40For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
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And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
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. …
Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
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 ch…
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