9But 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.
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And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. …
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.
But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-12)Paul is here very busy at Ephesus to do good. I. He begins, as usual, in the Jews’ synagogue, and makes the first offer of the gospel to them, that he might gather in the lost sheep of the house of Israel , who were now scattered upon the mountains. Observe, 1. Where he preached to them: in their synagogue (Acts 19:8), as Christ used to do. He went and joined them in their synagogue-worship, to ta…
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