Acts 14:18

And when these they had said, they scarcely restrained the people that some one should not sacrifice to them.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 leaving not himself without witness, while he did them good from heaven, and sent down rain, and multiplied the fruits in their times, and filled with food and gladness their hearts.

19But there came thither Jihudoyee from Ikanon and from Antiokia, and stirred up against them the people; and they stoned Paulos, and dragged him out of the city, because they thought that he was dead.

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Cross References

John 6:15But when Jeshu knew that they were about to come to seize him and make him the King, he passed away to a mountain alone.

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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