The following is a compilation of what briefly could be called “heated incidents” in the Bible, meaning:
1. Strong reactive opposition or confusion
2. From a crowd of people
3. And happening after there is truth spoken or acted into a situation.
The list is not complete, so please add any missing stories to the comments below.
(The main purpose of this page is to support the study: “The Courage of The Bridal Mare” from Song of Songs 1:9)
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🌪 Jesus after speaking in the Synagogue (Luke 4:16-30):
Then all the people in the synagogue, on hearing these things, were filled with fury, and they rose up and drove Him out of town and took Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to hurl Him down the cliff. But He Himself passed through the midst of them and went on His way.
🌪 Jesus in Jerusalem (John 7:37-44):
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture says, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” … Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This certainly is the Prophet.” Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.
🌪 Stephen’s Story (Acts 6:8-12-55):
Now Stephen, full of grace and power, went on performing great signs and wonders among the people. But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, got to debating with Stephen, but they could not cope with his good practical sense and the spiritual power with which he usually spoke. So they instigated men to say, “We have heard him speaking abusive words against Moses and God.” By this means they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, and so they rushed upon him, seized him, and brought him before the council. ….. […then, upon listening to Stephen’s speech…] they were becoming infuriated and began to grind their teeth at him. But since he was full of the Holy Spirit, he looked right into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God’s right hand. So he said, “Look! I see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God’s right hand.” But they raised a great shout and held their ears, and all together rushed upon him, and dragged him out of the city and continued stoning him.
🌪 Paul in Ephesus – a riot incited by Demetrius (Acts 19:20-41):
Paul under the guidance of the Spirit decided to pass through Macedonia and Greece on his way to Jerusalem … Now just about that time a great commotion arose about The Way….So the whole city was thrown into confusion and with one impulse the people rushed into the theatre and dragged with them two Macedonians, Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions. … they kept on [furiously] shouting, some one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and the majority of them did not know why they had met.
🌪 Paul and Silas in Philippi (Acts 16: 16-22):
But when the owners [of a slave girl who was set free of some evil spirits] saw that the hope of their profit-making was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square, before the authorities, and brought them to the chiefs of the police court. They said, “These men are Jews; they continue to make great disturbance and confusion in our town and to advocate practices which it is against the law for us Romans to accept or observe.” The crowd also rose up and joined in the attack upon them, and the chiefs of the police court had them stripped and flogged.
🌪 Paul and Divisive Confusion among the Religious Leaders (Acts 23:6-10):
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, “I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.” And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. …And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them.
🌪 Paul and Barnabus in Antioch (Acts 13:46-50 ):
Then Paul and Barnabas courageously spoke out…[and] the heathen kept on listening and rejoicing and giving the glory to God’s message…but the Jews stirred up the devout women and men of high rank in town, and so started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
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