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

Jude 1:10

He departed

1 Timothy 6:5

Daily

Acts 20:31

Matthew 26:55

2 Timothy 4:2

General references

Acts 28:24

Bible References

Divers

Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you!

But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it ??8 as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not ??down to this very day.

But spake

It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened.

and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem.

I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women,

We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."

You are aware that all the Asiatics have discarded me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);

But these people scoff at anything they do not understand; and whatever they do understand, like irrational animals, by mere instinct, that proves their ruin.

He departed

The populace of the town was divided; some sided with the Jews, some with the apostles.

Some were persuaded and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, including a host of devout Greeks and a large number of the leading women.

Then he removed to the house of a devout proselyte called Titus Justus, which adjoined the synagogue.

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

"It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, and no Sign shall be given to it except the Sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away.

You think I am here to make peace on earth? No, I tell you, it is dissension.

and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

Daily

So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me.

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

General references

Some were convinced by what he said, but the others would not believe.