Mat 23:13, Act 17:5, 1Th 2:14-16 | ESV | STEP | But woe to you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces . For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in .

Matthew 23:13

13 “But woe ^ato you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you ^bshut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you ^cneither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation}

Acts 17:5

5 ^eBut the Jews ^{▼▼Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verse 13} ^gwere jealous, and taking ^hsome wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

14 For you, brothers, ⁱbecame imitators of ^jthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^kyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^las they did from the Jews, ^{▼▼The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time} 15 ⁿwho killed both the Lord Jesus and ^othe prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and ^poppose all mankind 16 ^qby hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always ^rto fill up the measure of their sins. But ^swrath has come upon them at last! ^{▼▼Or completely, or forever}