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Acts 21:38

New American Bible - revised edition

So then you are not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led the four thousand assassins into the desert?”

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So if they say to you, ‘He is in the desert,’ do not go out there; if they say, ‘He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me.

A man called Barabbas was then in prison along with the rebels who had committed murder in a rebellion.

(Now Barabbas had been imprisoned for a rebellion that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

when slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the world’s rubbish, the scum of all, to this very moment.