Acts 14:18

18 Talking fast and hard like this, they prevented them from carrying out the sacrifice that would have honored them as gods - but just barely.

Acts 14:18 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 14:18

And with these sayings
Concerning themselves, and concerning the living God, his creation of all things, and his providential goodness:

scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice
unto them;
so resolute were they upon it, that it was with great difficulty that they persuaded them from it: in four of Beza's manuscripts, and in some other copies, it is added, "but everyone went to his own house"

Acts 14:18 In-Context

16 "In the generations before us, God let all the different nations go their own way.

17 But even then he didn't leave them without a clue, for he made a good creation, poured down rain and gave bumper crops. When your bellies were full and your hearts happy, there was evidence of good beyond your doing."

18 Talking fast and hard like this, they prevented them from carrying out the sacrifice that would have honored them as gods - but just barely.

19 Then some Jews from Antioch and Iconium caught up with them and turned the fickle crowd against them. They beat Paul unconscious, dragged him outside the town and left him for dead.

20 But as the disciples gathered around him, he came to and got up. He went back into town and the next day left with Barnabas for Derbe.