Biblical Concept: Jew, Jewish, Jews

Vocabulary:

Hebrew - ydIWhy> (Yehudi) = “Jewish, Jew, Judean.” From hd'y" (yadah) = literally “to throw.” In various contexts it means “to confess openly, and freely, to give thanks and praise.” “Praised” is the name given to the fourth son of Jacob* (hd'Why> (Yehudah), “also of the tribe descended from him, and ultimately applied to the kingdom and house of David, including Benjamin, in contradistinction to the other ten tribes or the kingdom of Israel.” Greek - VIoudai/oj (Ioudaios) = “Jewish, a Jew, Judea.”

*(^NASGenesis 29:35 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.) (Leah)

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Findings:

Jews: Representatives of monotheism in a polytheistic world. (That Jews have existed in the world since

Abraham is the work of God of the Bible.)

Jews: “People of the Book.” A descriptor given by Arabs regarding the Jewish people. (The spiritually

monumental task of receiving and preserving the Word of God.)

John 4:22 "You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. (Jesus to a Samaritan woman: “salvation is from the Jews”) (John 4:21-24 ²¹ Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. ²² "You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. ²⁴ "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship iBiblical n spirit and truth.") (Note 4:9b “For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans”; a salvation is from the Jews failure. Jesus did not fail: note 4:39-42.) (A person could evangelize anyone, anywhere, anytime using the phrase: ”salvation is from the Jews” Jews for Jesus do.)

Jews: Proof of the blinding nature of religion. They saw Divine miracles and rejected them because it did

not follow their religious rules. See John 5:16 below.

Jews: The Divine genetic tool for bringing in a Savior and a Warrior:

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel. (Yes, Eve was not a Jew.)

Matthew 1:1-17, The Jewish human genealogy of Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 2:14-16 ¹⁴ Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; ¹⁵ and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. ¹⁶ For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham.

1 John 3:8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

Religious Jews: One of Satan’s tools to attack the Christian Church. (Revelation 2:9, Acts 13-14, Titus

1:14) (See Biblical Concept: Comparative Religions, Secular Socialist Lunatic Jews.)

Jews: Promised a Kingdom. Fortunately, Jesus Christ will be on the throne. Israel and Jerusalem will be

evangelistic centers during the Millennial Kingdom. Millions will be born into a perfect environment. A

Jewish Messiah on a temple throne, Israel, Jerusalem, and Jews will evangelize them. Free-will will

refuse this robust evangelistic organization: note Revelation 20:7-9.

Re the Jewish Millennial Kingdom, see Zechariah 8:23 below.

Zechariah chapter 8 is a remarkable chapter concerning the Jew: what they are, and what they will be.

What they are: “a curse among the nations” What they will be: “a blessing for nations in Jerusalem.”

(Compare Jeremiah 29:18 'And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror

to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and a horror, and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have

driven them,)

See Biblical Concept: Jews: God’s Evangelical Tool.

^NASActs 10:28 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to

associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man

unholy or unclean. (Window into Jewish religion.)

“Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome.”

“Jew named Apollos” … “he was mighty in the Scriptures”

^NASGalatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither

male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Inclusive salvation in Christ Jesus.)

“Jewish custom of purification”

“Jewish day of preparation”

Peter rescue: “from all that the Jewish people were expecting”

“a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus”

“Jewish exorcists”

“Jewish myths and commandments of men”

“Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab”

Jesus, King of the Jews.

Cross: “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

¹⁶ And for this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the

Sabbath.

Jews: Sabbath over miracles.

“Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him”

Re Jesus: “Jews were seeking to kill Him”

¹³ Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of the Jews. (Jewish cancel culture.)

“Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him”

⁴⁵ Many therefore of the Jews, who had come to Mary and beheld what He had done, believed in Him.

“Jesus therefore no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews”

¹¹ because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.

“officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus”

⁷ The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself

out to be the Son of God." (Law over miracles.)

Cross: “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Jewish speech control.

“a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, for fear of the Jews”

Jews, religious fear, relationship.

“the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews”

Jewish cancel culture.

Devout Jews.

Jerusalem Christian Jew Hebrew sectarians.

Jewish evangelism: “proving that this Jesus is the Christ”

Jews: Murder for their religion.

Hellenistic Jews murder for their religion.

“Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy”

Jews: “persecution against Paul and Barnabas”

“a great multitude believed, both of Jews and of Greeks”

“Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles”

Acts 14:19-20 ¹⁹ But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him

out of the city, supposing him to be dead. ²⁰ But while the disciples stood around him, he arose and entered the city. And the next

day he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

Jews, stoned, Paul, dead, arose, evangelism.

“Jews, becoming jealous”

Thessalonica: Jews, jealous, hire hit men, mob, uproar.

Paul: “solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ”

Jews with one accord rose up against Paul

²⁸ for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

“the plots of the Jews”

“how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed”

“the Jews formed a conspiracy” … “until they had killed Paul”

Re Paul: “this man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be slain by them”

Jewish murders.

Paul: “Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death”

“Jews ask for signs”

²³ but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness,

“who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan”

Satan loves to perform evil with the unique Jewish people.

“those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews”

“Jewish custom of purification”

“Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus”

“Jewish myths and commandments of men”

“Jews who had escaped and had survived the captivity”

^NASNehemiah 13:23 In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. (Cp. Ezra 9:1-4, “the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands”) (1 Peter 2:9-10 ⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; ¹⁰ for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.) (The Age of Grace is the age of a new race.) (When the new race is taken to heaven, the Jewish race will come to the fore in the Tribulation and Millennium.)

⁵ Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did what they pleased to those who hated

them.

²² because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into

gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of

food to one another and gifts to the poor.

²⁷ the Jews established and made a custom for themselves, and for their descendants, and for all those who allied themselves with

them, so that they should not fail to celebrate these two days according to their regulation, and according to their appointed time

annually.

²⁸ So these days were to be remembered and celebrated throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city;

and these days of Purim were not to fail from among the Jews, or their memory fade from their descendants.

^NASMatthew 2:2 "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east, and

have come to worship Him."

Cross: “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

¹⁸ The Jews therefore answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, seeing that You do

these things?" (Never enough signs evidently.)

For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

²² "You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. (Jesus to a Samaritan woman: “salvation is from the Jews”) (John 4:21-24 ²¹ Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. ²² "You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. ²⁴ "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.") (4:9b “For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.” A Salvation is from the Jews error. Jesus fixed that: note 4:39-42.) (A person could evangelize anyone, anywhere, anytime using the phrase: ”salvation is from the Jews.” Jews for Jesus do.)

¹⁶ And for this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the

Sabbath.

“Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him” … “calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with

God”

“Jews therefore were grumbling about Him”

Walking, Galilee versus Judea, “Jews were seeking to kill Him”

¹³ Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of the Jews. (Jews practice cancel culture.)

“Jews who had believed” versus “If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine”

Jews versus Samaritan: Racial insults.

Jews practice religious cancel culture opposing Christ.

Re Paul: “Hellenistic Jews; but they were attempting to put him to death.”

Re Jesus: Jews, jealous, wicked men, mob, uproar.

Paul: “solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.”

“Jews with one accord rose up against Paul”

²⁸ for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

Re Paul: “a plot was formed against him by the Jews”

Re Paul: “the plots of the Jews”

“Jews formed a conspiracy” … “until they had killed Paul”

Re Paul: “this man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be slain by them”

^NASActs 24:5 "For we have found this man a real pest and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the

Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Re Paul: Jews’ perjury.

²¹ "For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death. (Temple murderers)

²³ but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness,

¹⁵ "We are Jews by nature, and not sinners from among the Gentiles; (^NASGalatians 2:16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified.) (Window into the Jews world.)

“those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan”

“of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews”

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Jew

^NASEsther 2:5 Now there was a Jew in Susa the capital whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

^NASEsther 3:4 Now it was when they had spoken daily to him and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

^NASEsther 5:13 "Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

^NASEsther 6:10 Then the king said to Haman, "Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king's gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have said."

^NASEsther 8:7 So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the gallows because he had stretched out his hands against the Jews.

^NASEsther 9:29 Then Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim.

³¹ to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and just as they had established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions for their times of fasting and their lamentations.

^NASEsther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus and great among the Jews, and in favor with the multitude of his kinsmen, one who sought the good of his people and one who spoke for the welfare of his whole nation.

^NASJeremiah 34:9 that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.

