Acts 5:36

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For [remember that] some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be someone [important], and that about four hundred people rallied [to his cause], but he was killed and all his men left him and nothing ever came of it.

Cross References

Acts 8:9

But a certain man named Simon, from there in Samaria, who had been amazing the people with his magical powers, was claiming to be someone great.

2 Peter 2:2

And many people will follow their unrestrained, indecent conduct, which will result in the true way [of God] being spoken against.

Revelation 17:5

And on her forehead was written a mysterious [name], “The great Babylon, the mother of the prostitutes and the disgusting things of the earth.”

Jude 1:16

These people are gripers and complainers, living according to their own [evil] desires, whose mouths speak boastfully, and who show partiality [toward certain people] to gain some advantage.

Galatians 6:3

For any person who thinks he is someone [important], when he is really nothing, is self-deceived.

Galatians 2:6

These apostles, who were highly regarded (although it really does not matter to me what they are, for God does not show partiality to any particular person); these men, I say, provided me with nothing [concern­ing the Gospel message].

Acts 21:38

Are you not the Egyptian who, awhile back, stirred up a revolt and led four thousand of the ‘Dagger Men’ out into the wilderness?”

Matthew 24:24

For false christs and false prophets will appear and they will perform great [miraculous] signs and [supernatural] wonders in order to lead astray even the elect [i.e., God’s people], if possible.

Revelation 17:3

Then, under the power of the Holy Spirit, the angel transported me to a desert, and [there] I saw a woman sitting on a red beast. It was covered with names that cursed God and it had seven heads and ten horns.

2 Peter 2:18

[Although] their talk is big, what they say is worthless, and by [offering people] fleshly desires [i.e., sexual gratification], they lead people astray, who are barely escaping from the error of the world.

Matthew 24:26

Therefore, if people say to you, ‘Look, he [i.e., Christ. See verse 23] is in the desert,’ do not go out there. [Or if they say], ‘Look, he is in an inside room,’ do not believe him.

Matthew 24:5

For many [false teachers] will come, claiming to be me, and saying, ‘I am the Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one]’ and they will lead many people away [from the truth].

Acts 5:35

And he said [to the Council members], “Men of Israel, be careful how you deal with these men.