Acts 19:40
For we are also in danger to be accused about the uproar today, there being no cause about which we can give account of this commotion.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
39And if ye seek anything about other things, it will be decided in the assembly within law.
41And having said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
Cross References
1 Kings 1:41And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
Acts 17:5But the disobedient Jews having taken along certain evil men of the marketplaces, and having gathered a mob, were rioting the city. And having stood by the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the populace.
Acts 21:31And while seeking to kill him, a report went up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem has been stirred up.
Matthew Henry on Acts 19:22-41
The Tumult at Ephesus. 21 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 into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. 23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain… Read the whole commentary →