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Acts 21:38

New English Translation

Then you’re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins’ into the wilderness some time ago?”

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So then, if someone says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.