Acts 19:37

For ye have brought these men, neither as temple-robbers, nor as defaming our goddess.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

36As these things, then, cannot be denied, it is needful that ye be calmed at once, and, nothing rash, be doing.

38If then, Demetrius, and the craftsmen with him, have against anyone an accusation, courts, are being held, and there are, proconsuls: let them accuse one another!

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Cross References

Acts 25:8Paul saying in defence—Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I in anything sinned.

1 Corinthians 10:32Give no occasion of stumbling—whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly 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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