ACTS 18:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.”
Then all the Greeks (literally, 'the Greeks,' Hellenes) seized Sosthenes the synagogue leader and beat him in front of the proconsul — It is unclear whether the violence reflects gentile anti-Semitism or a perverse victory celebration by Christian gentiles. Luke's ambiguity preserves the incident's historical integrity without ecclesiastical smoothing.
Church Fathers on Acts 18:17
Then all the Jews took Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat: and Gallio cared for none of these things Acts 18:17: but their beating him he did not take as an insult to himself. So petulant were the Jews. But let us look over again what has been said. (Recapitulation.) And when they heard, Acts 17:32 what great and lofty doctrines, they did not even attend, but jeered at the Resurrection! For the natural man, it says, receives not the…
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