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Selected Verse: Acts 19:23 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 19:23 |
King James |
And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
the same time--of Paul's proposed departure.
about that--"the"
way--So the new religion seemed then to be designated (Act 9:2; Act 22:4; Act 24:14). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| No small stir - No little excitement, disturbance, or tumult τάραχος tarachos. Compare Act 17:4-5. "About that way." Respecting the doctrines of Christianity which Paul preached. See the notes on Act 9:2; Act 18:26; Act 19:9. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
about the way
Concerning the Way, that is, Christ. (Joh 14:6). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
The way
See on Act 9:2. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| No small stir about that way - Concerning the Gospel, which the apostles preached; and which is termed this way, Act 9:2, where see the note. |
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.