Acts 14:18 KJV — MannaFest

Acts 14:18

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

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ASV

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them.

WEB

Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.

YLT

and these things saying, scarcely did they restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.

DBT

And saying these things, they with difficulty kept the crowds from sacrificing to them.

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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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Jeremiah 44:16–17
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
Genesis 11:6
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
John 6:15
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Exodus 32:21–23
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
Genesis 19:9
And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

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Matthew 27:20

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Barnabas and Paul heard--Barnabas is put first here, apparently as having been styled the "Jupiter" of the company. they rent their clothes and ran in--rather (according to the true reading), "ran forth." among the people, crying out . . .

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

21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The outrage of the people against Paul, at the instigation of the Jews, the effect of which was that they stoned him, as they thought, to death; but he was wonderfully restored to life,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

with these sayings scarce restrained they the people that they had not done sacrifice to them--In spite of this, and Peter's repudiation of all such honor (Ac 10:26), how soon idolatrous tendencies began to show themselves in the Christian Church, at length to be systematized and enjoined in the Church of Rome!

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

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