“This man,” they said, “is trying to persuade people to worship God in a way that is against the law!”
The crowd answered back, “We have a law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
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!”
He held discussions in the synagogue every Sabbath, trying to convince both Jews and Greeks.
“People of Israel!” they shouted. “Help! This is the man who goes everywhere teaching everyone against the people of Israel, the Law of Moses, and this Temple. And now he has even brought some Gentiles into the Temple and defiled this holy place!” (
But Paul defended himself: “I have done nothing wrong against the Law of the Jews or against the Temple or against the Roman Emperor.”
Then they brought in some men to tell lies about him. “This man,” they said, “is always talking against our sacred Temple and the Law of Moses.