Acts 19:9

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Acts 19:9

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Summary

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.

Divers

But spake

He departed

Daily

General references

Acts 28:24

Bible References

Divers

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to oppose what Paul was saying by insulting him.

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe

and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

But they would not listen. Instead they became obstinate like their ancestors who did not believe the Lord their God.

Don’t become obstinate

now like your fathers did. Give your allegiance to Yahweh, and come to His sanctuary that He has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God so that He may turn His burning anger away from you,

But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.

But our ancestors acted arrogantly;
they became stiff-necked and did not listen to Your commands.

Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness

He will be a sanctuary;
but for the two houses of Israel,
He will be a stone to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate;

they did more evil than their ancestors.

“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city—and on all its dependent villages—all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.’”

He has blinded

their eyes

and hardened their hearts,

so that they would not see with their eyes
or understand with their hearts,
and be converted,

and I would heal them.

So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.

What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,

But spake

During that time there was a major disturbance about the Way.

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women in jail,

or about this one statement I cried out while standing among them, ‘Today I am being judged before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”

But we would like to hear from you what you think. For concerning this sect, we are aware that it is spoken against everywhere.”

This you know: All those in Asia have turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

Many will follow their unrestrained ways, and the way of truth will be blasphemed because of them.

But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.

He departed

But the people of the city were divided, some siding with the Jews and some with the apostles.

Then some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a great number of God-fearing Greeks, as well as a number of the leading women.

So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.”

Then He left them and went away.

Do you think that I came here to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.

holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!

Daily

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

Anyone who listens to me is happy,
watching at my doors every day,
waiting by the posts of my doorway.

At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal, to capture Me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple complex, and you didn’t arrest Me.

Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching.

General references

Some were persuaded by what he said, but others did not believe.