Acts 19:40

for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we will be able to give an account of this concourse”;

Literal Standard Version

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

39And if you seek after anything concerning other matters, it will be determined in the legal assembly;

41and having said these things, he dismissed the assembly.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:41And Adonijah hears, and all those called who [are] with him, and they have finished to eat, and Joab hears the noise of the horn and says, “Why [is] the noise of the city roaring?”

Acts 17:5And the Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to themselves certain evil men of the agitators, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having also assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace,

Acts 21:31and they seeking to kill him, a rumor came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem has been thrown into confusion,

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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