Acts Chapter 20 verse 30 Holy Bible
and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
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And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.
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and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
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Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
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Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
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and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - And from among for also of, A.V.; the disciples for disciples, A.V. From among your own selves; as opposed to the strangers from Judaea in the preceding verse. So 2 Timothy 4:3, "The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears" (see, as instances, 2 Timothy 2:17, 18; 2 Timothy 4:14). Speaking perverse things. So 2 Timothy 4:4, "They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." To draw away the disciples, etc.; i.e. to induce Christians to leave the communion and doctrine of the Church, and join their heresy. The A.V., "to draw away disciples," is manifestly wrong; τοὺς μαθητὰς are Christ's disciples. For the general statement, see 2 Timothy 3:6, "They which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women;" and comp. Romans 16:17, 18, which, according to Renan, was addressed to the Ephesians. For the rise of false teachers in Asia, see 1 Timothy 1:3, 20; 1 Timothy 4:1-7; 1 Timothy 6:20, 21; 2 Timothy 1:15; 1 John 2:26; 1 John 4:1, 3, 5; and through the whole Epistle; Revelation 2:1-7.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) Of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things.--The Pastoral Epistles, 2 Peter and Jude, supply but too abundant evidence of the clearness of the Apostle's prevision. Hymenaeus and Alexander and Philetus, saying that the resurrection was past already (1Timothy 1:20; 2Timothy 2:17); evil men and seducers becoming worse and worse (2Timothy 3:13); resisting the faith, as Jannes and Jambres had resisted Moses (2Timothy 3:8); false prophets, bringing in damnable heresies and denying the Lord that bought them (2Peter 2:1); these were part of the rank aftergrowth of the apostolic age, of which St. Paul saw even now the germs. It adds to the pathos of this parting to think that men such as Hymenaeus and Philetus may have been actually present, listening to the Apostle's warnings, and warned by him in vain.To draw away disciples after them.--Better, to draw away the disciples--those who had previously been disciples of Christ and His Apostles. This was at once the motive and the result of the work of the false teachers. The note of heresy was that it was essentially self-asserting and schismatical. . . .
