Thematic Bible: In persecuting paul
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At this the high priest Ananias ordered the people who were standing nearest to him to strike him on the mouth.
This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.
"This fellow," they said, "is trying to induce people to worship God in ways that are against the law."
But the Jews stirred up the well-to-do religious women and the leading men of the town, and they started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place." For they had previously seen Trophimus of Ephesus with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the Temple. The whole city was thrown into confusion, and the people hurried together, and seized Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple, the gates of which were immediately shut. read more.
They were trying to kill him when the news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a tumult.
They were trying to kill him when the news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a tumult.
They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!" As they were shouting and throwing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air,
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