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Andκαὶsayingλέγοντεςthese things,ταῦταthey barelyμόλιςrestrainedκατέπαυσανthe crowdsτοὺς ὄχλουςfromτοῦoffering sacrificeθύεινto them.αὐτοῖς
Acts 14:18
Study it in the app“And saying these things, they barely restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them.”
With the Greek beneath
Acts 14:18, word by word
- sayingλέγοντεςlegontes
say
To express something in words to others.
Where else “legontes” appears- they barelyμόλιςmolis
hardly, with difficulty
Hardly, scarcely, with difficulty.
Where else “molis” appears- restrainedκατέπαυσανkatepausan
restrain
To hold someone back from doing something.
Where else “katepausan” appears- the crowdsὄχλουςochlous
crowd
A lot of people together.
Where else “ochlous” appears- offering sacrificeθύεινthyein
sacrifice
To slaughter an animal to offer it to God or to a god.
Where else “thyein” appears
The context
17and yet he did not leave himself without testimony, doing good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
18 · This verse (above)
19But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged him outside the city, thinking that he had died.
To study Acts 14 in a group
1. What it says
In Lystra, what does Paul do for the man who had never walked, and how does the crowd react? (vv. 8-13)
2. What it means
Why do Paul and Barnabas refuse to be treated as gods, and what do they say about themselves? (vv. 14-15)
3. How I live it
Paul and Barnabas encouraged the disciples to stay firm through hardship (v. 22). How can you encourage someone going through a hard time?