Acts 16:20 KJV — MannaFest

Acts 16:20

And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

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ASV

and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

WEB

They brought them to the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews and are throwing our city into turmoil

YLT

and having brought them to the magistrates, they said, `These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews;

DBT

and having brought them up to the praetors, said, These men utterly trouble our city, being Jews,

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Acts — The Gospel's sequel. Jerusalem → Judea and Samaria → the ends of the earth. Three missionary journeys and the voyage to Rome.

Author: Luke, companion of Paul — the 'we' passages begin in 16:10
Date: c. AD 62

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Esther 3:8
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 Kings 18:17
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
Luke 23:2
And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
Jeremiah 38:4
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

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They take it for granted that these men are Jews, a nation at this time as much an abomination to the Romans as they had long ago been to the Egyptians. Piteous was the case of the apostles, when it was turned to their reproach that they were Jews, and yet the Jews were their most violent persecutors!

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

There is some color of truth in all such accusations, in so far as the Gospel, and generally the fear of God, as a reigning principle of human action, is in a godless world a thoroughly revolutionary principle . . .

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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