DEFENSE

Passages on this topic · 59

• 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.”

• 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 4:13

  Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

• Acts 5:23

  “We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

• Acts 5:24

  Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

• 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 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 24:10

  When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

• Acts 24:11

  seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

• Acts 24:12

  In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

• Acts 24:13

  Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

• Acts 24:14

  But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

• Acts 24:15

  having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

• Acts 24:16

  Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

• Acts 24:17

  Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

• Acts 24:18

  amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

• Acts 24:19

  They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

• Acts 24:20

  Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

• Acts 24:21

  unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’”

• 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.”