Acts 14:18

Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:6The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Exodus 32:21Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”

John 6:15Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain 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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