Acts 19:39

39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

Acts 19:39 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 19:39

But if ye inquire anything concerning other matters
Than what belongs to the craft and business of Demetrius, and the artificers:

it shall be determined in a lawful assembly;
that is, called together according to law, and who have a right to hear, try, and judge causes, which such a confused lawless assembly as this in the theatre had not.

Acts 19:39 In-Context

37 For ye have brought here these men, who are neither guilty of sacrilege, nor blasphemers of your goddess.

38 Therefore if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.

39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

40 For we are in danger of being accused of sedition for this day’s uproar, there being no cause by which we may give an account of this concourse.

41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.