Acts 19:9
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.”
μαθητής
Not just a follower — a learner who becomes like the teacher. The last command Jesus gives is not go and convert — it is go and make mathetes. People who learn from Me, walk like Me, think like Me, love like Me. The mission is not decisions. It is transformation.
ὁδός
Way
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ὁδός
Not a way among many ways. The way. In the ancient world, hodos meant a road that had been walked and proven. Jesus is not giving directions — He is saying: I am the road itself. Walk in Me and you will arrive.
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σκληρύνω
were hardened
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σκληρύνω
To harden, to make callous. Skleruno. Harden not your hearts as in the day of testing. Hardening is a gradual process. Repeated rejection of God's voice slowly closes the heart.
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ἡμέρα
day
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ἡμέρα
Day. Hemera. This is the day the LORD has made. Every day is a gift from God. The right response to any day is rejoicing in the One who gave it.
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σχολή
lecture hall
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σχολή
properly, loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure, i.e. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment)
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διαλέγομαι
reasoning
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διαλέγομαι
to say thoroughly, i.e. discuss (in argument or exhortation)
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πλῆθος
multitude,
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πλῆθος
a fulness, i.e. a large number, throng, populace
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Τύραννος
of Tyrannus
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Τύραννος
a "tyrant"; Tyrannus, an Ephesian
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τὶς
a certain.
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τὶς
some or any person or object
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κακολογέω
speaking evil of
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κακολογέω
to revile
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