Handelingen 19:32

32 Zij riepen dan de ene dit, de andere wat anders; want de vergadering was verward en het meerder deel wist niet, om wat oorzaak zij samengekomen waren.

Handelingen 19:32 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 19:32

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another
Not in the church at Ephesus among the disciples, and friends of the apostle, as if they were divided in their sentiments about his going into the theatre, some being for it, and others against it; but the people that were gathered together in the theatre, these were not agreed about the reason of this tumult, some said it was on account of one thing, and some another:

for the assembly was confused;
the multitude of people that were gathered together were made up of different persons, of different employments and sentiments, and were in no manner of form or order:

and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together;
there was a noise and a hubbub in the city; but what was the reason and meaning of it, they were ignorant of; they were got together into the theatre in great numbers, but what was to be done there they knew not. And this is too often the case in religious assemblies, that the majority, at least many, can give no account of the reason, end, and design of their assembling together.

Handelingen 19:32 In-Context

30 En als Paulus tot het volk wilde ingaan, lieten het hem de discipelen niet toe.

31 En sommigen ook der oversten van Azie, die hem vrienden waren, zonden tot hem, en baden, dat hij zichzelven op de schouwplaats niet zou begeven.

32 Zij riepen dan de ene dit, de andere wat anders; want de vergadering was verward en het meerder deel wist niet, om wat oorzaak zij samengekomen waren.

33 En zij deden Alexander uit de schare voortkomen, alzo hem de Joden voortstieten. En Alexander gewenkt hebbende met de hand, wilde bij het volk verantwoording doen.

34 Maar als zij verstonden, dat hij een Jood was, werd er een stem van allen, roepende omtrent twee uren lang: Groot is de Diana der Efezeren!