Acts 18:16

16 So he ordered them out of court.

Acts 18:16 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 18:16

And he drave them from the judgment seat.
] He would not hear, and try the cause; but dismissed them with threatening them, if ever they brought an affair of that kind to him any more.

Acts 18:16 In-Context

14 But, when Paul was about to begin his defence, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it had been some wrongful act or piece of cunning knavery I might reasonably have listened to you Jews.

15 But since these are questions about words and names and your Law, you yourselves must see to them. I refuse to be a judge in such matters."

16 So he ordered them out of court.

17 Then the people all set upon Sosthenes, the Warden of the synagogue, and beat him severely in front of the court. Gallio did not concern himself in the least about this.

18 After remaining a considerable time longer in Corinth, Paul took leave of the brethren and set sail for Syria; and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had shaved his head at Cenchreae, because he was bound by a vow.