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Opposition as a Violent Storm
Commentators note the Greek words for “stirring up” and “troubling” evoke violent imagery, like the sea agitated by wind or the ground shaken by an earthquake. This wasn't a simple disagreement; it was a deliberate and forceful incitement of the crowds against the gospel.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 17:13
18th Century
Theologian
Stirred up the people. The word used here, saleuontev, properly denotes to agitate, or excite, as the waves of the sea a…
AT Robertson
On Acts 17:13
Was proclaimed (κατηγγελη). Second aorist passive indicative of καταγγελλω, common late verb as in Ac 16:21.
Of Pau…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 17:13
19th Century
Bishop
They came thither also, and stirred up the people.—To the unbelieving Jews of Thessalonica the conversions at Berea were …
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 17:13
The Thessalonian Jews, on hearing that “the word of God” was being preached at Berea, sent a delegation there to stir up the same opposition as at …
John Calvin
On Acts 17:13
16th Century
Theologian
And when the Jews. We see how the Jews were carried to and fro with such hatred of the gospel as could never be appeased. For they not onl…
John Gill
On Acts 17:13
17th Century
Pastor
But when the Jews of Thessalonica
The unbelieving Jews there,
had knowledge that the word of God …
Matthew Henry
On Acts 17:10–15
17th Century
Minister
The Jews in Berea diligently studied the word preached to them. They not only heard Paul preach on the Sabbath, but daily searched the Scriptures a…