Acts 19:30

When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples did not allow 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 city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

31Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you do not quench the lamp of Israel."

Acts 17:22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

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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