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

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul -- contradicting and speaking evil.

and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, 'Your blood is upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,

'Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;

and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people -- till there is no healing.

'And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in unto this city, and on all its cities, all the evil that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck -- not to hear My words!'

'He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'

so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

But spake

And there came, at that time, not a little stir about the way,

did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

'And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'

and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;'

thou hast known this, that they did turn from me -- all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;

and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,

and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;

He departed

And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles,

And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue,

let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

'A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

'Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

Daily

'Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.

In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, 'As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me;

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

General references

and, some, indeed, were believing the things spoken, and some were not believing.