Some therefore cried one thing ... - This is an admirable description of a mob, assembled for what purpose they knew not; but agitated by passions, and strifes, and tumults.
And the more part knew not ... - The greater part did not know. They had been drawn together by the noise and excitement, and but a small part would know the real cause of the commotion. This is usually the case in tumultuous meetings.
Verse 32. _SOME - CRIED ONE THING, AND SOME ANOTHER_] This is an admirable description of a tumultuous mob, gathered together without law or reason; getting their passions inflamed, and looking for an...
CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The second visit of Paul to Ephesus. The twelve disciples of John (Acts 19:1)._ 2. The Apostle's continued labors. The separation of the disciples. The Province Asia evangelized (Act...
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 silversmith suf...
IN EPHESUS (Acts 19:1-7) Acts 19:1-41 is mainly concerned with Paul's work in Ephesus. He stayed longer there than anywhere else, almost three years. (i) Ephesus (G2181) was the market of Asia Minor....
It happened that at this time there was a great disturbance about The Way. A certain man called Demetrius, who was a silversmith and who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought very considerable profi...
ASSEMBLY. Greek. _ekklesica_ App-186. CONFUSED. confounded. Greek. _sunchuno._ See note on Acts 2:6. KNEW. Greek. _oida._ App-132. WHEREFORE. on account of what....
_Some therefore_, &c. As the craftsmen had not secured St Paul there was no central object to which attention could at once be called, and one general cry raised. _for the assembly was confused_ The...
ἌΛΛΟΙ ΜῈΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ἌΛΛΟ ΤΙ ἜΚΡΑΖΟΝ, _some therefore cried one thing and some another_. As the craftsmen had not secured Paul, against whom Demetrius had directed their rage, there was no central object t...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
_DEMETRIUS CAUSED A RIOT IN EPHESUS ACTS 19:21-34:_ Paul planned to go to Macedonia, Achaia, Jerusalem, and then to also see Rome. Christianity (That Way) is always in conflict with the evils of the w...
ΉΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ, _см._ Acts 19:31, используется с perf. _part._ в перифр. обороте. ΈΚΚΛΗΣΊΑ (G1577) собрание, группа людей; здесь: толпа (RWP). ΣΥΓΚΕΧΥΜΈΝΗ _perf._ раss. _part. от_ ΣΥΓΧΈ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Special Study PAUL'S POWER TO GIVE CHARISMATIC POWER (Acts 19:1-41) A. There is much ambiguous, scripturally-imprecise and confusing exegesis of Acts 19:1-7 being done today. 1....
32-34. Leaving the apostle, for a time, in the cloud of sorrow which we will find still enveloping him when we meet him again, we turn to witness the proceedings within the theater. (32) "_Now some we...
Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together. SOME THEREFORE CRIED ONE THING, AND SOME ANOTHER: FOR...
18 Many believers still clung to their old practices, but when they found that the Lord was greater than the demons whom they feared, they abandoned their false arts. They gave up the scrolls which ta...
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 Colos...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 PAUL IN EPHESUS, 19:1-10 V1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was travelling. He travelled through the *province on the higher road. He arr...
SOME THEREFORE CRIED ONE THING, AND SOME ANOTHER. — Better, _kept on crying._ The graphic character of the whole narrative makes it almost certain that it must have come from an eye-witness, or possib...
ἄλλοι μὲν οὖν : μὲν οὖν probably as often in Acts without any opposition expressed, but see Rendall, _App._, p. 162; the antithesis may be in δέ of Acts 19:33. ἔκραζον : “kept on crying,” imperfect. ἐ...
THE LAWLESSNESS OF SELFISH GREED Acts 19:30 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-the model o...
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 its...
The Riot in Ephesus While Timothy and Erastus were away, a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made shrines of Diana, or Artemis, began to stir people up against Christianity. He called together th...
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...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
From Verse 24 of Chapter 18 to Verse 7 of Chapter 19 we have a kind of summary of the progress made by the doctrine of Christ, and of the power that accompanied it. Apollos knew only of the teaching o...
SOME THEREFORE CRIED ONE THING, AND SOME ANOTHER,.... Not in the church at Ephesus among the disciples, and friends of the apostle, as if they were divided in their sentiments about his going into the...
Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together. Ver. 32. _Knew not wherefore, &c._] No more do the most...
_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_ Be...
The effect of the speech:...
SOME THEREFORE CRIED ONE THING, AND SOME ANOTHER; FOR THE ASSEMBLY WAS CONFUSED, AND THE MORE PART KNEW NOT WHEREFORE THEY WERE COME TOGETHER....
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 e...
SOME THEREFORE CRIED ONE THING AND SOME ANOTHER, FOR THE ASSEMBLY WAS CONFUSED, AND MOST OF THEM DID NOT KNOW WHY THEY HAD COME TOGETHER. 1. There is mass hysteria. Here is an angry mob. They are rea...
32-41 The Jews came forward in this tumult. Those who are thus careful to distinguish themselves from the servants of Christ now, and are afraid of being taken for them, shall have their doom accordi...
OLBGrk; An excellent description of a popular tumult. Whether this ASSEMBLY was afterwards made legal by the magistrates resorting thither, (though it was not called by their authority), and is there...
32-34. Leaving the apostle, for a time, in the cloud of sorrow which we will find still enveloping him when we meet him again, we turn to witness the proceedings within the theater. (32) "_ Now some w...
Acts 19:32 Some G243 therefore G3767 G3303 cried G2896 (G5707) thing G5100 another G243 for G1063 assembly...
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 (Ac...
‘Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and the majority did not know why they were come together.' But while the silversmiths and their employees knew ex...
Acts 19:32. SOME CRIED ONE THING AND SOME ANOTHER. Evidently this is a ‘memory' of some one who was present. A vast concourse of people had been gathered together, all moved by some vague sense of inj...
SOME THEREFORE CRIED ONE THING AND SOME ANOTHER (αλλο μεν ουν αλλο τ εκραζον). This classical use of αλλος αλλο (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 747) appears also in Acts 2:12; Acts 21:34. Literally, "othe...
Acts 19:32 The Voices of Great Crowds. A crowd is more than a gathering of individual minds, feelings, hopes. It is itself an individual, possessed for the time by a spirit of its own. It may be powe...
CONTENTS: Paul at Ephesus. Disciples of John the Baptist become Christians. Paul in the synagogue and in the school of Tyrannus. Paul's miracles. Uproar of the silversmiths. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
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 in...
THAT THERE WAS SERIOUS TROUBLE. Things had been peaceful up to now. Notice trouble starts from a Gentile source. MADE SILVER MODELS OF THE TEMPLE. The temple of Artemis [Diana] was one of the wonders...
_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 in ev...
_Some therefore cried one thing, and some another._ THE EXCITEMENT AT EPHESUS I. What produced it. 1. Self-interest endangered. 2. Superstitious feelings aroused. 3. The unpopularity of the gospe...
_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, recording a...
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 which St. Paul...
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth [watering what Paul had planted], Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus; and there he found certain disciples [that no dou...
Acts 19:29; Acts 19:40; Acts 21:34; Luke 7:24; Matthew 11:7...
The greater part did not know for what they were come together — Which is commonly the case in such an assembly....