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Acts 17:5

James Moffatt - New Testament

But the Jews were aroused to jealousy; they got hold of some idle rascals to form a mob and set the town in an uproar; they attacked Jason's house in the endeavour to bring them out before the populace,

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let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.

envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

Timotheus my fellow-worker salutes you; so do my fellow countrymen Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater.

Jason has welcomed them! They all violate the decrees of Caesar by declaring someone else called Jesus is king."

[Move to follow vs 3] But the refractory Jews stirred up and exasperated the feeling of the Gentiles against the brothers.

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

Indeed there is a danger of our being charged with riot over to-day's meeting; there is not a single reason we can give for this disorderly gathering."

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia the Jews without exception rose against Paul and brought him up before the tribunal,

But Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived, who won over the crowds, and after pelting Paul with stones they dragged him outside the town, thinking he was dead.

But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

(He knew quite well that Jesus had been delivered up out of envy.

What, do you consider this is an idle word of scripture? — 'He yearns jealously for the spirit he set within us.')

Out of jealousy the patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him,

but as they failed to find Paul and Silas they haled Jason and some of the brothers before the politarchs, yelling, "These upsetters of the whole world have come here too!

however, they let Jason and the others go, after binding them over to keep the peace.

I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers —

and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.




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