28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who (A)is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and (B)the law and (C)this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and (D)has defiled (E)this holy place.”

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For we have found this man a plague, (A)one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of (B)the sect of the Nazarenes. (C)He even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 24:6 Some manuscripts add and we would have judged him according to our law. 7But the chief captain Lysias came and with great violence took him out of our hands, 8commanding his accusers to come before you.

21 and they have been told about you that you teach all (A)the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, (B)telling them (C)not to circumcise their children or (D)walk according to (E)our customs.

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20 but declared first (A)to those in Damascus, (B)then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also (C)to the Gentiles, that they should (D)repent and (E)turn to God, performing deeds (F)in keeping with their repentance. 21 For this reason (G)the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

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18 While I was doing this, they found me (A)purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But (B)some Jews from Asia—

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26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, (A)saying that (B)gods made with hands are not gods. 27 And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the (C)great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”

28 When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, (D)“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

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13 and they (A)set up false (B)witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against (C)this holy place and the law, 14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth (D)will destroy this place and will (E)change (F)the customs that Moses delivered to us.”

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The Abomination of Desolation

15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation (A)spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in (B)the holy place ((C)let the reader understand),

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10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her (A)precious things;
for she has seen (B)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you (C)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

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(A)Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

“For if you truly (B)amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly (C)execute justice one with another, if you (D)do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, (E)or shed innocent blood in this place, (F)and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, (G)then I will let you dwell in this place, (H)in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. (I)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, (J)swear falsely, (K)make offerings to Baal, (L)and go after other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, (M)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? 11 (N)Has this house, (O)which is called by my name, (P)become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord. 12 Go now to (Q)my place that was in Shiloh, (R)where I made my name dwell at first, and (S)see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. 13 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and (T)when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and (U)when I called you, you did not answer, 14 therefore I will do to (V)the house (W)that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, (X)as I did to Shiloh. 15 (Y)And I will cast you out of my sight, (Z)as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of (AA)Ephraim.

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