Acts 17:5

New American Bible - revised edition

But the Jews became jealous and recruited some worthless men loitering in the public square, formed a mob, and set the city in turmoil. They marched on the house of Jason, intending to bring them before the people’s assembly.

Cross References

Psalm 35:15

Yet when I stumbled they gathered with glee, gathered against me and I did not know it. They slandered me without ceasing;

Psalm 69:12

When I clothed myself in sackcloth; I became a byword for them.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil mind gives life to the body, but jealousy rots the bones.

Isaiah 26:11

Lord, your hand is raised high, but they do not perceive it; Let them be put to shame when they see your zeal for your people: let the fire prepared for your enemies consume them.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that it was out of envy that they had handed him over.

Acts 13:45

When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and with violent abuse contradicted what Paul said.

Acts 14:19

However, some Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Acts 14:2

although the disbelieving Jews stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.

Acts 17:13

But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had now been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea also, they came there too to cause a commotion and stir up the crowds.

Acts 17:6

When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city magistrates, shouting, “These people who have been creating a disturbance all over the world have now come here,

Acts 17:7

and Jason has welcomed them. They all act in opposition to the decrees of Caesar and claim instead that there is another king, Jesus.”

Acts 17:9

took a surety payment from Jason and the others before releasing them. Paul in Beroea.

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him to the tribunal,

Acts 19:40

for, as it is, we are in danger of being charged with rioting because of today’s conduct. There is no cause for it. We shall [not] be able to give a reason for this demonstration.” With these words he dismissed the assembly.

Acts 7:9

“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him

Romans 16:21

Timothy, my co-worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving in an ordinary human way?

2 Corinthians 11:26

on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own race, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers;

Galatians 5:21

occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envious of one another.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the holy Spirit,

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning when it says, “The spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy”?

Judges 9:4

They also gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless men and outlaws as his followers.