Bigotry

Joshua, through envy, seeking to suppress Eldad and Medad, who were prophesying

• Numbers 11:27–29

  And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

Jews with regard to the Samaritans

• John 4:9

  Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

• John 4:27

  And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?

In rejecting the teachings of Jesus at Nazareth

• Luke 4:28

  And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

Falsely accusing Jesus of blasphemy

• John 5:18

  Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Of being a gluttonous man and a winebibber (a wino)

• Matthew 11:18

  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.

• Matthew 11:19

  The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Of keeping company with sinners

• Luke 7:39

  Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

• Luke 15:2

  And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

• Luke 19:5–7

  And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchæus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.

Of not conforming to the traditions

• Luke 11:38

  And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

• Luke 11:39

  And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

In their treatment of the young man who was born blind, whom Jesus restored to sight

• John 9:28

  Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

• John 9:29

  We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.

• John 9:34

  They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

With regard to Paul's preaching

• Acts 21:28

  Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

• Acts 21:29

  (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

• Acts 22:22

  And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

Of the Samaritans in refusing to receive Jesus

• Luke 9:52

  And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

• Luke 9:53

  And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

Of the disciples in forbidding children to be brought to Jesus

• Matthew 19:13

  Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

• Mark 10:13

  And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

• Luke 18:15

  And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Of the early Christians

In opposing the preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles

• Acts 10:45

  And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

• Acts 11:2

  And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

• Acts 11:3

  Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.

• Acts 21:20–25

  And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law: And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs. What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come. …

In regard to circumcision

• Acts 15:1–10

  And certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. …

• Acts 15:24

  Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

• Galatians 2:3–5

  But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

In zeal

• Romans 10:2

  For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

• Romans 10:3

  For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

In persecutions

• 1 Thessalonians 2:15

  Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

• 1 Thessalonians 2:16

  Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Of John in forbidding the casting out of demons by one who did not follow Jesus

• Mark 9:38–40

  And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is on our part.

• Luke 9:49

  And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.

• Luke 9:50

  And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

James and John in desiring to call down fire upon the Samaritans who would not receive Jesus

• Luke 9:51–56

  And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. …

Of Saul, in persecuting the Christians

• Acts 22:3

  I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

• Acts 22:4

  And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

• Acts 9:1–5

  And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: …

• Acts 26:9

  I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

• Galatians 1:13

  For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

• Galatians 1:14

  And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

• Philippians 3:6

  Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.