Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers—literally, "the politarchs"; the very name given to the magistrates of Thessalonica in an inscription on a still remaining arch of the city—so minute is the accuracy of this history.
crying, These that have turned the world upside down—(See on Acts 16:20).
the Jews . . . moved with envy—seeing their influence undermined by this stranger.
lewd fellows of the baser sort—better, perhaps, "worthless market people," that is, idle loungers about the market-place, of indifferent character.
gathered a company—rather, "having raised a mob."
assaulted the house of Jason—with whom Paul and Silas abode (Acts 17:7), one of Paul's kinsmen, apparently (Romans 16:21), and from his name, which was sometimes used as a Greek form of the word Joshua [GROTIUS], probably a Hellenistic Jew.
sought to bring them—Jason's lodgers.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 17:6:
Amos 7:10
Acts 4:31-37
Acts 16:20
Acts 16:21
Acts 17:1
Acts 19:29
1 Thessalonians 1:6
1 Thessalonians 2:2
1 Thessalonians 2:14
2 Thessalonians 1:4
2 Thessalonians 2:4
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