Acts 19:30

Paul wanted to enter in among the crowd of people, but the disciples prevented him.

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In The King James Version

And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.

In Context

29The whole city was filled with confusion, and the people rushed together into the theater. They had seized Paul's travel companions, Gaius and Aristarchus, who came from Macedonia.

31Also, some of the officials of the province of Asia who were his friends sent him a message strongly requesting him not to enter the theater.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:17But Abishai son of Zeruiah rescued David, attacked the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You must not go to battle anymore with us, so that you do not put out the lamp of Israel.”

Acts 17:22So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.

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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