^NASZechariah 8:23 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'In those days ten men from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."'" (Zechariah chapter 8 is a remarkable chapter concerning the Jew: what they are, and what they will be. What they are: “a curse among the nations” What they will be: “a blessing for nations in Jerusalem.”) (Compare Jeremiah 29:18 'And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and a horror, and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,)

(Note these features in chapter 8: Zechariah 8:3 "Thus says the LORD, 'I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.' Zechariah 8:8 and I will bring them back, and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem, and they will be My people and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.' Zechariah 8:11-15 ¹¹ 'But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,' declares the LORD of hosts. ¹² 'For there will be peace for the seed: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. ¹³ 'And it will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.' ¹⁴ "For thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Just as I purposed to do harm to you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath,' says the LORD of hosts, 'and I have not relented, ¹⁵ so I have again purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear!)

^NASJohn 3:25 There arose therefore a discussion on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purification.

^NASJohn 4:9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

^NASJohn 18:35 Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You up to me; what have You done?"

^NASActs 10:28 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean. (All) (Window into Jewish world.)

^NASActs 18:2 And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them, (“Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome.”)

²⁴ Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures. (“Jew named Apollos” … “he was mighty in the Scriptures”)

^NASActs 19:34 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single outcry arose from them all as they shouted for about two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

^NASActs 21:39 But Paul said, "I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people."

^NASActs 22:3 "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, just as you all are today.

^NASRomans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

^NASRomans 2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,

¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

¹⁷ But if you bear the name "Jew," and rely upon the Law, and boast in God,

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.

^NASRomans 3:1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

^NASRomans 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call upon Him;

^NAS1 Corinthians 9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law, though not being myself under the Law, that I might win those who are under the Law;

^NASGalatians 2:14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

^NASGalatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (All) (Inclusive salvation in Christ Jesus.)

^NASColossians 3:11 -- a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all. (Inclusive salvation in Christ Jesus.)

Jewish

^NAS1 Chronicles 4:18 And his Jewish wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

^NASNehemiah 5:1 Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

⁸ And I said to them, "We according to our ability have redeemed our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; now would you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us?" Then they were silent and could not find a word to say.

^NASEsther 6:13 And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him."

^NASJeremiah 52:30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

^NASLuke 7:3 And when he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.

^NASJohn 2:6 Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. (“Jewish custom of purification”)

^NASJohn 19:42 Therefore on account of the Jewish day of preparation, because the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there. (“Jewish day of preparation”)

^NASActs 10:2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people, and prayed to God continually.

^NASActs 12:11 And when Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting." (Peter rescue: “from all that the Jewish people were expecting”)

^NASActs 13:6 And when they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus, (“a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus”)

^NASActs 16:1 And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek,

^NASActs 19:13 But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." (“Jewish exorcists”)

¹⁴ And seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

^NASActs 26:17 delivering you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

²³ that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He should be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

^NASTitus 1:14 not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. (“Jewish myths and commandments of men”)

Jews

^NAS2 Kings 25:25 But it came about in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck Gedaliah down so that he died along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

^NASEzra 4:12 let it be known to the king, that the Jews who came up from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are rebuilding the rebellious and evil city, and are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.

²³ Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes' document was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by force of arms.

^NASEzra 5:1 When the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them,

⁵ But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report should come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.

^NASEzra 6:7 "Leave this work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.

¹⁴ And the elders of the Jews were successful in building through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

^NASNehemiah 1:2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, and some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped and had survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem.

^NASNehemiah 2:16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; nor had I as yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the rest who did the work.

^NASNehemiah 4:1 Now it came about that when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry and mocked the Jews.

² And he spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy men of Samaria and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble even the burned ones?"

¹² And it came about when the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times, "They will come up against us from every place where you may turn,"

^NASNehemiah 5:17 Moreover, there were at my table one hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.

^NASNehemiah 6:6 In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel; therefore you are rebuilding the wall. And you are to be their king, according to these reports.

^NASNehemiah 13:23 In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. (“Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab”)

^NASEsther 3:6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

¹⁰ Then the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

¹³ And letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.

^NASEsther 4:3 And in each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.

⁷ And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

¹³ Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not imagine that you in the king's palace can escape any more than all the Jews.

¹⁴ "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?"

¹⁶ "Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish."

^NASEsther 8:1 On that day King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Queen Esther; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had disclosed what he was to her.

³ Then Esther spoke again to the king, fell at his feet, wept, and implored him to avert the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite and his plot which he had devised against the Jews.

