Acts 23:9

Pharisaic scribes rise to defend Paul, conceding a spirit or angel may have spoken to him. His former party finds no fault in him.

Cross-references · 20

• Acts 22:17–18And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
• Acts 22:7And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
• John 12:29The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
• Acts 25:25But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
• Acts 23:29Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
• Prov 16:7When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• Mark 2:16And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
• Acts 26:31And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
• Acts 5:39But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
• 1 Cor 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
• Acts 9:4And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
• Luke 23:4Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
• 1 Sam 24:17And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
• Acts 11:17Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
• Acts 26:14–19And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
• Luke 5:30But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
• Luke 23:22And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
• Luke 23:14–15Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
• Acts 27:23For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
• Acts 23:8For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

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