Acts 18:13
New International Version
“This man,” they charged, “is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.”

New Living Translation
They accused Paul of “persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to our law.”

English Standard Version
saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law.”

Berean Standard Bible
“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.

Berean Literal Bible
saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the Law."

King James Bible
Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

New King James Version
saying, “This fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

New American Standard Bible
saying, “This man is inciting the people to worship God contrary to the law.”

NASB 1995
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

NASB 1977
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

Legacy Standard Bible
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

Amplified Bible
declaring, “This man is persuading people to worship God in violation of the law [of Moses].”

Christian Standard Bible
“This man,” they said, “is persuading people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This man,” they said, “persuades people to worship God contrary to the law!”

American Standard Version
saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
While they were saying, “This one persuades people to be worshiping God outside of The Law.”

Contemporary English Version
and said, "This man is trying to make our people worship God in a way that is against our Law!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

English Revised Version
saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They said, "This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are against Moses' Teachings."

Good News Translation
"This man," they said, "is trying to persuade people to worship God in a way that is against the law!"

International Standard Version
They said, "This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the Law."

Literal Standard Version
saying, “This one persuades men to worship God against the Law”;

Majority Standard Bible
“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.

New American Bible
saying, “This man is inducing people to worship God contrary to the law.”

NET Bible
saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!"

New Revised Standard Version
They said, “This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law.”

New Heart English Bible
saying, "This one persuades people to worship God contrary to the law."

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Weymouth New Testament
"This man," they said, "is inducing people to offer unlawful worship to God."

World English Bible
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

Young's Literal Translation
saying -- 'Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;'

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Context
Paul Before Gallio
12While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews coordinated an attack on Paul and brought him before the judgment seat. 13“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said. 14But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio told the Jews, “If this matter involved a wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to hear your complaint.…

Cross References
John 19:7
"We have a law," answered the Jews, "and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God."

Acts 18:15
But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things."


Treasury of Scripture

Saying, This fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

Acts 18:4
And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

Acts 6:13
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

Acts 21:28
Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

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Acts 18
1. Paul labors with his hands, and preaches at Corinth to the Gentiles.
9. The Lord encourages him in a vision.
12. He is accused before Gallio the deputy, but is dismissed.
18. Afterwards passing from city to city, he strengthens the disciples.
24. Apollos, being instructed by Aquila and Priscilla, preaches Christ boldly.














(13) This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.--It is obvious that in this appeal to the proconsul the Jews must have meant, not the law of Moses, but that of Rome. Their contention was that though Jews had been banished from Rome as a measure of policy, Judaism as such was still a relligio licita, tolerated and recognised by the State. Their charge against the Apostle was that he was preaching a new religion, which was not so recognised. The words "this fellow," though the substantive is an interpolation, fairly expresses the contempt implied in the use of the Greek pronoun.

Verse 13. - Man for fellow, A.V. The A.V. was intended to express the contemptuous feeling often implied in οϋτος (Luke 23:2; Matthew 12:24; Acts 5:28, etc.). Contrary to the Law; meaning, as it naturally would in the mouth of a Jew, the Law of Moses. Hence Gallio's answer in ver. 15, "If it be a question... of your Law, look ye to it." The very phrase, to "worship God," had a technical sense (see above, ver. 7). Paul, they said, professed to make proselytes, and encouraged them to break the Law.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
“This [man]
οὗτος (houtos)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

is persuading
ἀναπείθει (anapeithei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 374: To persuade, incite, seduce, tempt. From ana and peitho; to incite.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

[people]
ἀνθρώπους (anthrōpous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

to worship
σέβεσθαι (sebesthai)
Verb - Present Infinitive Middle or Passive
Strong's 4576: To reverence, worship, adore. Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to revere, i.e. Adore.

God
Θεόν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

in ways contrary to
Παρὰ (Para)
Preposition
Strong's 3844: Gen: from; dat: beside, in the presence of; acc: alongside of.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Law,”
νόμον (nomon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.

they said.
λέγοντες (legontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.


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