Acts 17:5-9

Paul and Silas in Thessalonica

⁵ _p But the Jews _q were jealous, and taking _r 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. ⁶ And when they could not find them, _s they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, ⁷ and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against _t the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is _u another king, Jesus." ⁸ And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things. ⁹ And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

1. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 2:14 - 16
   For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.
   Acts 13:50
   But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
   
2. Cross References
   Acts 5:17
   But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy
   
3. Cross References
   Judges 9:4
   And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
   Judges 11:3
   Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.
   2 Chronicles 13:7
   And certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 16:19 - 21
   But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
   
5. Cross References
   Acts 16:4
   As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.
   Luke 2:1
   In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
   
6. Cross References
   Luke 23:2
   And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.