Acts 28:22

"But we are eager to hear from you what it is that you believe; for we all know that as for this sect it is everywhere spoken against."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.

In Context

21They said to him. "We neither received any letters about you from Judea nor has any brother come hither to report or speak any harm of you.

23So they arranged a day with him and came to him in his lodgings in great numbers. He expounded the matter to them; testifying to the Kingdom of God, and persuading them about Jesus, from morning till evening, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

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Cross References

Acts 5:17This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,

Acts 16:20Then they brought them before the praetors, saying. "These fellows are Jews, who are making a great disturbance in our city.

Acts 24:5"For we have found this fellow a pest, an inciter of insurrection among all the Jews of the empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes.

Acts 26:5"They know me of old, if they are willing to testify, how that according to the strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

1 Peter 2:12Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

Matthew Henry on Acts 28:18-23

Paul at Rome. 17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. 18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me. 19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar; not that I… Read the whole commentary →

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