Meanwhile the assembly was in turmoil. Some were shouting one thing and some another, and most of them did not even know why they were there.
Paul lays vast designs for God, making his influence widely diffusive. He means to visit the churches he planted, rectify what is amiss, encourage what is good, then see the Christians at Rome, not for curiosity, but because their company is the city's true glory.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 19:21-41
Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against,.... This officer intimates, in order to quiet the mob, and make them easy, that these things were so certain, and well known, that nobody would pretend to contradict them, and therefore they must be mistaken in the men, whom they had hurried into the theatre; it was impossible that they, or any men, should be capable...
Verse 32. Some therefore cried one thing, etc. This is an admirable description of a mob, assembled for what purpose they knew not; but agitated by passions, and strifes, and tumults. And the more part knew not, etc. The greater part did not know. They had been drawn together by the noise and excitement; but a small part would know the real cause of the commotion.