Acts 19:40

For now also are we standing in peril of being accused as disturbers, because we cannot make excuse for the concourse of this day, inasmuch as we have met uselessly, and have made a tumult without cause.

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

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 require other (procedure), in the place which is given by the law for an assembly it shall be resolved.

41And when these he had said, he dissolved the assembly.

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Cross References

Acts 17:5And the Jihudoyee envied, and joined to them evil men from the public place of the city, and made a great multitude, and conturbed the city. And they came and stood at the house of Jason, and demanded that they should bring them out from thence and deliver them to the multitude.

Acts 21:31And while the multitude sought to kill him, the tribune of the cohort heard that the whole city was agitated.

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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