⁵ Then she said, "If it pleases the king and if I have found favor before him and the matter seems proper to the king and I am pleasing in his sight, let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.

⁷ So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the gallows because he had stretched out his hands against the Jews.

⁸ "Now you write to the Jews as you see fit, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for a decree which is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring may not be revoked."

⁹ So the king's scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their language, as well as to the Jews according to their script and their language.

¹¹ In them the king granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right to assemble and to defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate the entire army of any people or province which might attack them, including children and women, and to plunder their spoil,

¹³ A copy of the edict to be issued as law in each and every province, was published to all the peoples, so that the Jews should be ready for this day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

¹⁶ For the Jews there was light and gladness and joy and honor.

¹⁷ And in each and every province, and in each and every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree arrived, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of the Jews had fallen on them.

^NASEsther 9:1 Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day when the king's command and edict were about to be executed, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it was turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them.

² The Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm; and no one could stand before them, for the dread of them had fallen on all the peoples.

³ Even all the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who were doing the king's business assisted the Jews, because the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them.

⁵ Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.

⁶ And in Susa the capital the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

¹² And the king said to Queen Esther, "The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in Susa the capital. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall even be granted you. And what is your further request? It shall also be done."

¹³ Then said Esther, "If it pleases the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows."

¹⁵ And the Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

¹⁶ Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces assembled, to defend their lives and rid themselves of their enemies, and kill 75,000 of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

¹⁸ But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth day and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

¹⁹ Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a holiday for rejoicing and feasting and sending portions of food to one another.

²⁰ Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

²² because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

²³ Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

²⁴ For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them.

²⁵ But when it came to the king's attention, he commanded by letter that his wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

²⁷ the Jews established and made a custom for themselves, and for their descendants, and for all those who allied themselves with them, so that they should not fail to celebrate these two days according to their regulation, and according to their appointed time annually.

²⁸ So these days were to be remembered and celebrated throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and these days of Purim were not to fail from among the Jews, or their memory fade from their descendants.

³⁰ And he sent letters to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, namely, words of peace and truth,

^NASJeremiah 32:12 and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

^NASJeremiah 38:19 Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "I dread the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldeans, lest they give me over into their hand and they abuse me."

^NASJeremiah 40:11 Likewise also all the Jews who were in Moab and among the sons of Ammon and in Edom, and who were in all the other countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant for Judah and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.

¹² Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

¹⁵ Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, "Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know! Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered and the remnant of Judah perish?"

^NASJeremiah 41:3 Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, that is with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.

^NASJeremiah 43:9 "Take some large stones in your hands and hide them in the mortar in the brick terrace which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of some of the Jews;

^NASJeremiah 44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt, those who were living in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and the land of Pathros, saying,

^NASJeremiah 52:28 These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;

^NASDaniel 3:8 For this reason at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and brought charges against the Jews.

¹² "There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up."

^NASMatthew 2:2 "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east, and have come to worship Him."

^NASMatthew 27:11 Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned Him, saying, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And Jesus said to him, "It is as you say." (Jesus, King of the Jews.)

²⁹ And after weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they kneeled down before Him and mocked Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

³⁷ And they put up above His head the charge against Him which read, "THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS." (Cross: “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”)

^NASMatthew 28:15 And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, and is to this day.

^NASMark 7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders; (Jews: “”observing the traditions of the elders

^NASMark 15:2 And Pilate questioned Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And answering He said to him, "It is as you say."

⁹ And Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"

¹² And answering again, Pilate was saying to them, "Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

¹⁸ and they began to acclaim Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

²⁶ And the inscription of the charge against Him read, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."

^NASLuke 23:3 And Pilate asked Him, saying, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And He answered him and said, "It is as you say."

³⁷ and saying, "If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!"

³⁸ Now there was also an inscription above Him, "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."

⁵¹ (he had not consented to their plan and action), a man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God;

^NASJohn 1:19 And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

^NASJohn 2:13 And the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁸ The Jews therefore answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, seeing that You do these things?"

²⁰ The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"

^NASJohn 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

^NASJohn 4:9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

²² "You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. (“salvation is from the Jews”)

^NASJohn 5:1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Therefore the Jews were saying to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet."

¹⁵ The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

¹⁶ And for this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. (All) (Jews: Sabbath over miracles.)

¹⁸ For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. (“Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him”)

^NASJohn 6:4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

⁴¹ The Jews therefore were grumbling about Him, because He said, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."

