Acts 28:29 Cross References - WNT

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³⁴ "Do not suppose that I came to bring peace to the earth: I did not come to bring peace but a sword. ³⁵ For I came to set a man against his father, A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW; ³⁶ AND A MAN'S OWN FAMILY WILL BE HIS FOES.

⁵¹ Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you that I came to bring dissension.

⁴⁰ After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt the Prophet." ⁴¹ Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴² Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?" ⁴³ So there was a violent dissension among the people on His account. ⁴⁴ Some of them wanted at once to arrest Him, but no one laid hands upon Him. ⁴⁵ Meanwhile the officers returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him?" ⁴⁶ "No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks," said the officers. ⁴⁷ "Are *you* deluded too?" replied the Pharisees; ⁴⁸ "has any one of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this rabble who understand nothing about the Law are accursed!" ⁵⁰ Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus, being himself one of them. ⁵¹ "Does our Law," he asked, "judge a man without first hearing what he has to say and ascertaining what his conduct is?" ⁵² "Do you also come from Galilee?" they asked in reply. "Search and see for yourself that no Prophet is of Galilaean origin." ⁵³ So they went away to their several homes;

²⁵ Unable to agree among themselves, they at last left him, but not before Paul had spoken a parting word to them, saying, "Right well did the Holy Spirit say to your forefathers through the Prophet Isaiah: