Acts 19:31

and some of the Asiarchs also, who were his friends, sent to him and urged him not to throw himself into the theatre.

Darby Translation

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

30But Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples suffered him not;

32Different persons therefore cried out some different thing; for the assembly was tumultuous, and the most did not know for what cause they had come together.

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Cross References

Proverbs 16:7When a man's ways please Jehovah, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Acts 19:10And this took place for two years, so that all that inhabited 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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