Acts 19:31 meaning and explanation

Even some of Paul’s friends who were officials of the province of Asia sent word to him, begging him not to venture into the theatre.

Acts 19:31, Berean Standard Bible

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These officials were the Asiarchs, leading men of the province who oversaw civic and religious affairs, and some of them were friendly to Paul. The theatre at Ephesus was a large open-air gathering place where the crowd had dragged Gaius and Aristarchus during the riot stirred up by Demetrius the silversmith.

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