Kisah Para Rasul 16:19

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ketika tuan-tuan perempuan itu melihat, bahwa harapan mereka akan mendapat penghasilan lenyap, mereka menangkap Paulus dan Silas, lalu menyeret mereka ke pasar untuk menghadap penguasa.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika tuan-tuan perempuan itu melihat, bahwa harapan mereka akan mendapat penghasilan lenyap, mereka menangkap Paulus dan Silas, lalu menyeret mereka ke pasar untuk menghadap penguasa.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Apabila dilihat oleh tuan-tuannya, bahwa pengharapan keuntungannya sudah hilang, lalu mereka itu pun memegangkan Paulus dan Silas serta menghela mereka itu ke pekan menghadap orang besar-besar,

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ And it came to passe, as we went to prayer, a certayne damsell, possessed with a spirite of southsaying met vs: which brought her maisters much vantage with southsaying. ¹⁷ The same folowed Paul and vs, and cryed, saying: These men are the seruauntes of the most hye God, which shewe vnto vs the way of saluation. ¹⁸ And this dyd she many dayes. But Paul not content, turned about, & sayde to the spirite, I commaunde thee in the name of Iesu Christe, that thou come out of her. And he came out the same houre. ¹⁹ And when her maisters sawe that the hope of their gaynes was gone, they caught Paul & Silas, and drewe them into the market place, vnto the rulers, ²⁰ And brought them to the officers, saying: These men trouble our citie, being Iewes: ²¹ And preache ordinaunces, which are not lawfull for vs to receaue, neither to obserue, seeyng we are Romanes. ²² And the people ran agaynst them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes. ²³ And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into pryson, commaundyng the iayler of the pryson to kepe them diligently. ²⁴ Which when he had receaued such commaundement, thrust them into the inner pryson, and made their feete fast in the stockes.

Bible Verse Review
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the hope: Acts 19:24-27, 1 Timothy 6:10

they: Acts 9:16, Acts 14:5, Acts 14:19, Acts 15:26, Acts 18:12, Acts 18:13, Acts 21:30, Matthew 10:16-18, Matthew 24:9, Mark 13:9, 2 Corinthians 6:5

marketplace: or, court

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 26:9 - And all Daniel 6:12 - they Zephaniah 1:9 - which Acts 4:3 - laid Acts 6:12 - and caught Acts 15:22 - Silas Acts 17:6 - they drew Acts 19:25 - ye know Acts 19:28 - they 2 Corinthians 11:26 - in perils by the Philippians 1:30 - which 1 Thessalonians 1:1 - Silvanus James 2:6 - and Revelation 18:15 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when her masters saw,.... As they might by her sedateness and composure; she not being wild and frantic, and not having such motions and agitations she had whilst under the possession of the evil spirit:

that the hope of their gains was gone; the Syriac version adds, "out of her"; namely, the evil spirit which was the ground and foundation of all their hope of gains, they expected to acquire for themselves; that being gone, they had no more work to do, nor tricks to play, nor profit to expect from the maid: wherefore

they caught Paul and Silas; they being the chief speakers, and principally concerned in the ejection of the evil spirit; they laid hold on them, took them by the collar, or held them by their clothes,

and drew them into the market place: or rather into the court of judicature, as the word also signifies; there to accuse them, and to have them tried, condemned, and punished:

unto the rulers; the judges of the court, it may be the Decuriones; for in a Roman colony as Philippi was, they chose out every tenth man, that was of capacity and ability, to make and establish a public council, and who therefore were called by this name.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The hope of their gains was gone - It was this that troubled and enraged them. Instead of regarding the act as proof of divine power, they were intent only on their profits. Their indignation furnishes a remarkable illustration of the fixedness with which people will regard wealth; of the fact that the love of it will blind them to all the truths of religion, and all the proofs of the power and presence of God; and of the fact that any interposition of divine power that destroys their hopes of gain, fills them with wrath, and hatred, and complaining. Many a man has been opposed to God and his gospel because, if religion should be extensively prevalent, his hopes of gain would be gone. Many a slave-dealer, and many a trafficker in ardent spirits, and many a man engaged in other unlawful modes of gain, has been unwilling to abandon his employments simply because his hopes of gain would be destroyed. No small part of the opposition to the gospel arises from the fact that, if embraced, it would strike at so much of the dishonorable employments of people, and make them honest and conscientious.

The market-place - The court or forum. The market-place was a place of concourse, and the courts were often held in or near those places.

The rulers - The term used here refers commonly to civil magistrates.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 16:19. When her masters saw — It appears she was maintained by some men, who received a certain pay from every person whose fortune she told, or to whom she made any discovery of stolen goods, c., c.

The hope of their gains was gone — Ἡ ελπις, This hope viz. the spirit. So completely was this spirit cast out that the girl could divine no more and yet she continued a heathen still, for we do not hear a word of her conversion. Had she been converted, got baptized, and been associated with the apostles, the family of Lydia, c., there would have been some show of reason to believe that there had been no possession in the case, and that the spirit of divination coming out of her meant no more than that, through scruple of conscience, she had left off her imposing arts, and would no longer continue to pretend to do what she knew she could not perform. But she still continued with her masters, though now utterly unable to disclose any thing relative to futurity!

Drew them into the market-place — This was the place of public resort, and, by bringing them here, they might hope to excite a general clamour against them and probably those who are here called τους αρχοντας, the rulers, were civil magistrates, who kept offices in such public places, for the preservation of the peace of the city. But these words, the rulers, are suspected to be an interpolation by some critics: I think on no good ground.