It was while I was doing this that they found me in the Temple after I had completed the ceremony of purification. There was no crowd with me and no disorder.

In this way they stirred up the people, the elders, and the teachers of the Law. They seized Stephen and took him before the Council.

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.

But the Jews who would not believe stirred up the Gentiles and turned them against the believers.

Then some Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, decided to mistreat the apostles and stone them.

Some Jews came from Antioch in Pisidia and from Iconium; they won the crowds over to their side, stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

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.

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,

But when the Jews in Thessalonica heard that Paul had preached the word of God in Berea also, they came there and started exciting and stirring up the mobs.

When Gallio was made the Roman governor of Achaia, Jews there got together, seized Paul, and took him into court.

(There was no one else who had devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in the LORD's sight as Ahab---all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.

So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day, since it was already late.

They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

It was for this reason that these Jews seized me while I was in the Temple, and they tried to kill me.

Before all these things take place, however, you will be arrested and persecuted; you will be handed over to be tried in synagogues and be put in prison; you will be brought before kings and rulers for my sake.