Acts 26:24
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Paul Appeals to Agrippa to Believe
24 While he was making this defense, Festus exclaimed, “You are out of your mind, Paul! Too much learning is driving you insane!”(A)
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1 Corinthians 2:13-14
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13 And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.[a](A)
14 Those who are unspiritual[b] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(B)
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1 Corinthians 1:23
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23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to gentiles,(A)
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2 Corinthians 5:13
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13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.(A)
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1 Corinthians 4:10
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10 We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are sensible people in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.(A)
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Mark 3:21
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21 When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”(A)
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Acts 26:11
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11 By punishing them often in all the synagogues I tried to force them to blaspheme, and since I was so furiously enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.(A)
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Jeremiah 29:26
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26 The Lord himself has made you priest instead of the priest Jehoiada, so that there may be officers in the house of the Lord to control any madman who plays the prophet, to put him in the stocks and the collar.(A)
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2 Kings 9:11
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11 When Jehu came back to his master’s officers, they said to him, “Is everything all right? Why did that madman come to you?” He answered them, “You know the sort and how they babble.”
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Acts 17:32
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32 When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
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John 10:20-21
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20 Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is out of his mind. Why listen to him?”(A) 21 Others were saying, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”(B)
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Hosea 9:7
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7 The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come.
Israel will cry out,[a]
“The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad!”
Because of your great iniquity,
your hostility is great.(A)
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- 9.7 Or will know
Acts 25:19-20
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19 Instead, they had certain points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died but whom Paul asserted to be alive.(A) 20 Since I was at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.[a](B)
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- 25.20 Gk on them
Acts 24:25
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25 And as he discussed justice, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for the present; when I have an opportunity, I will send for you.”(A)
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Acts 22:1
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22 “Brothers[a] and fathers, listen to the defense that I now make before you.”(A)
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- 22.1 Gk Men, brothers
John 8:52
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52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet you say, ‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’(A)
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John 8:48
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48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”(A)
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John 7:15
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15 The Jews were astonished at it, saying, “How does this man have such learning, when he has never been taught?”(A)
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