Acts 17:5 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁵ This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.

¹⁸ For he knew that they had handed him over to him out of envy.

⁹ The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowd, they were very jealous, and they contradicted what Paul said and abused him.

² But the Jews who refused their message stirred up the heathen and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

¹⁹ But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

⁷ and Jason has taken them in. They all disobey the emperor's decrees, and claim that someone else called Jesus is king."

¹³ But when the Jews at Thessalonica found out that God's message had been delivered at Berea by Paul, they came there too, to excite and stir up the populace.

¹² While Gallio was governor of Greece the Jews made a concerted attack upon Paul, and brought him before the governor.

²⁴ A silversmith named Demetrius was making large profits for his workmen by the manufacture of silver shrines of Artemis. ²⁵ He got the workmen in that and similar trades together, and said to them, "Men, you know that this business is the source of our prosperity, ²⁶ and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and drawn away numbers of people, telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all. ²⁷ There is danger, therefore, not only that this business of ours will be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be neglected and the magnificence of her whom all Asia and the world worship will be a thing of the past!" ²⁸ When they heard this, they became very angry, and cried, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!" ²⁹ So the commotion spread all over the city, and by a common impulse the people rushed to the theater, dragging with them two Macedonians, Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions. ³⁰ Paul wanted to go before the people himself, but the disciples would not allow it. ³¹ Some of the religious authorities also, who were friends of his, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater. ³² Meanwhile the people were shouting, some one thing and some another, for the meeting was in confusion, and most of them had no idea why they had come together. ³³ Some of the crowd called upon Alexander, as the Jews had pushed him to the front, and he made a gesture with his hand and was going to speak in defense of them to the people. ³⁴ But when they saw that he was a Jew, a great shout went up from them all, and they cried for two hours, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!"

⁴⁰ For we are in danger of being charged with rioting in connection with today's events, though there is really nothing about this commotion that we will not be able to explain."

²¹ My fellow-worker, Timothy, wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow-countrymen.

³ for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?

²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

²⁶ Let us not in our vanity challenge one another or envy one another.

¹⁴ For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you in your turn had to bear the same ill-treatment from your neighbors as they did from the Jews, ¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind ¹⁶ try to keep us from speaking to the heathen so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has overtaken them at last!

⁵ Do you suppose the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He yearns jealously over the Spirit he has put in our hearts?"