Acts 16:19 New English Translation
19 But when her owners[a] saw their hope of profit[b] was gone, they seized[c] Paul and Silas and dragged[d] them into the marketplace[e] before the authorities.
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- Acts 16:19 tn Or “masters.”
- Acts 16:19 tn On this use of ἐργασία (ergasia), see BDAG 390 s.v. 4. It is often the case that destructive practices and commerce are closely tied together.
- Acts 16:19 tn Grk “was gone, seizing.” The participle ἐπιλαβόμενοι (epilabomenoi) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
- Acts 16:19 tn On the term ἕλκω (helkō) see BDAG 318 s.v. 1.
- Acts 16:19 sn The marketplace (Greek agora) was not only a place of trade and commerce in the first century Greco-Roman world. It was a place of discussion and dialogue (the “public square”), a place of judgment (courts held session there), a place for idle people and those seeking work, and a place for children to play.
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