Acts 14:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ And [even though] they said these things, it was difficult to restrain the crowds from offering [animal] sacrifices to them.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Even in [the light of] these words they with difficulty prevented the people from offering sacrifice to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And with these sayings scarce restrained they the multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Even with these words, they barely kept the crowds from sacrificing to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Now certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived there. And having persuaded the crowd, they stoned Paul and dragged him outside of the city, thinking him to be dead.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Now there came thither certain Jews from Antioch, and Iconium: and persuading the multitude, and stoning Paul, drew him out of the city, thinking him to be dead.

Acts 14:18 Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For these people’s minds are dull, and their ears have difficulty hearing, and they have shut their eyes. For if this were not the case, they would perceive what they see with their eyes, and comprehend what they hear with their ears, and understand with their minds and would turn [back to God] again so I would heal them [from their sins].’

John 6:15

So, [when] Jesus knew that the people were about to come and forcibly take Him and make Him [their] king, He left there again and went to the high plateau [to be] alone [i.e., to pray. See Mark 6:46].

Acts 14:17

and yet He did not leave them without evidence about Himself. He gave you good [things], brought rain from the sky, [provided] fruitful harvests and filled [your bodies] with food and your hearts with joy.”

Acts 14:19

But Jews came to [Lystra] from Antioch [in Pisidia] and Iconium. When they persuaded the crowds [to reject Paul’s message] they stoned him and dragged him out of town, assuming he was dead.