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Acts 23:9

Weymouth NT

So there arose a great uproar; and some of the Scribes belonging to the sect of the Pharisees sprang to their feet and fiercely contended, saying, »We find no harm in the man. What if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel–!«

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But when the Scribes of the Pharisee sect saw Him eating with the sinners and the tax-gatherers, they said to His disciples, »He is eating and drinking with the tax-gatherers and sinners!«

A third time he appealed to them: »Why, what crime has the man committed? I have discovered in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him.«

Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, »I can find no crime in this man.«

This led the Pharisees and Scribes of their party to expostulate with His disciples and ask, »Why are you eating and drinking with these tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?«

The crowd that stood by and heard it, said that there had been thunder. Others said, »An angel spoke to him.«

»If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, why, who was I to be able to thwart God?«

»But on my way, when I was now not far from Damascus, about noon a sudden blaze of light from Heaven shone round me.

I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, »`Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?'

and I discovered that the charge had to do with questions of their Law, but that he was accused of nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment.

For the Sadducees maintain that there is no resurrection, and neither angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees acknowledge the existence of both.

I could not discover that he had done anything for which he deserved to die; but as he has himself appealed to the Emperor, I have decided to send him to Rome.

and, having withdrawn, they talked to one another and said, »This man is doing nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment.«

For there stood by my side, last night, an angel of the God to whom I belong, and whom also I worship,

But if it is really from God, you will be powerless to put them down–lest perhaps you find yourselves to be actually fighting against God.«

and falling to the ground he heard a voice which said to him, »Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?«

Or are we actually arousing the Lord to jealousy. Are we stronger than He is?




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