Acts 17:6
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6 And when they could not find them, (A)they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
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Acts 24:5
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5 For we have found this man a plague, (A)one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of (B)the sect of the Nazarenes.
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Acts 16:19-21
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19 But (A)when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and (B)dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. 20 And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city. 21 They (C)advocate customs that are not lawful for us (D)as Romans to accept or practice.”
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Acts 28:22
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22 But we desire to hear from you what your views are, for with regard to this (A)sect we know that everywhere (B)it is spoken against.”
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Luke 23:5
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5 But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, (A)from Galilee even to this place.”
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Acts 21:28-31
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28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who (A)is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and (B)the law and (C)this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and (D)has defiled (E)this holy place.” 29 For they had previously seen (F)Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. 30 Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and (G)dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut. 31 (H)And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of (I)the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
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Acts 22:22-23
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Paul and the Roman Tribune
22 Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, (A)“Away with such a fellow from the earth! For (B)he should not be allowed to live.” 23 And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air,
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Acts 18:12-13
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12 But when Gallio was (A)proconsul of Achaia, (B)the Jews[a] made a united attack on Paul and (C)brought him before the tribunal, 13 saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to (D)the law.”
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- Acts 18:12 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 14 (twice), 28
Acts 6:12-13
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12 And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council, 13 and they (A)set up false (B)witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against (C)this holy place and the law,
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Matthew 24:14
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14 And this gospel of the kingdom (A)will be proclaimed throughout the whole world (B)as a testimony (C)to all nations, and (D)then the end will come.
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Jeremiah 38:2-4
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2 “Thus says the Lord: (A)He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, (B)but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live. 3 Thus says the Lord: (C)This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken.” 4 Then the officials said to the king, (D)“Let this man be put to death, (E)for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking (F)the welfare of this people, but their harm.”
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1 Kings 18:17-18
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17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, (A)“Is it you, you (B)troubler of Israel?” 18 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have (C)abandoned the commandments of the Lord and (D)followed the Baals.
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Amos 7:10
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Amos Accused
10 Then Amaziah (A)the priest of Bethel sent to (B)Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has (C)conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
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Exodus 3:8-9
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8 and (A)I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and (B)to bring them up out of that land to a (C)good and broad land, a land (D)flowing with milk and honey, to the place of (E)the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, (F)the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the (G)oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
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