Thematic Bible: In persecuting paul
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At this the high priest Ananias ordered the people standing near him to strike him on the mouth.
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But this enraged the Jews; so they got together some wicked loafers about the public square, formed a mob, and set the town in an uproar.
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and said, "This fellow is inducing people to worship God in ways that violate our laws."
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But the Jews stirred up the devout women of high rank and the men of first rank in town, and so started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
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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." For they had previously seen Trophimus of Ephesus in the city with him, and so they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. The whole city was stirred with excitement, and all at once the people rushed together, and seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and its gates at once were shut. read more.
Now while they were trying to kill him, news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a ferment.
Now while they were trying to kill him, news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a ferment.
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!" While they were shouting and tossing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air,
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