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Acts 19:35 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 35. 35And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
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Role in This Section
Opens the town clerk's calming appeal to Ephesus's established religious reputation.
Read It With
- Acts 19:23–19:41
Acts 19:35 opens the town clerk's calming appeal to Ephesus's established religious reputation; within Acts 19:23–19:41, the controlling movement is that Demetrius links the Way to threatened craft income and Artemis's honor, craftsmen create a confused assembly, Jews put Alexander forward, and the town clerk disperses the crowd by pointing to courts and lawful assemblies.
Why It Needs Context
Opens the town clerk's calming appeal to Ephesus's established religious reputation. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 19:23–19:41; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Acts 19:23–19:41 — The Ephesian economy and civic assembly collide with the WaySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 19:23–19:41, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 19:23-19:41
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