And when they[a] did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world[b] have come here also, whom Jason has entertained as guests! And these people are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus!” And they threw the crowd into confusion, and the city officials who heard these things.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:6 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“find”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 17:6 Or “empire”