Bible Cross References
Why
2 Chronicles 25:16
"Since when," Amaziah interrupted, "have we made you adviser to the king? Stop talking, or I'll have you killed!" The prophet stopped, but not before saying, "Now I know that God has decided to destroy you because you have done all this and have ignored my advice."
Isaiah 29:21
God will destroy those who slander others, those who prevent the punishment of criminals, and those who tell lies to keep honest people from getting justice.
Isaiah 30:9-11
9
They are always rebelling against God, always lying, always refusing to listen to the LORD's teachings.
10
They tell the prophets to keep quiet. They say, "Don't talk to us about what's right. Tell us what we want to hear. Let us keep our illusions.
11
Get out of our way and stop blocking our path. We don't want to hear about your holy God of Israel."
Amos 5:10
You people hate anyone who challenges injustice and speaks the whole truth in court.
Amos 7:10-13
10
Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, then sent a report to King Jeroboam of Israel: "Amos is plotting against you among the people. His speeches will destroy the country.
11
This is what he says: 'Jeroboam will die in battle, and the people of Israel will be taken away from their land into exile.' "
12
Amaziah then said to Amos, "That's enough, prophet! Go on back to Judah and do your preaching there. Let them pay you for it.
13
Don't prophesy here at Bethel any more. This is the king's place of worship, the national temple."
Micah 2:6
The people preach at me and say, "Don't preach at us. Don't preach about all that. God is not going to disgrace us.
Matthew 21:23
Jesus came back to the Temple; and as he taught, the chief priests and the elders came to him and asked, "What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you such right?"
Acts 4:17-19
17
But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn these men never again to speak to anyone in the name of Jesus."
18
So they called them back in and told them that under no condition were they to speak or to teach in the name of Jesus.
19
But Peter and John answered them, "You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight---to obey you or to obey God.
Acts 5:28
"We gave you strict orders not to teach in the name of this man," he said; "but see what you have done! You have spread your teaching all over Jerusalem, and you want to make us responsible for his death!"
Acts 6:14
We heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will tear down the Temple and change all the customs which have come down to us from Moses!"
And all
Matthew 27:20
The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask Pilate to set Barabbas free and have Jesus put to death.
Mark 15:11
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask, instead, that Pilate set Barabbas free for them.
Acts 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the leading men of the city and the Gentile women of high social standing who worshiped God. They started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their region.
Acts 16:19-22
19
When her owners realized that their chance of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the authorities in the public square.
20
They brought them before the Roman officials and said, "These men are Jews, and they are causing trouble in our city.
21
They are teaching customs that are against our law; we are Roman citizens, and we cannot accept these customs or practice them."
22
And the crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas. Then the officials tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be whipped.
Acts 17:5-8
5
But some Jews were jealous and gathered worthless loafers from the streets and formed a mob. They set the whole city in an uproar and attacked the home of a man named Jason, in an attempt to find Paul and Silas and bring them out to the people.
6
But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city authorities and shouted, "These men have caused trouble everywhere! Now they have come to our city,
7
and Jason has kept them in his house. They are all breaking the laws of the Emperor, saying that there is another king, whose name is Jesus."
8
With these words they threw the crowd and the city authorities in an uproar.
Acts 19:24-32
24
A certain silversmith named Demetrius made silver models of the temple of the goddess Artemis, and his business brought a great deal of profit to the workers.
25
So he called them all together with others whose work was like theirs and said to them, "Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this work.
26
Now, you can see and hear for yourselves what this fellow Paul is doing. He says that hand-made gods are not gods at all, and he has succeeded in convincing many people, both here in Ephesus and in nearly the whole province of Asia.
27
There is the danger, then, that this business of ours will get a bad name. Not only that, but there is also the danger that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will come to mean nothing and that her greatness will be destroyed---the goddess worshiped by everyone in Asia and in all the world!"
28
As the crowd heard these words, they became furious and started shouting, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"
29
The uproar spread throughout the whole city. The mob grabbed Gaius and Aristarchus, two Macedonians who were traveling with Paul, and rushed with them to the theater.
30
Paul himself wanted to go before the crowd, but the believers would not let him.
31
Some of the provincial authorities, who were his friends, also sent him a message begging him not to show himself in the theater.
32
Meanwhile the whole meeting was in an uproar: some people were shouting one thing, others were shouting something else, because most of them did not even know why they had come together.
Acts 21:30
Confusion spread through the whole city, and the people all ran together, grabbed Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple. At once the Temple doors were closed.
Acts 22:22
The people listened to Paul until he said this; but then they started shouting at the top of their voices, "Away with him! Kill him! He's not fit to live!"
in the
John 8:20
Jesus said all this as he taught in the Temple, in the room where the offering boxes were placed. And no one arrested him, because his hour had not come.
John 8:59
Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.