Acts 19:40
for we are in danger of being charged with sedition for what has happened this day, there being no cause by which we can give a reason for this concourse.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
39But if ye are enquiring any thing about other matters, let it be decided in a lawful assembly:
41And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
Cross References
Acts 17:5But the unbelieving Jews being filled with envy, collected some loose profligate fellows, and making a tumult set all the city in an uproar: and assaulting Jason's house, they sought for them in order to bring them out to the populace.
Acts 21:31And as they were going to kill him, a report came to the tribune of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar:
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 →