Teks -- Acts 17:9 (NET)

17:9 After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Act 17:9 - When they had taken security

When they had taken security ( labontes to hikanon ).

A Greek idiom=Latin satis accipere , to receive the sufficient (bond), usually money for the fulfilment of the judgment. Probably the demand was made of Jason that he see to it that Paul and Silas leave the city not to return. In 1Th 2:17. Paul may refer to this in mentioning his inability to visit these Thessalonians again. The idiom lambanein to hikanon now is found in two inscriptions of the second century a.d. (O. G. I. S. 484, 50 and 629, 101). In Vol. III Oxyrhynchus Papyri no. 294 a.d. 22 the corresponding phrase dounai heikanon ("to give security") appears.

Robertson: Act 17:9 - They let them go

They let them go ( apelusan autous ).

The charge was serious but the proof slim so that the politarchs were glad to be rid of the case.

Vincent: Act 17:9 - Security

Security ( τὸ ἱκανὸν )

See on Luk 7:6. Bail, either personal or by a deposit of money. A law term. They engaged that the public peace should not be violated, and that the authors of the disturbance should leave the city.

JFB: Act 17:5-9 - the Jews . . . moved with envy

Seeing their influence undermined by this stranger.

JFB: Act 17:5-9 - lewd fellows of the baser sort

Better, perhaps, "worthless market people," that is, idle loungers about the market-place, of indifferent character.

JFB: Act 17:5-9 - gathered a company

Rather, "having raised a mob."

JFB: Act 17:5-9 - assaulted the house of Jason

With whom Paul and Silas abode (Act 17:7), one of Paul's kinsmen, apparently (Rom 16:21), and from his name, which was sometimes used as a Greek form of the word Joshua [GROTIUS], probably a Hellenistic Jew.

JFB: Act 17:5-9 - sought to bring them

Jason's lodgers.

JFB: Act 17:9 - And when they had taken security of Jason and of the other

"the others"--probably making them deposit a money pledge that the preachers should not again endanger the public peace.

Clarke: Act 17:9 - Taken security

Taken security - Λαβοντες το ἱκανον, Having taken what was sufficient, or satisfactory. Sufficient for the present, to prove that the apostles were upright, peaceable, and loyal men; and that Jason and his friends were the like, and would be, at any time, forthcoming to answer for their conduct. Perhaps this is the sense of the phrase in the text.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 17:9 - Had taken security

Had taken security either being satisfied with their answer, or having bail for their appearance, if need were; the word only hinting their being satisfied, or contented, as Mar 15:15 .

Gill: Act 17:9 - And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other // they let them go

And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other,.... That is, received satisfaction from them, by the defence which they made for themselves, and the apostles, by the account that they gave of them and of their doctrines; whereby it plainly appeared to the full satisfaction of the magistrates, that their principles had no tendency to move sedition, or to alter the form of their government, or to do anything detrimental to Caesar, as was suggested: the Syriac, and Arabic versions render it, "took sureties"; of them for their good behaviour, and that they would be forthcoming, whenever called for:

they let them go; about their business, to their own houses, and company, and did not inflict any punishment upon them, or commit them to prison.