New Revised Standard Version
Even with these words, they scarcely restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them.

Contemporary English Version
Even after Paul and Barnabas had said all this, they could hardly keep the people from offering a sacrifice to them.

New American Bible
Even with these words, they scarcely restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And speaking these things, they scarce restrained the people from sacrificing to them.

And speaking these things, they scarce restrained the people from sacrificing to them.

scarce.

Genesis 11:6 And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.

Genesis 19:9 But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.

Exodus 32:21-23 And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin? . . .

Jeremiah 44:16,17 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee: . . .

John 6:15 Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by force and make him king, fled again into the mountains, himself alone.