"You have a demon in you!" the crowd answered. "Who is trying to kill you?"

They asked Jesus, "Were we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon in you?"

They said to him, "Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say that whoever obeys your teaching will never die.

But the Pharisees said, "It is the chief of the demons who gives Jesus the power to drive out demons."

So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!

When his family heard about it, they set out to take charge of him, because people were saying, "He's gone mad!"

As Paul defended himself in this way, Festus shouted at him, "You are mad, Paul! Your great learning is driving you mad!"

The guards answered, "Nobody has ever talked the way this man does!"

"Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe in him?

One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus, the man who had gone to see Jesus before. He said to the others,

"Well," they answered, "are you also from Galilee? Study the Scriptures and you will learn that no prophet ever comes from Galilee."

He who comes from God listens to God's words. You, however, are not from God, and that is why you will not listen."

They insulted him and said, "You are that fellow's disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

We know that God spoke to Moses; as for that fellow, however, we do not even know where he comes from!"

He was arrested and sentenced and led off to die, and no one cared about his fate. He was put to death for the sins of our people.

Paul was about to speak when Gallio said to the Jews, "If this were a matter of some evil crime or wrong that has been committed, it would be reasonable for me to be patient with you Jews.

But since it is an argument about words and names and your own law, you yourselves must settle it. I will not be the judge of such things!"

All they had were some arguments with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus, who has died; but Paul claims that he is alive.

I was undecided about how I could get information on these matters, so I asked Paul if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

Then the king, the governor, Bernice, and all the others got up,

And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been released if he had not appealed to the Emperor."