Kisah Para Rasul 19:40

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebab kita berada dalam bahaya akan dituduh, bahwa kita menimbulkan huru-hara pada hari ini, karena tidak ada alasan yang dapat kita kemukakan untuk membenarkan kumpulan yang kacau-balau ini."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab kita berada dalam bahaya akan dituduh, bahwa kita menimbulkan huru-hara pada hari ini, karena tidak ada alasan yang dapat kita kemukakan untuk membenarkan kumpulan yang kacau-balau ini."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena kita ini di dalam bahaya akan didakwa oleh sebab huru-hara yang jadi pada hari ini dengan tiada sesuatu sebab yang dapat kita menjawab dari hal perkumpulan riuh ini." Setelah sudah ia berkata demikian, maka disuruhnya perhimpunan itu pulang.

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

we are: Acts 17:5-8

uproar: Acts 20:1, Acts 21:31, Acts 21:38, 1 Kings 1:41, Matthew 26:5

Reciprocal: Acts 19:32 - and the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we are in danger of being called in question,.... Or are liable to be called to an account, reproved, and punished by the Roman proconsul, appointed over this city, or by the Roman emperor, or the Roman senate: for this day's uproar; it being capable of being interpreted as a riot, tumult, and sedition:

there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse: or no reason can be assigned, why such a number of people should gather together; none can be given that will justify it, or that can be alleged in favour of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To be called in question - By the government; by the Roman authority. Such a tumult, continued for so long. a time, would be likely to attract the attention of the magistrates, and expose them to their displeasure. Popular commotions were justly dreaded by the Roman government; and such an assembly as this, convened without any good cause, would not escape their notice. There was a Roman law which made it capital for anyone to be engaged in promoting a riot. Sui coetum, et concursum fecerit, capite puniatur: “He who raises a mob, let him be punished with death.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 19:40. For we are in danger, c.] Popular commotions were always dreaded by the Roman government and so they should by all governments; for, when might has nothing to direct its operations but passion, how destructive must these operations be! One of the Roman laws made all such commotions of the people capital offenses against those who raised them. Qui caetum et concursus fecerit, capite puniatur: "He who raises a mob shall forfeit his life." If such a law existed at Ephesus-and it probably did, from this reference to it in the words of the town-clerk or recorder-then Demetrius must feel himself in great personal danger; and that his own life lay now at the mercy of those whom he had accused, concerning whom he had raised such an outcry, and against whom nothing disorderly could be proved.