Act 17:5-6, Phili 1:30 | JFB | STEP | 5-9. the Jews . . . moved with envy —seeing their influence undermined by this stranger. lewd fellows of the baser sort —better, perhaps, "worthless market people," that is, idle loungers about the market-place, of indifferent character. gathered a company —rather, "having raised a mob." assaulted the house of Jason —with whom Paul and Silas abode ( ), one of Paul's kinsmen, apparently ( ), and from his name, which was sometimes used as a Greek form of the word Joshua [GROTIUS ], probably a Hellenistic Jew. sought to bring them

Acts 17:5-6

5-9. the Jews . . . moved with envy—seeing their influence undermined by this stranger.

lewd fellows of the baser sort—better, perhaps, "worthless market people," that is, idle loungers about the market-place, of indifferent character.

gathered a company—rather, "having raised a mob."

assaulted the house of Jason—with whom Paul and Silas abode (Ac 17:7), one of Paul's kinsmen, apparently (Ro 16:21), and from his name, which was sometimes used as a Greek form of the word Joshua [GROTIUS], probably a Hellenistic Jew.

sought to bring them—Jason's lodgers.

6. And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers—literally, "the politarchs"; the very name given to the magistrates of Thessalonica in an inscription on a still remaining arch of the city—so minute is the accuracy of this history.

crying, These that have turned the world upside down—(See on Ac 16:20).

Philippians 1:30

30. ye saw in me— (Ac 16:12, 19, &c.; 1Th 2:2). I am "in nothing terrified by mine adversaries" (Php 1:29), so ought not ye. The words here, "ye saw . . . and . . . hear," answer to "I come and see you, or else . . . hear" (Php 1:27).