Acts 19:26 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 19:26

And for moreover, A.V. We have here a wonderful testimony from an enemy to the power and efficacy of St. Paul's labors. Asia , here and in Acts 19:22 , etc., means Proconsular Asia, of which Ephesus was the chief city. That they be no gods , etc. This is an incidental proof that St. Paul's success at Ephesus lay chiefly among the heathen, since we know from Acts 14:15-17 ; Acts 17:23 , Acts 17:24 , etc., that this was exactly his style of preaching to Gentiles, quite different... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 19:26

Ye see and hear - You see at Ephesus, and you hear the same in other places.Throughout all Asia - All Asia Minor; or perhaps the province of which Ephesus was the capital. See the notes on Acts 2:9.This Paul hath persuaded - We have here the noble testimony of a pagan to the zeal and success of the ministry of Paul. It is an acknowledgment that his labors had been most strikingly successful in turning the people from idolatry.Saying that they be no gods ... - See the notes on Acts 14:14-15. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 19:23-27

Acts 19:23-27. The same time there arose no small stir Ταραχος ουκ ολιγος , no small tumult, about that way The way of worshipping God, and securing a happy immortality, which Paul taught. For Demetrius, a silversmith A man of considerable influence; who made silver shrines for Diana Greek, ναους αργυρους Αρτεμιδος , literally, silver temples of Diana; that is, silver models, or representations in miniature, of the temple of Diana, and of the image which, as they said, fell down... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 19:8-32

Ephesus and the surrounding region (19:8-22)After Paul had preached for three months in the synagogue, the Jews forced him out, so he went and taught in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. He carried on his teaching work there for the next two years, during which the disciples took the message into the surrounding countryside (8-10). This activity seems to have resulted in churches being founded, without Paul’s help, in the towns of Colossae, Hierapolis and Laodicea (Colossians 2:1; Colossians 4:13),... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 19:23-41

A riot in Ephesus (19:23-41)Paul preached and taught in Ephesus for almost three years (see 20:31), and many people became Christians. Ephesus was considered to be the home of the goddess Artemis (or Diana), and the citizens of Ephesus were the honoured guardians of the magnificent temple of Artemis in their city. With so many people turning from the worship of Artemis, the temple was losing its popularity. Furthermore, local silversmiths who made small images and household shrines of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 19:26

Moreover = And. see = behold. Greek. theoreo. App-133 . almost . See Acts 13:44 . turned away . Greek. methistemi. See note on Acts 13:22 . much people = a great crowd (Greek. ochlos) . gods . App-98 . with = by. Greek. dia. App-104 .Acts 19:1 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 19:26

And ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.Saying that they are no gods By this, Demetrius committed himself to the proposition opposite, namely, that their shrines were real gods. This is a glimpse of the practical fact regarding images, that being that they are indeed considered "gods" by the persons using them, regardless of the specious... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 19:26

Acts 19:26. That not alone at Ephesus, &c.— That this Paul has persuaded great numbers of people, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all the provinces of Asia, as they have occasionally visited us; and has turned them aside from the established religion, saying, that they are not true deities, which are made with hands, nor worthy of being at all worshipped or regarded. The last clause of this verse plainly shews, that the contrary opinion generally prevailed; namely, that there was a kind... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 19:26

26. ye see and hear—The evidences of it were to be seen, and the report of it was in everybody's mouth. that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath . . . turned away much people—Noble testimony this to the extent of Paul's influence! saying that they be no gods which are made with hands—The universal belief of the people was that they were gods, though the more intelligent regarded them only as habitations of Deity, and some, probably, as mere aids to devotion. It... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 19:21-31

D. The extension of the church to Rome 19:21-28:31"The panel is introduced by the programmatic statement of Acts 19:21-22 and concludes with the summary statement of Acts 28:31. Three features immediately strike the reader in this sixth panel: (1) the disproportionate length of the panel, including one-third of the total material of Acts; (2) the prominence given the speeches of Paul in his defense; and (3) the dominance of the ’we’ sections in the narrative portions (cf. Acts 20:5-15; Acts... read more