Quotes about Controversy
But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”
- Acts 2:13
For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
- Acts 6:14
He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.
- Acts 9:29
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him
- Acts 11:2
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
- Acts 15:1
But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”
- Acts 15:5
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
- Acts 17:32
“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.
- Acts 18:13
We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
- Acts 24:5
Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.
- Acts 24:12
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
- Galatians 5:12
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Tom Lehrer