Kisah Para Rasul 16:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Setelah mereka membawa keduanya menghadap pembesar-pembesar kota itu, berkatalah mereka, katanya: "Orang-orang ini mengacau kota kita ini, karena mereka orang Yahudi,

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Setelah mereka membawa keduanya menghadap pembesar-pembesar kota itu, berkatalah mereka, katanya: "Orang-orang ini mengacau kota kita ini, karena mereka orang Yahudi,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
lalu dibawanya mereka itu menghadap penghulu-penghulu negeri itu, katanya, "Orang-orang ini orang Yahudi, sangat mengharu-birukan negeri kita,

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

being: Acts 18:2, Acts 19:34, Ezra 4:12-15, Esther 3:8, Esther 3:9

do: Acts 17:6-8, Acts 28:22, 1 Kings 18:17, 1 Kings 18:18, Matthew 2:3, John 15:18-20, Romans 12:2, James 4:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:4 - wherefore Jeremiah 15:10 - a man Jeremiah 38:4 - thus Daniel 3:8 - and accused Mark 13:9 - take Luke 23:2 - perverting Acts 16:37 - They have Acts 21:30 - all Acts 24:5 - we have 2 Corinthians 6:8 - honour James 2:6 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And brought them to the magistrates,.... The same as before; wherefore the Syriac version omits them there, and reads them both together here, calling them the magistrates and chief men of the city; though the word here used, properly signifies military captains, captains of the Roman militia: but that they were the same with the Decuriones, or ten men before mentioned, appears from what Harpocratian says k, that every year were chosen "ten στρατηγοι, magistrates", the word here used:

saying, these men being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city; they call Paul and Silas Jews, either because they knew them to be so, or because they attended at the Jewish oratory, or place of worship; and it was common with the Romans to call the Christians Jews; they were generally included in the same name; and this name of the Jews was become very odious with the Romans; a little after this, Claudius commanded them, the Jews, to depart from Rome, Acts 18:2 they were commonly looked upon as a troublesome and seditious sort of people, and indeed this was the old charge that was fastened upon them, Ezra 4:15. So that it was enough to say that Paul and Silas were Jews, to prove them to be disturbers of the public peace: and it is to be observed, that their accusers make no mention of the dispossessing of the maid, who was their private property, and which was a private affair; but pretend a concern for the public welfare, and bring a charge of public disturbance and detriment, to which their malice and revenge prompted them, hoping in this way the better to succeed: the Arabic version reads, "these two men trouble our city, and they are both Jews".

k Lexicon, p. 274.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And brought them to the magistrates - To the military rulers στρατηγοῖς stratēgois or praetors. Philippi was a Roman colony, and it is probable that the officers of the army exercised the double function of civil and military rulers.

Do exceedingly trouble our city - In what way they did it they specify in the next verse. The charge which they wished to substantiate was that of being disturbers of the public peace. All at once they became conscientious. They forgot the subject of their gains, and were greatly distressed about the violation of the laws. There is nothing that will make people more hypocritically conscientious than to denounce, and detect, and destroy their unlawful and dishonest practices. People who are thus exposed become suddenly filled with reverence for the Law or for religion, and they who have heretofore cared nothing for either become greatly alarmed lest the public peace should be disturbed. People slumber quietly in sin, and pursue their wicked gains; they hate or despise all law and all forms of religion; but the moment their course of life is attacked and exposed, they become full of zeal for laws that they Would not themselves hesitate to violate, and for the customs of religion which in their hearts they thoroughly despise. Worldly-minded people often thus complain that their neighborhoods are disturbed by revivals of religion; and the preaching of the truth, and the attacking of their vices, often arouses this hypocritical conscientiousness, and makes them alarmed for the laws, and for religion, and for order, which they at other times are the first to disturb and disregard.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 16:20. Brought them to the magistrates — στρατηγοις, The commanders of the army, who, very likely, as this city was a Roman colony, possessed the sovereign authority. The civil magistrates, therefore, having heard the case, as we shall soon find, in which it was pretended that the safety of the state was involved, would naturally refer the business to the decision of those who had the supreme command.

Exceedingly trouble our city — They are destroying the public peace, and endangering the public safety.