And some of them believed, and joined in company with Paul and Silas: also of the Grecians that feared God a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

[a]But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain [b]vagabonds and wicked fellows, and when they had assembled the multitude, they made a tumult in the city, and made assault against the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

But when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the heads of the city, crying, These are they which have subverted the state of the [c]world, and here they are,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:5 Although the zeal of the unfaithful seems never so goodly, yet at length it is found to have neither truth nor equity: But yet the wicked cannot do what they list, for even among themselves God stirreth up some, whose help he useth to the deliverance of his.
  2. Acts 17:5 Certain companions which do nothing but walk the streets, wicked men, to be hired for every man’s money, to do any mischief, such as we commonly call the rascals and very sinks and dunghill knaves of all towns and cities.
  3. Acts 17:6 Into what country and place soever they come, they cause sedition and tumult.

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