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

Acts 20:31

Matthew 26:55

2 Timothy 4:2

General references

Acts 28:24

Bible References

Divers

O! stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.

But the sight of the crowds of people filled the minds of the Jews with jealousy, and they kept contradicting Paul's statements in violent language.

However, as they set themselves against him and became abusive, Paul shook his clothes in protest and said to them: "Your blood be on your own heads. My conscience is clear. From this time forward I shall go to the Gentiles."

'He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn--And I should heal them.'

So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.

What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.

But spake

Just about that time a great disturbance arose about the Cause.

And asked him to give him letters to the Jewish congregations at Damascus, authorizing him, if he found there any supporters of the Cause, whether men or women, to have them put in chains and brought to Jerusalem.

In my persecution of this Cause I did not stop even at the taking of life. I put in chains, and imprisoned, men and women alike--

Except as to the one sentence that I shouted out as I stood among them--'It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial before you to-day'."

But we shall be glad to hear from you what your views are, for, with regard to this sect, we are well aware that it is spoken against on all sides."

You know, of course, that all our friends in Roman Asia turned their backs on me, and among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.

There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned.

But these men malign whatever they do not understand; while they use such things as they know by instinct (like the animals that have no reason) for their own corruption.

He departed

But the townspeople were divided, some siding with the Jews, some with the Apostles;

Some of the people were convinced, and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, as did also a large body of Greeks who were accustomed to join in the Jewish services, and a great number of women belonging to the leading families.

So he left, and went to the house of a certain Titius Justus, who had been accustomed to join in the worship of God, and whose house was next door to the Synagogue.

Let them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind man guides another, both of them will fall into a ditch."

A wicked and unfaithful generation is asking for a sign, but no sign shall be given it except the sign of Jonah." So he left them and went away.

Do you think that I am here to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but to cause division.

and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.

and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.

Daily

Therefore, be on your guard, remembering how for three years, night and day, I never ceased, even with tears, to warn each one of you.

Jesus at the same time said to the crowds: "Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me? I have sat teaching day after day in the Temple Courts, and yet you did not arrest me."

Proclaim the Message, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, never failing to instruct with forbearance.

General references

Some were inclined to accept what he said; others, however, rejected it.