Acts 18:5-6

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5} When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message^(a) and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.^(A) ^{Tools
6} But when they resisted and blasphemed,^(B) he shook his robe^(b)^(C) and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads!^(D) I am innocent.^(c) From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”^(E)

Footnotes:

a. Acts 18:5: Other mss read was urged by the Spirit

b. Acts 18:6: A symbolic display of protest; Mt 10:14; Ac 13:51

c. Acts 18:6: Lit clean

Cross references:

A. Acts 18:5: Job 32:18; Acts 15:22; Acts 16:1; Acts 16:9; Acts 17:3; Acts 17:14-15; Acts 18:28; 1 Thessalonians 3:6

B. Acts 18:6: Acts 13:45; Romans 3:8; 1 Corinthians 4:13

C. Acts 18:6: Nehemiah 5:13; Matthew 10:14; Acts 13:51

D. Acts 18:6: Ezekiel 18:13; Ezekiel 33:4; Matthew 27:25

E. Acts 18:6: Ezekiel 3:18; Acts 13:46