Bible Strands
Acts 19:10
This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Luke narrates this moment during Paul’s Ephesian ministry, immediately after Paul relocates his daily teaching to the lecture hall of Tyrannus following synagogue opposition.
The words — τοῦτο (touto) means "this" and ἐγένετο (egeneto) means "continued," establishing the timeframe of the relocated instruction. The conjunction ὥστε (hōste) translates as "so that," marking the intended outcome of that duration.
The thread — The extended timeline of Paul’s regional work is cross-referenced in Acts 20:31, 2 Timothy 1:15, and Acts 16:6.
Why it lands — The text states that a two-year period of daily teaching caused everyone in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, to hear the word of the Lord. It asks the reader to acknowledge that prolonged, public instruction is the direct mechanism for regional exposure to the message.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Cross-references
- Acts 20:31 Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
- 2 Timothy 1:15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
- Acts 16:6 After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.
- Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
- Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- Romans 10:18 But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:22 Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 3:11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- Acts 18:4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.