Acts 18:17 - Exposition

And they all laid hold on for then all the Greeks took, A.V. and T.R.; ruler for chief ruler, A.V. , as Acts 18:8 . The R.T. has far more manuscript support than either the T.R. or another reading, which has "Jews" instead of "Greeks." All means all the crowd of bystanders and lookers-on, mostly, no doubt, Greeks. The Jews, always unpopular, would be sure to have the Corinthian rabble against them as soon as the proconsul drove them from the judgment seat. Sosthenes . There is no probability whatever that he is the same person as the Sosthenes of 1 Corinthians 1:1 . The name was very common. He appears to have succeeded Crispus as ruler of the synagogue, and would be likely, therefore, to be especially hostile to Paul.