Acts 18:12 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 18:12

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews coordinated an attack on Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,

KJV

And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

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Commentary

4 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Acts (1107)

How then, someone will ask, "did the Jews attack Paul with one accord?" By seizing him suddenly. And yet they dared do nothing, but brought him to the proconsul. And he drove them away from the judgment seat. It seems to me that this was …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia - Of which Corinth was the chief city. This Gallio, the brother of the famous Seneca, is much commended both by him and by other writers, for the sweetness and generosity of his temper, and easiness of his behaviour.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

In this city, though it be a very profane wicked city, full of impurity, and the more so for a temple of Venus there, to which there was a great resort, yet in this heap, that seems to be all chaff, there is wheat; in this ore, that seems to be all dross, there is gold. Let us not despair concerning any place, when even in Corinth Christ had much people.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

When Gallio was the deputy of Achaia - The Romans comprehended, under the name of Achaia, all that part of Greece which lay between Thessaly and the southernmost coasts of Peloponnesus. Pausanias, in Attic. vii. 16, says that the Romans were accustomed to send a governor into that country, and that they called him the governor of Achaia, not of Greece; because the Achaeans, when they subdued Greece, were the leaders in all the Grecian affairs see also Suetonius, in his life of Claudius, cap. xxv., and Dio Cassius, lx. 24. Edit. Reimari.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Γαλλίωνος	Galliōnos	When Gallio	G1058 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ἀνθυπάτου	anthupatou	proconsul	G446 →
ὄντος	ontos	being	G1510 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
Ἀχαΐας	Achaias	of Achaia	G882 →
κατεπέστησαν	katepestēsan	rose up	G2721 →
ὁμοθυμαδὸν	homothumadon	with one accord	G3661 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
Ἰουδαῖοι	Ioudaioi	Jews	G2453 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Παύλῳ	Paulō	against Paul	G3972 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἤγαγον	ēgagon	led	G71 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
ἐπὶ	epi	to	G1909 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
βῆμα,	bēma	judgment seat,	G968 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 13:50
The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
leads to
- Acts 13:45
  But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
- Acts 14:2
  But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
- Acts 14:19
  Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
- Acts 17:13
  But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
- 2 Timothy 3:11
  my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
Through
2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
leads to
- 2 Timothy 1:1
  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
- Philippians 1:1
  Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:
Through
Matthew 27:19
While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”
leads to
- Zechariah 9:9
  Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of…