CIN Religion Invading Neighbor

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.

But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,

The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.