Kisah Para Rasul 19:33

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu seorang bernama Aleksander didorong ke depan oleh orang-orang Yahudi. Ia mendapat keterangan dari orang banyak tentang apa yang terjadi. Segera ia memberi isyarat dengan tangannya dan mau memberi penjelasan sebagai pembelaan di depan rakyat itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu seorang bernama Aleksander didorong ke depan oleh orang-orang Yahudi. Ia mendapat keterangan dari orang banyak tentang apa yang terjadi. Segera ia memberi isyarat dengan tangannya dan mau memberi penjelasan sebagai pembelaan di depan rakyat itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu mereka itu mengeluarkan dari antara orang banyak Iskandar, yang disorongkan oleh orang Yahudi ke hadapan. Maka Iskandar itu pun memberi isyarat dengan tangannya, hendak menjawabkan kepada orang banyak itu.

Contextual Overview

²¹ After these thinges were ended, Paul purposed in the spirite, when he had passed ouer Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Hierusalem, saying: After I haue ben there, I must also see Rome. ²² So sent he into Macedonia two of them that ministred vnto hym, Timotheus and Erastus, but he hym selfe remayned in Asia for a season. ²³ And the same time there arose no litle a do about that way. ²⁴ For a certaine man, named Demetrius, a syluer smyth, which made shrines for Diana, was not a litle beneficiall vnto the craftes men. ²⁵ Whom he called together, with the workemen of like occupation, and sayde: Sirs, ye knowe that by this craft we haue aduauntage. ²⁶ Moreouer, ye see and heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people, saying that they be not gods which are made with handes. ²⁷ So that not only this our craft commeth into peryll to be set at naught, but also that the temple of ye great goddesse Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the worlde worshippeth. ²⁸ And when they hearde these sayinges, they were full of wrath, and cryed out, saying: great is Diana of ye Ephesians. ²⁹ And all the citie was on a rore, & they russhed into the common hall with one assent, and caught Gaius & Aristarcus, men of Macedonia, Paules companions. ³⁰ When Paule woulde haue entred in vnto ye people, the disciples suffred hym not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Alexander: 1 Timothy 1:20, 2 Timothy 4:14

beckoned: Acts 12:17, Acts 13:16, Acts 21:40, Acts 24:10, Luke 1:22

his: Acts 22:1, Acts 26:1, Acts 26:2, Philippians 1:7

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
And Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doores after hym.

Genesis 19:7
And sayde: Nay, for Gods sake brethren, do not [so] wickedly.

Genesis 19:15
And when the mornyng arose, the angels caused Lot to speede him, saying: Stande vp, take thy wyfe, and thy two daughters which be at hande, lest thou perishe in the sinne of the citie.

Genesis 19:16
And as he prolonged the tyme, the men caught both him, his wife, and his two daughters by the handes, the Lorde beyng mercyfull vnto hym: and they brought hym foorth, and set hym without the citie.

Genesis 19:29
And it came to passe, that when God destroyed the cities of that region, he thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middest of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrewe the cities, in one of the whiche Lot dwelled.

Genesis 19:35
And the younger arose, and laye with hym: & he perceaued it not, neither whe she lay downe, neither whe she rose vp.

Proverbs 20:1
Wine maketh a man to be scornefull, & strong drinke causeth a man to be vnquiet: who so delighteth therin shall not be wyse.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they drew Alexander out of the multitude,.... Or "some of the multitude brought forth Alexander"; into the theatre, in order to kill him, by casting him to the wild beasts. Some think this is the same with Alexander the coppersmith, who apostatized upon this danger he was exposed to, and became a blasphemer, and a great enemy of the apostle, and did him much evil, 1 Timothy 1:20. This man, though his name was a Greek name, yet was a Jew, as is expressed in Acts 19:34 and from the times of Alexander the great, who was at Jerusalem, this name became common among the Jews;

Acts 19:34- :.

The Jews putting him forward; being equally enemies to him, as being under a profession of Christianity, as the Heathens were; or as the Syriac version reads, "the people of the Jews", that were there, out of themselves, pitched upon him as a proper person to still the uproar; and they brought him out of the multitude, to a convenient place, where he might be heard; and they the rather were forward to this, that he might lay all the blame of this confusion and uproar upon Paul and his companions, whom the Jews had an aversion to, as well as the Gentiles:

and Alexander beckoned with the hand; for silence, that he might be heard:

and would have made his defence unto the people; which looks as if he was a Christian, or at least was charged with being one, and was in danger of his life on that account; and therefore was desirous of being heard, that he might make an apology for the Christians, or remove such an imputation from himself, if he was not.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they drew Alexander - Who this Alexander was is not known. Grotius supposes that it was “Alexander the coppersmith, who had in some way done Paul much harm 2 Timothy 4:14; and whom, with Philetus, Paul had excommunicated. He supposes that it was a device of the Jews to put forward one who had been of the Christian party, in order to accuse Paul, and to attempt to cast the odium of the tumult on him. But it is not clear that the Alexander whom Paul had excommunicated was the person concerned in this transaction. All that appears in this narrative is, that Alexander was one who was known to be a Jew, and who wished to defend the Jews from being regarded as the authors of this tumult. It would be supposed by the pagan that the Christians Were only a sect of the Jews, and the Jews wished, doubtless, to show that they had not been concerned in giving occasion to this tumult, but that it was to be traced wholly to Paul and his friends.

The Jews putting him forward - That he might have a convenient opportunity to speak to the people.

Would have made his defence - Our translation, by the phrase “his defense,” would seem to imply that he was personally accused. But it was not so. The Greek is simply, “was about to apologize to the people”; that is, to make a defense, not of himself particularly, but of the Jews in general. The translation should have been “a defense.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. They drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward — From this and the following verses it is pretty evident that this Alexander was brought forward on this occasion by the Jews, that he might make an oration to the multitude, in order to exculpate the Jews, who were often by the heathens confounded with the Christians; and cast the whole blame of the uproar upon Paul and his party. And he was probably chosen because he was an able speaker; and when he beckoned with his hand; to gain an audience, the Greeks, knowing that he was a Jew, and consequently as much opposed to the worship of Diana as Paul was, would not hear him; and therefore, to drown his apology, τω δημω, for the people, viz. the Jews, they vociferated for the space of two hours, Great is Diana of the Ephesians! There does not seem any just ground from the text to suppose that this Alexander was a Christian; or that he was about to make an apology for the Christians: it is generally believed that he is the same with Alexander the coppersmith, of whom St. Paul speaks, 2 Timothy 4:14, and whom, with Philetus, he was obliged to excommunicate, 1 Timothy 1:20. By the Jews putting him forward, we are to understand their earnestness to get him to undertake their defence, and criminate, as much as possible, St. Paul and his companions, and the Christian cause in general; which he would no doubt have done, without vindicating the worship of Diana, which, as a Jew, he would not dare to attempt.