Acts 19:40 meaning and explanation
For we are in jeopardy of being charged with rioting for today’s events, and we have no justification to account for this commotion.”
Acts 19:40, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the city clerk of Ephesus, a civic official who steps in to calm a crowd that has gathered in the theatre during the riot stirred up by Demetrius the silversmith. His concern is legal and practical: Rome watched the provinces closely, and an unruly assembly could be treated as sedition.
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