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

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some said, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,"because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

Now some were shouting one thing, some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and most of the people did not know why they had come together.

Some in the crowd shouted one thing, and some another; and as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.