Acts 17:6 Cross References

Acts 17:6

6: Not finding them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the other believers instead and took them before the city council. "Paul and Silas have turned the rest of the world upside down, and now they are here disturbing our city," they shouted.

Acts 24:5

  1. For we have found him to be a troublemaker, a man who is constantly inciting the Jews throughout the world to riots and rebellions against the Roman government. He is a ringleader of the sect known as the Nazarenes.

Acts 16:19

  1. Her masters' hopes of wealth were now shattered, so they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities at the marketplace.
  2. "The whole city is in an uproar because of these Jews!" they shouted.
  3. "They are teaching the people to do things that are against Roman customs."

Acts 28:22

  1. But we want to hear what you believe, for the only thing we know about these Christians is that they are denounced everywhere."

Luke 23:5

  1. Then they became desperate. "But he is causing riots everywhere he goes, all over Judea, from Galilee to Jerusalem!"

Acts 22:22

  1. The crowd listened until Paul came to that word; then with one voice they shouted, "Away with such a fellow! Kill him! He isn't fit to live!"
  2. They yelled, threw off their coats, and tossed handfuls of dust into the air.

Exodus 3:8

  1. So I have come to rescue them from the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own good and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey--the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites live.
  2. The cries of the people of Israel have reached me, and I have seen how the Egyptians have oppressed them with heavy tasks.

Acts 18:12

  1. But when Gallio became governor of Achaia, some Jews rose in concerted action against Paul and brought him before the governor for judgment.
  2. They accused Paul of "persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law."

Acts 21:28

  1. yelling, "Men of Israel! Help! This is the man who teaches against our people and tells everybody to disobey the Jewish laws. He speaks against the Temple--and he even defiles it by bringing Gentiles in!"
  2. (For earlier that day they had seen him in the city with Trophimus, a Gentile from Ephesus, and they assumed Paul had taken him into the Temple.)
  3. The whole population of the city was rocked by these accusations, and a great riot followed. Paul was dragged out of the Temple, and immediately the gates were closed behind him.
  4. As they were trying to kill him, word reached the commander of the Roman regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

1 Kings 18:17

  1. "So it's you, is it--Israel's troublemaker?" Ahab asked when he saw him.
  2. "I have made no trouble for Israel," Elijah replied. "You and your family are the troublemakers, for you have refused to obey the commands of the LORD and have worshiped the images of Baal instead.

Jeremiah 38:2

  1. "This is what the LORD says: Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or disease, but those who surrender to the Babylonians will live.
  2. The LORD also says: The city of Jerusalem will surely be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it."
  3. So these officials went to the king and said, "Sir, this man must die! That kind of talk will undermine the morale of the few fighting men we have left, as well as that of all the people, too. This man is a traitor!"

Matthew 24:14

  1. And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then, finally, the end will come.

Acts 6:12

  1. Naturally, this roused the crowds, the elders, and the teachers of religious law. So they arrested Stephen and brought him before the high council.
  2. The lying witnesses said, "This man is always speaking against the Temple and against the law of Moses.

Amos 7:10

  1. But when Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, heard what Amos was saying, he rushed a message to King Jeroboam: "Amos is hatching a plot against you right here on your very doorstep! What he is saying is intolerable. It will lead to rebellion all across the land.
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