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Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn`t care about any of these things.
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The Persecutor Becomes a Brother
Commentators find a powerful irony in this verse. Sosthenes, the synagogue ruler who likely led the charge against Paul, is the one who ends up being beaten. Several scholars connect him to the Sosthenes mentioned as a 'brother' and coworker of Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:1. They suggest this humiliating event may have, in God's providence, led to his own conversion to the faith he once persecuted.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Then all the Greeks. The Greeks who had witnessed the persecution of Paul by the Jews, and who had seen the tumult they had stirred up.
They all laid hold on Sosthenes (επιλαβομενο παντες Σωσθενην). See 16:19; 17:19 for the same form. Here is violent hostile reactio…
19th Century
Anglican
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue.—The better manuscripts omit the word “Greeks,” whic…
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Baptist
Perhaps Gallio liked it. "You came here," he said, "to accuse Paul, to get him beaten: now the mob is beating you, and serve you right. I shall not…
Taking their cue from the snub that Gallio gave the leaders of the Jewish community, the crowd at the forum—in an outbreak of the anti-Semitism tha…
16th Century
Protestant
All the Grecians having taken Sosthenes. This is that Sosthenes whom Paul honorably couples with himself as his companion in the beginning…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes These were not the Greeks or Gentiles that were devout persons, or converted to C…
Paul was about to show that he did not teach people to worship God contrary to the law; but the judge would not allow the Jews to complain to him a…
