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Acts 19:9

James Moffatt - New Testament

But as some grew stubborn and disobedient, decrying the Way in presence of the multitude, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued his argument every day from eleven to four in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

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It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened.

and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem.

But those people! — like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

The populace of the town was divided; some sided with the Jews, some with the apostles.

But these people scoff at anything they do not understand; and whatever they do understand, like irrational animals, by mere instinct, that proves their ruin.

and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);

Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened.

and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it —

Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women,

Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you!

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.

You are aware that all the Asiatics have discarded me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."

unless it was with the single sentence I uttered, when I stood and said, 'It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial to-day before you.'"

So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.

(Paul wanted to enter the popular assembly, but the disciples would not allow him.

Some were persuaded and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, including a host of devout Greeks and a large number of the leading women.

and on finding him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught considerable numbers. It was at Antioch too that the disciples were originally called "Christians."

He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me.

"It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, and no Sign shall be given to it except the Sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away.

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

for I have wide opportunities here for active service — and there are many to thwart me.




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