⁵² The Jews therefore began to argue with one another, saying, "How can this man give us His flesh to eat?"

^NASJohn 7:1 And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee; for He was unwilling to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him. (Re Jesus: “Jews were seeking to kill Him”)

² Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

¹¹ The Jews therefore were seeking Him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is He?"

¹³ Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of the Jews. (All) (Jewish cancel culture.)

¹⁵ The Jews therefore were marveling, saying, "How has this man become learned, having never been educated?"

³⁵ The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we shall not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

^NASJohn 8:22 Therefore the Jews were saying, "Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come '?"

³¹ Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; (“Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him”)

⁴⁸ The Jews answered and said to Him, "Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

⁵² The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word, he shall never taste of death.'

⁵⁷ The Jews therefore said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"

^NASJohn 9:18 The Jews therefore did not believe it of him, that he had been blind, and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight,

²² His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed, that if anyone should confess Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. (Jewish cancel culture.)

^NASJohn 10:19 There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words.

²⁴ The Jews therefore gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, "How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."

³¹ The Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

³³ The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."

^NASJohn 11:8 The disciples said to Him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?"

¹⁹ and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

³¹ The Jews then who were with her in the house, and consoling her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

³³ When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her, also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled,

³⁶ And so the Jews were saying, "Behold how He loved him!"

⁴⁵ Many therefore of the Jews, who had come to Mary and beheld what He had done, believed in Him. (All)

⁵⁴ Jesus therefore no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples. (“Jesus therefore no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews”)

⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, to purify themselves.

^NASJohn 12:9 The great multitude therefore of the Jews learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.

¹¹ because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus. (All)

^NASJohn 13:33 "Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You shall seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, I now say to you also, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'

^NASJohn 18:12 So the Roman cohort and the commander, and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him, (“officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus”)

¹⁴ Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was expedient for one man to die on behalf of the people.

²⁰ Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and I spoke nothing in secret.

³¹ Pilate therefore said to them, "Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law." The Jews said to him, "We are not permitted to put anyone to death,"

³³ Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus, and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

³⁶ Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm."

³⁸ Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no guilt in Him.

³⁹ "But you have a custom, that I should release someone for you at the Passover; do you wish then that I release for you the King of the Jews?"

^NASJohn 19:3 and they began to come up to Him, and say, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him blows in the face.

⁷ The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God." (All)

¹² As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar."

¹⁴ Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote an inscription also, and put it on the cross. And it was written, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS." ("JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.")

²⁰ Therefore this inscription many of the Jews read, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and in Greek.

²¹ And so the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews'; but that He said, 'I am King of the Jews.'" (Jewish speech control.)

³¹ The Jews therefore, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

³⁸ And after these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. He came therefore, and took away His body. (“a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, for fear of the Jews”) (Jews, religious fear, relationship.)

⁴⁰ And so they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

^NASJohn 20:19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you." (“the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews”) (Jews, religious fear, relationship.) (Jewish cancel culture.)

^NASActs 2:5 Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men, from every nation under heaven. (Devout Jews.)

¹⁰ Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

^NASActs 6:1 Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food. (Jerusalem Christian Jew Hebrew sectarians.)

^NASActs 9:22 But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ. (Jewish evangelism: “proving that this Jesus is the Christ”)

²³ And when many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him, (Jews: Murder for their religion.)

²⁹ And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were attempting to put him to death. (Hellenistic Jews murder for their religion.)

^NASActs 10:22 And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation of the Jews, was divinely directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear a message from you."

³⁹ "And we are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And they also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross.

^NASActs 11:19 So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.

^NASActs 12:3 And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. Now it was during the days of Unleavened Bread.

^NASActs 13:5 And when they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper.

⁴³ Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and of the God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were urging them to continue in the grace of God.

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming. (“Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy”)

⁵⁰ But the Jews aroused the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district. (Jews: “persecution against Paul and Barnabas”)

^NASActs 14:1 And it came about that in Iconium they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, and spoke in such a manner that a great multitude believed, both of Jews and of Greeks. (“a great multitude believed, both of Jews and of Greeks”)

² But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles, and embittered them against the brethren. (“Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles”)

⁴ But the multitude of the city was divided; and some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

⁵ And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,

¹⁹ But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. (All) (Acts 14:20 But while the disciples stood around him, he arose and entered the city. And the next day he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.) (Jews, stoned, Paul, dead, arose, evangelism.)

