Acts 19:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. ”

• Acts 19:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Would have entered in unto the people - Probably to have addressed them, and to defend his own cause.

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• Acts 19:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Tumult at Ephesus. A change of religion (for the Way, cf. Acts 9:2 ) bears hardly on certain trades. In ch. 16 the Gospel interfered with the trade of soothsaying; here the art of the silversmit...

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• Acts 19:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  would . was wishing. Greek. boulomai. App-102. people . Greek. demos. See Acts 12:22 .

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• Acts 19:30 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 30. And when Paul would. We may see that Paul’s constancy was coupled with modesty. When as he might well have kept himself out of sight, of his own accord was he prepared to put himself i...

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• Acts 19:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.

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• Acts 19:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. And when, Paul would have entered (or 'wished to enter') in unto the people - the deemos ( G1218 ), t...

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• Acts 19:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Ephesus 1-41. Paul at Ephesus. Opposition of the manufacturers of idols. St. Paul, leaving Antioch in S. Galatia (see Acts 18:23 ), approached Ephesus not by the usual level route leading through...

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• Acts 19:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  When Paul would have entered in... — We almost see the impetuous zeal which urged the Apostle not to leave his companions to bear the brunt of the attack alone, and the anxious fear which made his...

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• Acts 19:30 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Lawlessness of Selfish Greed Acts 19:30-41 The theater of Ephesus still stands, and the writer of these words has spoken in its mighty enclosure, from the very spot where this town clerk-th...

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• Acts 19:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The result of the work of Apollos was manifest when Paul reached Ephesus. There he found a company of sincere disciples to Jesus as He had been revealed by John. To them Paul declared the truth in it...

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• Acts 19:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. (22) So he sent...

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• Acts 19:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And when Paul would have entered in unto the people ,.... In the theatre, in order to have preached to the people, and to have removed their prejudices against him, and the Gospel preached by him, a...

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• Acts 19:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. Ver. 30. The disciples suffered him not ] i.e. They persuaded him otherwise, and prevailed. It is best, if a...

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• Acts 19:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When Paul would have entered in to the people Being above all fear, to plead the cause of his companions, and prove they were not gods which were made with hands; the disciples suffered him not B...

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• Acts 19:30 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Paul returned to Ephesus, as he had promised. Of course there was an assembly there already, as chapter 18:27 intimates; but he found certain disciples who, at his questioning, tell him they had not...

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• Acts 19:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Tumult at Ephesus.       21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Acha...

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• Acts 19:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Paul would have entered in unto the people; being desirous either to appease the tumult; or, if the worst came of it, to die for Christ's sake. The disciples suffered him not, by their entreaties...

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• Acts 19:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  PAUL'S JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM AND THEN TO ROME (19:21-28:31). Here we begin a new section of Acts. It commences with Paul's purposing to go to Jerusalem, followed by an incident, which, while it bri...

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• Acts 19:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 19:23 . The way .—See on Acts 9:2 . Acts 19:24 . Demetrius .—The name has been found in an inscription, exhumed in Ephesus and supposed (Hicks) to belong to A.D. 50–60,...

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• Acts 19:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 19:1 . Paul came to Ephesus, a city of Ionia, built by the Amezones. Its temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the world; but Pompey plundered it of all its riches. This city is now...

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• Acts 19:30 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A certain man named Demetrius. Paul and Demetrius The application of these words to present day life is a task that might be assigned to a child. Demetrius never dies; his word is to be heard i...

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• Acts 19:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 19:1 Country for coasts, A.V.; found for finding, A.V. and T.R. The upper country (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through whi...

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• Acts 19:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The effect of the speech:

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• Acts 19:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 18:2 ; 2 Samuel 18:3 ; 2 Samuel 21:17 ; Acts 14:14-18 ; Acts 17:22-31 ; Acts 21:39

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• Acts 19:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  When Paul would have gone in to the people — Being above all fear, to plead the cause of his companions, and prove they are not gods which are made with hands.

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