men's inmost thoughts; and to each of you I will give a requital which shall be in accordance with what your conduct has been.

Verse ConceptsOutward AppearanceSearchingJesus Christ, Omniscience OfGod KillingMan's ThoughtsGod Searching HeartsGod And The HeartGod Will Kill The PeoplesGod Will RequiteRepaid For DeedsBemaGod Knowing the Human HeartDeath Of A ChildPatience In Relationships

The sky too passed away, as if a scroll were being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

Verse ConceptsScrollsCataclysmMountains RemovedRollingThe Universe DestroyedSky, Figurative UseThe End Of The WorldEnd TimesMoving To A New Place

So the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and flung it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder, and voices, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

Verse ConceptsearthquakesLightningSymbolsThunderCensersFire From HeavenAltars, In HeavenAstronomical SignsThunder Showing God's Presence

So I took the roll out of the angel's hand and ate the whole of it; and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey, but when I had eaten it I found it very bitter.

Verse ConceptsBitter FoodSweetnessSlaves Of GodVoice Of The Archangel

And he took up a position upon the sands of the sea-shore. Then I saw a Wild Beast coming up out of the sea, and he had ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten kingly crowns, and inscribed on his heads were names full of blasphemy.

Verse ConceptsCreaturesBlasphemy, Examples OfThe BeastSeaSevenSeven Body PartsTen ThingsSeashoresHorns In AllegoryBlasphemyCrowns On CreaturesSand And GravelThe World Ruler

And another angel came out from the sanctuary in Heaven, and he too carried a sharp sickle.

Verse ConceptsSharp ToolsAngels Doing God's WorkThe Temple In Heaven

Then a single angel of great strength took a stone which resembled a huge millstone, and hurled it into the sea, saying, "So shall Babylon, that great city, be violently hurled down and never again be found.

Verse ConceptsMillstonesThings Passing AwayStrength Of AngelsDestruction Of BabylonBabylon DestroyedAngelsIn The Heart Of The Sea