^NASActs 16:3 Paul wanted this man to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

²⁰ and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,

^NASActs 17:1 Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

⁵ But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and coming upon the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people. (“Jews, becoming jealous”) (Thessalonica: Jews, jealous, hire hit men, mob, uproar.)

¹⁰ And the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea; and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there likewise, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

¹⁷ So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.

⁴ And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

⁵ But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. (Paul: “solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ”)

¹² But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat, (“Jews with one accord rose up against Paul”)

¹⁴ But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;

¹⁹ And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there. Now he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

²⁸ for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. (All)

^NASActs 19:10 And this took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

¹⁷ And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified.

³³ And some of the crowd concluded it was Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward; and having motioned with his hand, Alexander was intending to make a defense to the assembly.

^NASActs 20:3 And there he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews; (“the plots of the Jews”)

²¹ solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

^NASActs 21:11 And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

²⁰ And when they heard it they began glorifying God; and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law; (“how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed”)

²¹ and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

²⁷ And when the seven days were almost over, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

^NASActs 22:12 "And a certain Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, and well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

³⁰ But on the next day, wishing to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Council to assemble, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

^NASActs 23:12 And when it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. (“the Jews formed a conspiracy” … “until they had killed Paul”)

²⁰ And he said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow to the Council, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more thoroughly about him.

²⁷ "When this man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be slain by them, I came upon them with the troops and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman. (Re Paul: “this man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be slain by them”) (Jewish murders.)

^NASActs 24:5 "For we have found this man a real pest and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

⁹ And the Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

¹⁸ in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar. But there were certain Jews from Asia--

²⁷ But after two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul imprisoned.

^NASActs 25:2 And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul; and they were urging him,

⁷ And after he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove; (Jews re Paul: “bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove”) (Jew perjurers.)

⁸ while Paul said in his own defense, "I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar."

⁹ But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me on these charges?"

¹⁰ But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.

¹⁵ and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation upon him.

²⁴ And Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all you gentlemen here present with us, you behold this man about whom all the people of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly declaring that he ought not to live any longer.

^NASActs 26:2 "In regard to all the things of which I am accused by the Jews, I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that I am about to make my defense before you today;

³ especially because you are an expert in all customs and questions among the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

⁴ "So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

⁷ the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly serve God night and day. And for this hope, O King, I am being accused by Jews.

²¹ "For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death. (Paul: “Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death”)

^NASActs 28:17 And it happened that after three days he called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they had come together, he began saying to them, "Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people, or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

¹⁹ "But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar; not that I had any accusation against my nation.

²⁹ And when he had spoken these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.

^NASRomans 3:9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

^NASRomans 9:24 even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.

^NAS1 Corinthians 1:22 For indeed Jews ask for signs, and Greeks search for wisdom; (“Jews ask for signs”)

²³ but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness, (All)

²⁴ but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

^NAS1 Corinthians 10:32 Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;

^NAS1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

^NAS2 Corinthians 11:24 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.

^NASGalatians 2:13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

¹⁵ "We are Jews by nature, and not sinners from among the Gentiles; (Window into Jewish world.) (“¹⁶ nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified.”)

^NAS1 Thessalonians 2:14 For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,

^NASRevelation 2:9 'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. (“who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan”) (Satan loves to perform evil with the unique Jewish people.)

^NASRevelation 3:9 'Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie-- behold, I will make them to come and bow down at your feet, and to know that I have loved you. (“those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews”)

Jewish

^NAS1 Chronicles 4:18 And his Jewish wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

^NASNehemiah 5:1 Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

^NASJeremiah 52:30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

^NASLuke 7:3 And when he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.

^NASJohn 2:6 Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. (“Jewish custom of purification”)

^NASJohn 19:42 Therefore on account of the Jewish day of preparation, because the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

^NASActs 10:2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people, and prayed to God continually.

^NASActs 13:6 And when they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus, (“Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus”)

^NASActs 16:1 And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek,

¹⁴ And seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

^NASActs 26:17 delivering you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

²³ that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He should be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

^NASTitus 1:14 not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. (“Jewish myths and commandments of men”)

Jews

^NASEzra 5:1 When the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them,

⁵ But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report should come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.

^NASEzra 6:7 "Leave this work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.

^NASNehemiah 1:2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, and some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped and had survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem. (“Jews who had escaped and had survived the captivity”)