The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    And all the cite was on a roore and they russhed in to the comen hall with one assent and caught Gayus and Aristarcus men of Macedonia Pauls companions.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And the whole citie was full of confusion, and they rushed into the common place with one assent, and caught Gaius, and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, and Pauls companions of his iourney.

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Cross-references (15)

Passages linked to Acts 19:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Acts 20:4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
  • Acts 27:2 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
  • Colossians 4:10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),
  • Philemon 1:24 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
  • Acts 19:22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
  • Acts 21:30 All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
  • Romans 16:23 Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
  • 1 Corinthians 1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
  • 1 Corinthians 4:9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
  • Acts 16:9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
  • Acts 17:8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
  • Acts 19:32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.
  • Acts 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
  • Acts 21:38 Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”
  • 2 Corinthians 8:19 Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 29. Luke setteth down in this place the nature…

29. Luke setteth down in this place the nature of the people, as if it were depainted in a table. Like as if a thousand houses should be set on fire at a sudden, so all the city was on an uproar in one moment; and when such a tempest is once raised, it is not easily stayed. And forasmuch as the servants of Christ cannot avoid this mischief, they must be armed with invincible constancy, that they may boldly suffer the tumults raised among the people, and that they may not be troubled as with some new and strange matter, when they see that the people is unquiet. So Paul himself doth elsewhere triumph that he went valiantly through the midst of sedition (2 Corinthians 6:5). Nevertheless, the Lord doth uphold the ministers of his word with an excellent comfort, when as they be tossed amidst diverse storms and garboils, and with excellent boldness doth he establish them, when he doth testify that he holdeth the helm of his Church; and not that only, but that he is the governor and moderator of all tumults and storms, so that he can stay the same so soon as it seemeth good to him. Therefore, let us know that we must sail as it were in a tempestuous sea; yet that we must suffer this infamy, as if we ourselves were the procurers of trouble? neither may anything lead us away from the right course of our duty. So that in sailing we shall be sore troubled; yet will not the Lord suffer us to suffer shipwreck. Furthermore, we see that though sedition be confused, yet doth the people always take the worse part; as the men of Ephesus do now catch Gains and Aristarchus, and they drive back Alexander with their furious outcries. Whence cometh this, save only because Satan doth reign in their hearts, so that they rather favor an evil cause? There is also another reason, because a prejudice conceived upon a false report doth possess their minds, so that they cannot abide to sift the cause any farther.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 29 And the whole city was filled with confusion:…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Filled with confusion; tumults and noise; all conditions of…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they drew Alexander out of the multitude,.... Or…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain They rushed with one accord - Demetrius and his…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 29. The whole city was filled with confusion]…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Confusion - Tumult; disorder.
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain having caught Gaius and Aristarchus--disappointed of Paul, as at…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 29. Gaius—Same name as the Latin Caius. This Gaius,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. And the whole city was filled with confusion]…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (29) The whole city was filled with confusion.—The loud…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The city for the whole city, and the confusion…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Gaius and Aristarchus… Pauls companions in travel
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 28
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 19:29 Archaeologists have excavated the amphitheater where the whole…

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