Acts 17:18
18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, a“What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because bhe was preaching cJesus and the resurrection.Acts 21:37-38
Paul Speaks to the People
37As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek? 38Are you not dthe Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out einto the wilderness?”Acts 25:14-15
14And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, f“There is a man left prisoner by Felix, 15and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid out their case gagainst him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.Acts 25:19
19Rather they hhad certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about ia certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.Acts 25:26
26But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.1 Corinthians 4:9
9For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, jlike men sentenced to death, because we khave become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
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