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• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Exodus 18:22

  Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

• Exodus 18:23

  If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

• Exodus 18:24

  So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

• Exodus 18:25

  Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Exodus 18:26

  They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

• Exodus 23:2

  “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

• Exodus 23:3

  You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

• Exodus 23:6

  “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

• Exodus 23:7

  “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

• Exodus 23:8

  “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Numbers 27:2

  They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

• Deuteronomy 1:15

  So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

• Deuteronomy 1:16

  I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

• Deuteronomy 1:17

  You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

• Deuteronomy 17:8

  If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

• Deuteronomy 17:9

  You shall come to the priests who are Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

• Deuteronomy 17:10

  You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

• Deuteronomy 17:11

  according to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

• Deuteronomy 17:12

  The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

• Deuteronomy 17:13

  All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

• Deuteronomy 21:19

  then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

• Deuteronomy 22:15

  then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

• Deuteronomy 25:1

  If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

• Deuteronomy 25:7

  If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

• Joshua 20:4

  He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

• Judges 4:5

  She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

• Ruth 4:1

  Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. He said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down.

• Ruth 4:2

  He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

• Ruth 4:3

  He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

• Ruth 4:4

  I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.”

• Ruth 4:5

  Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

• 1 Samuel 7:15

  Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

• 1 Samuel 7:16

  He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

• 1 Samuel 7:17

  His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.

• 1 Chronicles 26:29

  Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

• 1 Chronicles 26:30

  Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.

• 1 Chronicles 26:31

  Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of David, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead.

• 1 Chronicles 26:32

  His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.

• 2 Chronicles 19:5

  He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

• 2 Chronicles 19:6

  and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

• 2 Chronicles 19:7

  Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

• 2 Chronicles 19:8

  Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 19:9

  He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

• 2 Chronicles 19:10

  Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

• 2 Chronicles 19:11

  Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”

• Proverbs 17:15

  He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• Proverbs 29:26

  Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Isaiah 5:23

  who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

• Isaiah 10:1

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

• Isaiah 10:2

  to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

• Jeremiah 26:11

  Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

• Jeremiah 26:12

  Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

• Jeremiah 26:13

  Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; and Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

• Jeremiah 26:14

  But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes.

• Jeremiah 26:15

  Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

• Jeremiah 26:16

  Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”

• Micah 3:11

  Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

• Micah 5:1

  Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

• Micah 7:3

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Zephaniah 3:3

  Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

• Zechariah 8:16

  These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

• Matthew 18:15

  “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

• Matthew 18:16

  But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

• Matthew 18:17

  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

• Matthew 18:18

  Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

• Matthew 26:54

  How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

• Matthew 26:55

  In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

• Matthew 26:57

  Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

• Matthew 26:58

  But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

• Matthew 26:59

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

• Matthew 26:60

  and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

• Matthew 26:61

  and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”

• Matthew 26:62

  The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

• Matthew 26:63

  But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

• Matthew 26:64

  Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

• Matthew 26:65

  Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

• Matthew 26:66

  What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”

• Matthew 26:67

  Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

• Matthew 26:68

  saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?”

• Matthew 26:69

  Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”

• Matthew 26:70

  But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

• Matthew 26:71

  When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

• Matthew 27:18

  For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

• Matthew 27:19

  While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

• Matthew 27:20

  Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

• Matthew 27:21

  But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, “Barabbas!”

• Matthew 27:22

  Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”

• Matthew 27:23

  But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”

• Matthew 27:24

  So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

• Matthew 27:25

  All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

• Matthew 27:26

  Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

• Mark 14:53

  They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

• Mark 14:55

  Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

• Mark 14:56

  For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.

• Mark 14:57

  Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

• Mark 14:58

  “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

• Mark 14:59

  Even so, their testimony did not agree.

• Mark 14:60

  The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?”

• Mark 14:61

  But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

• Mark 14:62

  Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

• Mark 14:63

  The high priest tore his clothes, and said, “What further need have we of witnesses?

• Mark 14:64

  You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

• Mark 14:65

  Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

• Mark 15:1

  Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

• Mark 15:3

  The chief priests accused him of many things.

• Mark 15:4

  Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!”

• Mark 15:5

  But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

• Mark 15:10

  For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

• Luke 22:50

  A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

• Luke 22:51

  But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this” — and he touched his ear, and healed him.

• Luke 22:52

  Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

• Luke 22:53

  When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

• Luke 22:54

  They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

• Luke 22:55

  When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

• Luke 22:56

  A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

• Luke 22:57

  He denied Jesus, saying, “Woman, I don’t know him.”

• Luke 22:58

  After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!” But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”

• Luke 22:59

  After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!”

• Luke 22:60

  But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

• Luke 22:61

  The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”

• Luke 22:62

  He went out, and wept bitterly.

• Luke 22:63

  The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

• Luke 22:64

  Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

• Luke 22:65

  They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

• Luke 22:66

  As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

• Luke 22:67

  “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t believe,

• Luke 22:68

  and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.

• Luke 22:69

  From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

• Luke 22:70

  They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”

• Luke 22:71

  They said, “Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!”

