SELF-DEFENSE

Passages on this topic · 26

• Matthew 27:11

  Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

• Matthew 27:12

  When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

• Matthew 27:13

  Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”

• Matthew 27:14

  He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

• Mark 15:2

  Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”

• 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.

• Luke 23:3

  Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

• John 7:51

  “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

• Acts 2:37

  Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

• Acts 2:38

  Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

• Acts 2:39

  For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

• Acts 2:40

  With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

• 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!’”