Pharisee and teacher of the law · First century AD

Gamaliel in the Bible

With the council ready to kill the apostles, Gamaliel advises restraint: if this work is of men it will collapse, and if it is of God they cannot overthrow it. Paul later names him as the teacher he was trained under.

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Verses mentioning Gamaliel

7 occurrences across 7 verses in the King James Version.

  1. Numbers 1:10

    Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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  2. Numbers 2:20

    And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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  3. Numbers 7:54

    On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:

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  4. Numbers 7:59

    And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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  5. Numbers 10:23

    And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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  6. Acts 5:34

    Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

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  7. 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.

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