Acts 19:36 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁶Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

Acts 19:36 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Acts 5:35-39
And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men. …
Proverbs 25:8
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 21-41)

I. Paul is here brought into some trouble at Ephesus, just when he is forecasting to go thence, and to cut out work for himself elsewhere. See here, 1. How he laid his purpose of going to other places, Acts 19:21, 22. He was a man of vast designs for God, and was for making his influences as widely diffusive as might be. Having spent above two years at Ephesus, (1.) He designed a visit to the chur…

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

(vv. 36)

35-41. when the town-clerk--keeper of the public archives, and a magistrate of great authority. had appeased--“calmed.” the people--“the multitude,” which the very presence of such an officer would go far to do. he said ... what man ... knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana--literally, the neocoros or “warden.” The word means “temple-sweeper”; then,…