Atos 19

Atos 19

Henry reminds us, “We may be called to lay down our lives, but not to throw away our lives.” As Knowling says "St. Paul was not the man to leave his comrades in the lurch." He would have made a good marine the motto of which is "Leave no man behind!" Paul was a strong-willed man, but on this occasion, he allowed other believers to influence some decisions (Acts 19:31). McGee is probably correct - Paul would have been mobbed, of course. He would absolutely have been killed. He already had one experience like that over in the Galatian country when he was stoned in Lystra. Assembly(1218)(demos) means people, populace, crowd, "the mass of the people assembled in a public place." BDAG says "in a Hellenistic city (demos described) a convocation of citizens called together for the purpose of transacting official business."