Acts 17:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

Acts 17:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 11:48
If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Matthew 2:3
When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Paul’s two epistles to the Thessalonians, the first two he wrote by inspiration, give such a shining character of that church, that we cannot but be glad here in the history to meet with an account of the first founding of the church there. I. Here is Paul’s coming to Thessalonica, which was the chief city of this country, called at this day Salonech, in the Turkish dominions. Observe, 1. Paul wen…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

5-9. the Jews ... moved with envy--seeing their influence undermined by this stranger. lewd fellows of the baser sort--better, perhaps, “worthless market people,” that is, idle loungers about the market-place, of indifferent character. gathered a company--rather, “having raised a mob.” assaulted the house of Jason--with whom Paul and Silas abode (Ac 17:7), one of Paul’s kinsmen, apparently (Ro 16:…