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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Stirred up the people. The word used here, saleuontev, properly denotes to agitate, or excite, as the waves of the sea a…
Was proclaimed (κατηγγελη). Second aorist passive indicative of καταγγελλω, common late verb as in Ac 16:21.
Of Pau…
19th Century
Anglican
They came thither also, and stirred up the people.—To the unbelieving Jews of Thessalonica the conversions at Berea were …
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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 …
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But when the Jews of Thessalonica The unbelieving Jews there,
had knowledge that the word of God …
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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…
