Acts 14:18 “Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds…”

Acts 14:18

Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

World English Bible

Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

American Standard Version

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them.

Geneva Bible 1599

And speaking these things, scarce appeased they the multitude, that they had not sacrificed vnto them.

Darby Translation

And saying these things, they with difficulty kept the crowds from sacrificing to them.

Young's Literal Translation

and these things saying, scarcely did they restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.

Bible in Basic English

And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.

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Cross references

“scarce”

Genesis 11:6 Exodus 32:21–23 John 6:15 Genesis 19:9 Jeremiah 44:16 Jeremiah 44:17

Genesis 11:6 · BSB

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Exodus 32:21–23 · BSB

“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”

John 6:15 · BSB

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.

Genesis 19:9 · BSB

“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break d…

Jeremiah 44:16 · BSB

“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Jeremiah 44:17 · BSB

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the str…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

19Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.

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