Acts Chapter 19 verse 30 Holy Bible
And when Paul was minded to enter in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
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And when Paul was about to go in to the people, the disciples did not let him.
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But Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples suffered him not;
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And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
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When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn't allow him.
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And on Paul's purposing to enter in unto the populace, the disciples were not suffering him,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - Was minded to enter for would have entered, A.V. With the courage of a pure conscience, conscious of no wrong, and therefore fearing no wrong, Paul would have gone straight to the theatre, and cast in his lot with Gaius and Aristarchus; but the disciples, knowing the savage temper of the multitude, dissuaded him; and when their entreaties were backed by the magistrates, Paul thought it his duty to yield. To enter in unto the people. Αἰσελθεῖν, or προσελθεῖν εἰς ἐπὶ τὸν δῆμον or τῷ δήμῳ are phrases implying the intention of pleading his cause before them (see Schleusner and Kuinoel, on Acts 19:30).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) When Paul would have entered in . . .--We almost see the impetuous zeal which urged the Apostle not to leave his companions to bear the brunt of the attack alone, and the anxious fear which made his friends eager to prevent a step which would probably endanger his own life without helping his friends. He refers probably to this when he speaks of having, as far as man was concerned, "fought with beasts at Ephesus" (1Corinthians 15:32); not that there was any actual danger of martyrdom in that form, but that the multitude in their fanatic rage presented as formidable an ordeal. So Ignatius (Ep. ad Rom. c. 3) speaks of himself as "fighting with wild beasts" (using the same word as St. Paul), and describes the soldiers who kept guard over him in his journey from Antioch to Rome as the "ten leopards" who were his companions.
