And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
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Gill's Exposition
And when they opposed themselves,.... To the truth, and contradicted themselves in many instances, and their own prophecies; or those books which they themselves allowed to be the oracles of God, and…
Barnes' Notes
And when they opposed themselves - To him and his message. And blasphemed - See the notes on Act 13:45. He shook his raiment - As an expressive act of shaking off the guilt of their condemnation.…
Adam Clarke
When they opposed - Αντιτασσομενων, Systematically opposing, putting themselves in warlike order against him: so the word implies.
And blasphemed - This is precisely the way in which they still act.…
We do not find that Paul was much persecuted at Athens, nor that he was driven thence by any ill usage, as he was from those places where the Jews had or could make any interest; but this reception at…
Cambridge Bible
opposed themselves The word implies very strong opposition, as of a force drawn up in battle array. It was an organized opposition.
and blasphemed The same word is used in 2Pe 2:2, "The way of truth…
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