Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Acts 18:6
And when they opposed themselves - To him and his message.
And blasphemed - See the notes on Acts 13:45.
He shook his raiment - As an expressive act of shaking off the guilt of their condemnation. Compare Acts 13:45. He shook his raiment to show that he was resolved henceforward to have nothing to do with them; perhaps, also, to express the fact that God would soon slake them off, or reject them (Doddridge).
Your blood ... - The guilt of your destruction is your own. You only are the cause of the destruction that is coming upon you. See the notes on Matthew 27:25.
I am clean - I am not to blame for your destruction. I have done my duty. The gospel had been fairly offered and deliberately rejected; and Paul was not to blame for their ruin, which he saw was coming upon them.
I will go ... - See Acts 13:46.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Acts 18:6:
Psalms 117:1
Matthew 10:9-15
Acts 13:45
Acts 20:26
1 Corinthians 1:2
1 Corinthians 2:3
2 Corinthians 6:5
2 Thessalonians 3:2
2 Thessalonians 3:2
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