Act 17:5 | JFB | STEP | 5-9. 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 ( ), one of Paul's kinsmen, apparently ( ), 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

Acts 17:5

5-9. 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 (Ac 17:7), one of Paul's kinsmen, apparently (Ro 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.