Acts 14:18

And even saying these things, it was with difficulty that Moshiachʼs Shlichim restrained the multitudes from offering pagan korbanot to them. + 14:18 Am 9:11 TARGUM HASHIVIM; Jer 12:15; Isa 45:21

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

In Context

17And yet Hashem did not leave himself without an eidus (witness) in doing hatovim to you, giving geshem from Shomayim and seasons of bearing p'ri, filling you with okhel and your levavot with simcha. + 14:17 Dt 11:14; Job 5:10; Ps 65:10; 4:7; 147:20

19Then [disobedient] Yehudim came from Pisidian Antioch and Iconium and, having won over the crowds and having stoned Rav Sha'ul, they were dragging him outside the city, thinking he was dead.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:6And Hashem said, See, the Am is echad and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be impossible for them, which they have proposed to do.

Exodus 32:21And Moshe said unto Aharon, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so chata'ah gedolah upon them?

John 6:15Therefore, Yehoshua, having had da'as that they are about to come and to seize him that they might make him king by force, departed alone again to the mountain, withdrawing by himself.

Matthew Henry on Acts 14:9-19

The Lame Man Healed at Lystra; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. 8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the… Read the whole commentary →

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