Acts 19:36 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly. ”

• Acts 19:36 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Seeing then ... - Since no one can call in question the zeal of the Ephesians on this subject, or doubt the sincerity of their belief, and since there can be no danger that this well-established...

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• Acts 19:36 - 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 19:36 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  cannot be spoken against . are indisputable. Greek. anantirrhetos. Only here. The adverb in Acts 10:29 . ye ought to . it is needful that ye should. be . Greek. huparcho. See note on Luke...

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• Acts 19:36 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

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• Acts 19:36 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly. Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do n...

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• Acts 19:36 - 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 19:36 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against... — The language of the town-clerk has the ring of an official acceptance of the established cultus rather than of any strong personal devo...

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• Acts 19:36 - 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 19:36 - 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 19:36 - 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 19:36 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against ,.... This officer intimates, in order to quiet the mob, and make them easy, that these things were so certain, and well known, that nobody wou...

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• Acts 19:36 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly. Ver. 36. Ye ought to be quiet ] Or, sedate, composed, kept within compass, "to do nothing r...

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• Acts 19:36 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And when the town-clerk Greek, ο γραμματευς, the scribe; probably the proconsul's secretary, to whom the direction of the affairs of the city was committed; had appeased the people So far as to...

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• Acts 19:36 - 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 19:36 - 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 19:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He did there cunningly than honestly endeavour to evade their clamour, and still their rage, by telling them (how fallaciously soever), that neither Paul, nor any other Christian or Jew, had any quar...

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• Acts 19:36 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Stirring in Ephesus On Account of the Name of Artemis (19:23-41). In considering what follows we should note two things about its context: · Firstly that it introduces the final section of Acts...

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• Acts 19:36 - 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 19:36 - 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 19:36 - 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 19:36 - 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 19:36 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The end of the riot:

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• Acts 19:36 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 5:35-39 ; Proverbs 14:29 ; Proverbs 25:8

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