"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…" — Acts 19:40

Acts 19:40 · KJV

“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.”

— Acts 19:40

Verse 39

But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. {lawful: or, ordinary}

Verse 41

And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

Acts 19 — Context

Wherefore 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. {the law...: or, the court days are kept}

But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. {lawful: or, ordinary}

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.

And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

Cross References

Acts 21:38

Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

Acts 20:1

And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto {him} the disciples, and embraced {them}, and departed for to go into Macedonia.

Matthew 26:5

But they said, Not on the feast {day}, lest there be an uproar among the people.

Acts 21:31

And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

1 Kings 1:41

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?

Acts 17:5-8

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.