Ezr 4:12, Neh 4:2, Act 18:14-16, 23:29, 25:19-20, Rom 3:1-2 | ESV | STEP | be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem . They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city . They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations .

Ezra 4:12

12 be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are ^afinishing the walls and repairing the foundations.

Nehemiah 4:2

2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of ^bSamaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? ^{▼▼Or Will they commit themselves to God?} Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”

Acts 18:14-16

14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious ^dcrime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint. 15 But ^esince it is a matter of questions about words and names and ^fyour own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.” 16 And he drove them from the tribunal.

Acts 23:29

29 I found that he was being accused ^gabout questions of their law, but ^hcharged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.

Acts 25:19-20

19 Rather they ⁱhad certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about ^ja certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive. 20 Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I ^kasked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.

Romans 3:1-2

God’s Righteousness Upheld

1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Much in every way. To begin with, ^lthe Jews were entrusted with ^mthe oracles of God.