Acts 19:40

For we are in danger of being called to answer for this day’s tumult, since there is no cause by which we shall be able to account for this concourse.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.

In Context

39But if you have any inquiries to make about other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

41And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.

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Cross References

Acts 17:5But the unbelieving Jews, taking with them some evil men, who were loungers about the markets, and collecting a mob, set the city in an uproar; and having assaulted the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Acts 21:31And while they were seeking to kill him, report was brought to the officer of the band, that the whole of Jerusalem was in an uproar.

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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