Acts 17:9
After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.
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- Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.
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- Acts 17:4-85 verses81%
4Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.
5But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.
6When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming,“These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,
7and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”
8They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.
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10Paul and Silas at Berea The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.
- Acts 16:35-406 verses80%
35At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying,“Release those men.”
36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying,“The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”
37But Paul said to the police officers,“They had us beaten in public without a proper trial– even though we are Roman citizens– and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!”
38The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas were Roman citizens
39and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.
40When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia’s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed.
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33After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.
- Acts 16:22-243 verses75%
22The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
23After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.
24Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
- Acts 17:13-153 verses74%
13But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.
14Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.
15Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.
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1Paul and Silas at Thessalonica After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
- Acts 16:19-202 verses71%
19But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.
20When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said,“These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews
- Acts 21:29-324 verses71%
29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)
30The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.
31While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
32He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
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6Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.
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33So Paul left the Areopagus.
- Acts 22:29-302 verses71%
29Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up.
30Paul Before the Sanhedrin The next day, because the commanding officer wanted to know the true reason Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole council to assemble. He then brought Paul down and had him stand before them.
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10When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.
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23The Followers of Jesus Pray for Boldness When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.
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21After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.
- Acts 19:29-302 verses69%
29The city was filled with the uproar, and the crowd rushed to the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.
30But when Paul wanted to enter the public assembly, the disciples would not let him.
- Acts 5:22-232 verses69%
22But the officers who came for them did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,
23“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
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40and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.
- Acts 28:16-183 verses69%
16When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.
17Paul Addresses the Jewish Community in Rome After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them,“Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.
18When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.
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30When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
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18Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.
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30So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,
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31So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.
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12Paul Before the Proconsul Gallio Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,
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6They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders let them go.
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30Then he brought them outside and asked,“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
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26Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds of all the prisoners came loose.