Acts 19:37

For ye have brought forward these men, when they have robbed no temples, and have not reviled our goddess.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.

In Context

36Since therefore no one can gainsay this, ye ought to be tranquil, and to do nothing with precipitancy.

38But if Demetrius and the men of his trade have a controversy with any one, lo, there is a proconsul in the city, they are men of dexterity, let them approach and litigate with one another.

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Cross References

Acts 25:8Meanwhile Paul maintained, that he had committed no offence, either against the Jewish law, or against the temple, or against Caesar.

1 Corinthians 10:32Be ye without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God:

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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