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Acts 18:15 KJV
Acts · chapter 18 · verse 15
But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.Acts 18:15 · King James Version
Acts 18:15 in context
13Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
14And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
15But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
16And he drave them from the judgment seat.
17Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- questionzētēmaa question, debate, about the lawG2213 →
- wordslogosof speech, a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea, what someone…G3056 →
- namesonomaname univ. of proper names, the name is used for everything which the name covers…G3686 →
- judgekritēsone who passes or arrogates to himself, judgment on anything, an arbiter, of a Roman…G2923 →
- lawnomosanything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command, of any law…G3551 →
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We have here an account of some disturbance given to Paul and his friends at Corinth, but no great harm done, nor much hindrance given to the work of Christ there. I. Paul is accused by the Jews before the Roman governor, Act 18:12, Act 18:13. The governor was Gallio, deputy of Achaia, that is, proconsul;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-17