And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
Parallel translations
- WEB About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.
- BSB About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.
- NKJV And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way.
- NASB About that time a major disturbance occurred in regard to the Way.
- NLT About that time, serious trouble developed in Ephesus concerning the Way.
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Quick answer
Around this time a serious disturbance arose in Ephesus concerning the Way.
Overview
The Way, the early name for the Christian faith, had grown influential enough to provoke organized opposition. This sets up the riot stirred by those whose livelihoods depended on idolatry. The conflict shows that the gospel's success threatened entrenched economic and religious interests.
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Cross-references · 8
- Acts 19:9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
- Acts 24:22And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
- 2 Cor 1:8–10For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
- Acts 9:2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
- Acts 24:14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
- Acts 22:4And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
- Acts 18:26And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
- 2 Cor 6:9As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
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