When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers† before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 17:6 in context
Acts 17:3–9
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explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
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Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
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But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
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When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers† before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
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whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
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The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
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When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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- The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
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