Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 17:5

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5-9. the Jews . . . moved with envy —seeing their influence undermined by this stranger. lewd fellows of the baser sort —better, perhaps, "worthless market people," that is, idle loungers about the market-place, of indifferent character. gathered a company —rather, "having raised a mob." assaulted the house of Jason —with whom Paul and Silas abode ( :- ), one of Paul's kinsmen, apparently ( :- ), and from his name, which was sometimes used as a Greek form of the word Joshua [GROTIUS], probably a Hellenistic Jew. sought to bring them —Jason's lodgers. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-6" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-act-17-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/act-17-5

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological