“And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.”
When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil — Luke's note of official disturbance (tarassō, to trouble or disturb) signals that the gospel's social disruption now registers with city magistrates. The crowd's response moves beyond mere theological disputation.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:8
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. Acts 17:4 The writer mentions only the sum and substance of the discoursing: he is not given to redundancy, and does not on every occasion report the sermons. But the Jews which believed not (the best texts omit which believed not), moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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