¹³ But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, ^(A)agitating and stirring up the crowds.

¹⁴ For you, brothers, ^(A)became imitators of ^(B)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^(C)you suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^(D)as they did from the Jews,^{[a] 15 (E)}who killed both the Lord Jesus and ^(F)the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and ^(G)oppose all mankind ^16 (H)by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always ^(I)to fill up the measure of their sins. But ^(J)wrath has come upon them at last!^[b]

Paul Arrested in the Temple

²⁷ When ^(A)the seven days were almost completed, ^(B)the Jews from Asia, ^(C)seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,

^5 (A)But the Jews^{[a] (B)}were jealous, and taking ^(C)some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.

^2 (A)But the ^(B)unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against ^(C)the brothers.^[a]

¹² And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,

¹³ “But woe ^(A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you ^(B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you ^(C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.^[a]

^51 (A)Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? ^(B)No, I tell you, but rather division.