Acts 19:31

Some of the Asiarchs also, who were friendly to him, sent to him, and besought him not to trust himself into the theater.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

In Context

30And when Paul wished to go in among the people, the disciples did not permit him.

32Some, therefore, were crying one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused, and the greater part knew not for what they had come together.

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Cross References

Acts 19:10This continued for two years; so that all that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

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 →

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