Acts Chapter 14 verse 18 Holy Bible
And with these sayings scarce restrained they the multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them.
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And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.
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And saying these things, they with difficulty kept the crowds from sacrificing to them.
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And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
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Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
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and these things saying, scarcely did they restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - The multitudes for the people, A.V.; from doing for that they had not done, A.V.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) with these sayings scarce restrained they the people.--On some of those who were thus restrained the effect may well have been that they were roused to a higher life and did turn from "vanities" to the living God. We must, at any rate, think of St. Paul's work at Lystra as lasting long enough to allow time for the foundation of a church there. Among the more conspicuous converts were the devout Jewesses, Lois and her daughter Eunice (more accurately, Eunike), and the young Timotheus (2Timothy 1:5). No mention is made of his father, and Eunice may have been a widow; but the fact that the boy had grown up uncircumcised rather suggests the influence of a living father. (See Note on Acts 16:3.)
