Acts 19:36

36 These facts, then, being unquestioned, it becomes you to maintain your self-control and not act recklessly.

Acts 19:36 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 19:36

Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against,
&c.] This officer intimates, in order to quiet the mob, and make them easy, that these things were so certain, and well known, that nobody would pretend to contradict them, and therefore they must be mistaken in the men, whom they had hurried into the theatre; it was impossible that they, or any men, should be capable of saying any thing against the truth of these things: therefore

ye ought to be quiet and do nothing rashly;
to these men, to their hurt, but sit down, and compose yourselves, and think again, and consider of this matter, and not go into any hasty measures, which may, in the issue, be prejudicial to yourselves.

Acts 19:36 In-Context

34 No sooner, however, did they see that he was a Jew, than there arose from them all one roar of shouting, lasting about two hours. "Great is the Ephesian Diana," they said.

35 At length the Recorder quieted them down. "Men of Ephesus," he said, "who is there of all mankind that needs to be told that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Diana and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

36 These facts, then, being unquestioned, it becomes you to maintain your self-control and not act recklessly.

37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

38 If, however, Demetrius and the mechanics who support his contention have a grievance against any one, there are Assize-days and there are Proconsuls: let the persons interested accuse one another.