Acts 28:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

We know that every where it is spoken against.— Justin Martyr has assigned one of the chief reasons why the Christians laboured so universally under the popular odium: "for the Jews (says he,) not only cursed them in their synagogues, and did all they could to raise the hatred and enmity of mankind against them; but they sent out chosen men from Jerusalem, to acquaint the world, and more especially the Jews every where, that the new sect which arose from JESUS of Galilee was an atheistical and wicked sect, to be avoided and detested by all mankind. The Jews spoke first againstJesus himself, and afterwards against his apostles; but it is not easy to fix the exact time when those chosen men were sent out by them." See Dial. cum Trypho, p. 170.

Acts 28:22

22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.