TSK · Acts 24:5

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him,“Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?”

The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.

So these officials said to the king,“This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.”

He came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house‘Beelzebul,’ how much worse will they call the members of his household!

But they persisted in saying,“He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

They brought forward false witnesses who said,“This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said,“These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews

shouting,“Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!”

But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way(which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it.”

For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.