Why.

2 Chronicles 25:16
While he was still speaking, the king asked, "Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?" So the prophet stopped, but he said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice."

Isaiah 29:21
those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and with empty charges deprive the righteous of justice.

Isaiah 30:9-11
These are a rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD's instruction. . . .

Amos 5:10
you hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Amos 7:10-13
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words, . . .

Micah 2:6
"Do not preach, " they preach. "Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us."

Matthew 21:23
When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came to Him. "By what authority are You doing these things?" they asked. "And who gave You this authority?"

Acts 4:17-19
But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name." . . .

Acts 5:28
"We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, " he said. "Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man's blood."

Acts 6:14
For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

and all.

Matthew 27:20
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.

Mark 15:11
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.

Acts 13:50
The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.

Acts 16:19-22
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 17:5-8
The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason's house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people. . . .

Acts 19:24-32
It began with a silversmith named Demetrius, who had brought much business to the craftsmen making silver shrines of Artemis. . . .

Acts 21:30
The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

Acts 22:22
The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, "Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!"

in the.

John 8:20, 59
He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come. . . .