Quotes about Authority
As they went from town to town, they delivered the decisions handed down by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
- Acts 16:4
When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.
- Acts 16:19
They brought them to the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews and are throwing our city into turmoil
- Acts 16:20
When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”
- Acts 16:35
The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”
- Acts 16:36
But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”
- Acts 16:37
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
- Acts 17:30
“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.
- Acts 18:13
But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”
- Acts 18:15
And he drove them away from the judgment seat.
- Acts 18:16
At this, the crowd seized Sosthenes the synagogue leader and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But none of this was of concern to Gallio.
- Acts 18:17
Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
- Acts 19:14