• John 18:13

  and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

• John 18:14

  Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.

• John 18:15

  Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;

• John 18:16

  but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.

• John 18:17

  Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.”

• John 18:18

  Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.

• John 18:19

  The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching.

• John 18:20

  Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

• John 18:21

  Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said.”

• John 18:22

  When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

• John 18:23

  Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”

• John 18:24

  Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

• John 18:25

  Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it, and said, “I am not.”

• John 18:26

  One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”

• John 18:27

  Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

• John 18:28

  They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

• John 20:23

  If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

• Acts 4:8

  Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

• Acts 4:9

  if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

• Acts 4:10

  be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

• Acts 4:11

  He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

• Acts 4:12

  There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

• Acts 4:15

  But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

• Acts 4:16

  saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.

• Acts 4:17

  But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”

• Acts 4:18

  They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

• Acts 4:19

  But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

• Acts 4:20

  for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

• Acts 5:17

  But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

• Acts 5:18

  and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.

• Acts 5:19

  But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

• Acts 5:20

  “Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

• Acts 5:21

  When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

• Acts 5:25

  One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”

• Acts 5:26

  Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

• Acts 5:27

  When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

• Acts 5:28

  saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

• Acts 5:29

  But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

• Acts 5:30

  The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

• Acts 5:31

  God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

• Acts 5:32

  We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

• Acts 5:34

  But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

• Acts 5:38

  Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

• Acts 5:39

  But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

• Acts 5:40

  They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

• Acts 5:41

  They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

• Acts 6:11

  Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

• Acts 6:12

  They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

• Acts 6:13

  and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

• Acts 6:14

  For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

• Acts 7:1

  The high priest said, “Are these things so?”

• Acts 7:2

  He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

• Acts 7:3

  and said to him, ‘Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’

• Acts 7:4

  Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

• Acts 7:5

  He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.

• Acts 7:6

  God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

• Acts 7:7

  ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.’

• Acts 7:8

  He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

• Acts 7:9

  “The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

• Acts 7:10

  and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

• Acts 7:11

  Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

• Acts 7:12

  But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

• Acts 7:13

  On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.

• Acts 7:14

  Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

• Acts 7:15

  Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

• Acts 7:16

  and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

• Acts 7:17

  “But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

• Acts 7:18

  until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.

• Acts 7:19

  The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

• Acts 7:20

  At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

• Acts 7:21

  When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

• Acts 7:22

  Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

• Acts 7:23

  But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

• Acts 7:24

  Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

• Acts 7:25

  He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

• Acts 7:26

  “The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’

• Acts 7:27

  But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

• Acts 7:28

  Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’

• Acts 7:29

  Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

• Acts 7:30

  “When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

• Acts 7:31

  When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

• Acts 7:32

  ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and dared not look.

• Acts 7:33

  The Lord said to him, ‘Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

• Acts 7:34

  I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’

• Acts 7:35

  “This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ — God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

• Acts 7:36

  This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

• Acts 7:37

  This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’

• Acts 7:38

  This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

• Acts 7:39

  to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

• Acts 7:40

  saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

• Acts 7:41

  They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

• Acts 7:42

  But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

• Acts 7:43

  You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’

• Acts 7:44

  “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

• Acts 7:45

  which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,

• Acts 7:46

  who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

• Acts 7:47

  But Solomon built him a house.

• Acts 7:48

  However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

• Acts 7:49

  ‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord; ‘or what is the place of my rest?

• Acts 7:50

  Didn’t my hand make all these things?’

• Acts 7:51

  “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

• Acts 7:52

  Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

• Acts 7:53

  You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

• Acts 7:54

  Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

• Acts 7:55

  But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

• Acts 7:56

  and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

• Acts 23:1

  Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

• Acts 23:2

  The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

• Acts 23:3

  Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”

• Acts 23:4

  Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s high priest?”

• Acts 23:5

  Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”

• Acts 23:6

  But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

• Acts 23:7

  When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.

• Acts 24:26

  Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often, and talked with him.

• Acts 24:27

  But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

• Acts 26:1

  Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

• Acts 26:2

  “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

• Acts 26:3

  especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

• Acts 26:4

  “Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

• Acts 26:5

  having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

• Acts 26:6

  Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

• Acts 26:7

  which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

• Acts 26:8

  Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

• Acts 26:9

  “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

• Acts 26:10

  This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

• Acts 26:11

  Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

• Acts 26:12

  “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

• Acts 26:13

  at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

• Acts 26:14

  When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

• Acts 26:15

  “I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

• Acts 26:16

  But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

• Acts 26:17

  delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

• Acts 26:18

  to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

• Acts 26:19

  “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

• Acts 26:20

  but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

• Acts 26:21

  For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

• Acts 26:22

  Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

• Acts 26:23

  how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

• Acts 26:24

  As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

• Acts 26:25

  But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

• Acts 26:26

  For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

• Acts 26:27

  King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”

• Acts 26:28

  Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

• Acts 26:29

  Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

• Acts 26:30

  The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

• Acts 26:31

  When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

• Acts 26:32

  Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”