Acts Chapter 14 verse 4 Holy Bible
But the multitude of the city was divided; and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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But there was a division among the people of the town; some were on the side of the Jews and some on the side of the Apostles.
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And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews and some with the apostles.
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But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Was divided (ἐσχίσθη); hence σχίσμα a schism (see John 7:43; John 9:16; John 10:19; 1 Corinthians 1:10).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) The multitude of the city was divided.--The context shows that St. Luke writes of the bulk of the heathen population. No numbers are given, but we may fairly assume that the converts were in a minority, and that they belonged, as a rule, to the lower classes (1Corinthians 1:26-27), and that the chief men and women of the city, as at the Pisidian Antioch (Acts 13:50), were against them. The "rulers" who are named would seem, from the form of punishment selected, to have been those of the Jewish synagogue, and the crime of which the preachers were accused, as in the case of Stephen, to have been blasphemy. (See Notes on Acts 7:58; John 10:31.)
