Focused Passage

Acts 19:8-10

The Word of the Lord Grows Mightily in Ephesus

Paul brings fuller gospel instruction to disciples in Ephesus, teaches the word daily until Asia hears it, confronts counterfeit spiritual power, sees public repentance from magic, and faces a riot because the gospel threatens Ephesian idolatry.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

8 Then Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.

9 But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

10 This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.

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Verse 8

Cross-references

Ephesians 1 BSB references Revelation 2 BSB references Ephesians 6:19 Classic cross-references 1 Corinthians 16:9 Classic cross-references Acts 20:31 Classic cross-references Acts 1:3 Classic cross-references Acts 28:23 Classic cross-references 2 Timothy 4:2 OliveGrove study links Acts 20:20-21 OliveGrove study links Colossians 1:13-14 OliveGrove study links

Original words

Then δὲ G1161 Conjunction [Paul] went Εἰσελθὼν G1525 Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular into εἰς G1519 Preposition the τὴν G3588 Article - Accusative Feminine Singular synagogue συναγωγὴν G4864 Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular [and] spoke boldly [there] ἐπαρρησιάζετο G3955 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular for ἐπὶ G1909 Preposition three τρεῖς G5140 Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural months μῆνας G3376 Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural arguing διαλεγόμενος G1256 Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular - καὶ G2532 Conjunction persuasively πείθων G3982 Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular - τὰ G3588 Article - Accusative Neuter Plural about περὶ G4012 Preposition the τῆς G3588 Article - Genitive Feminine Singular kingdom βασιλείας G932 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular - τοῦ G3588 Article - Genitive Masculine Singular of God Θεοῦ G2316 Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

Verse 9

Cross-references

Acts 9:2 Classic cross-references Acts 19:23 Classic cross-references Acts 18:6 Classic cross-references 2 Peter 2:12 Classic cross-references Acts 13:45 Classic cross-references 2 Timothy 4:2 OliveGrove study links Acts 20:20-21 OliveGrove study links Colossians 1:13-14 OliveGrove study links

Original words

But δέ G1161 Conjunction when ὡς G5613 Adverb some of them τινες G5100 Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural stubbornly ἐσκληρύνοντο G4645 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural - καὶ G2532 Conjunction refused to believe ἠπείθουν G544 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural vvv ἐνώπιον G1799 Preposition vvv τοῦ G3588 Article - Genitive Neuter Singular [and] publicly πλήθους G4128 Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular maligned κακολογοῦντες G2551 Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural the τὴν G3588 Article - Accusative Feminine Singular Way Ὁδὸν G3598 Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular [Paul] took ἀφώρισεν G873 Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular [his] τοὺς G3588 Article - Accusative Masculine Plural disciples μαθητάς G3101 Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural [and] left ἀποστὰς G868 Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular . . . ἀπ’ G575 Preposition [the synagogue] αὐτῶν G846 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural to conduct daily discussions διαλεγόμενος G1256 Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular . . . καθ’ G2596 Preposition . . . ἡμέραν G2250 Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular in ἐν G1722 Preposition the τῇ G3588 Article - Dative Feminine Singular lecture hall σχολῇ G4981 Noun - Dative Feminine Singular of Tyrannus Τυράννου G5181 Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

Verse 10

Cross-references

Acts 20:31 Classic cross-references Acts 20:18 Classic cross-references 2 Timothy 1:15 Classic cross-references Acts 13:49 Classic cross-references Acts 14:3 Classic cross-references 2 Timothy 4:2 OliveGrove study links Acts 20:20-21 OliveGrove study links Colossians 1:13-14 OliveGrove study links

Original words

- δὲ G1161 Conjunction This τοῦτο G3778 Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Singular continued ἐγένετο G1096 Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular for ἐπὶ G1909 Preposition two δύο G1417 Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural years ἔτη G2094 Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural so that ὥστε G5620 Conjunction everyone πάντας G3956 Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural who τοὺς G3588 Article - Accusative Masculine Plural lived κατοικοῦντας G2730 Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural in τὴν G3588 Article - Accusative Feminine Singular [the province of] Asia Ἀσίαν G773 Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Jews Ἰουδαίους G2453 Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural and καὶ G2532 Conjunction Greeks Ἕλληνας G1672 Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural alike τε G5037 Conjunction heard ἀκοῦσαι G191 Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active the τὸν G3588 Article - Accusative Masculine Singular word λόγον G3056 Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular of the τοῦ G3588 Article - Genitive Masculine Singular Lord Κυρίου G2962 Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

BSB notes

Literally in Asia; Asia was a Roman province in what is now western Turkey; similarly in verses 22, 26, 27, and 31.

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