Ezra 4:15

15in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.

Esther 3:8

8Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. aTheir laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.

Psalms 27:12

12 bGive me not up to the will of my adversaries;
for cfalse witnesses have risen against me,
and they dbreathe out violence.

Psalms 35:11

11 eMalicious
Or Violent
witnesses rise up;
they ask me of things that I do not know.

Matthew 5:11-12

11 gBlessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely hon my account. 12 iRejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for jso they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Acts 21:28

28crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who kis teaching everyone everywhere against the people and lthe law and mthis place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and nhas defiled othis holy place.”

Acts 24:5-6

5For we have found this man a plague, pone who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of qthe sect of the Nazarenes. 6 rHe even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.
Some manuscripts add and we would have judged him according to our law. 7But the chief captain Lysias came and with great violence took him out of our hands, 8commanding his accusers to come before you.

Acts 24:13

13 tNeither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.

Acts 25:24

24And Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom uthe whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, vshouting that he ought not to live any longer.
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