Acts 19:40

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.

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  • 1 Kgs 1:41 : 41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
  • Matt 26:5 : 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
  • Acts 17:5-8 : 5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. 6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; 7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. 8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
  • Acts 20:1 : 1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
  • Acts 21:31 : 31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
  • Acts 21:38 : 38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

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    38Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.

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