Acts 17:12 - Exposition

Many … therefore for therefore many, A.V.; the Greek women of honor able estate for honorable women which were Greeks, A.V. Honorable ; εὐσχημόνων , as Acts 13:50 , where it is coupled with τοὺς πρώτους τῆς πόλεως . Meyer thinks that it is meant that the men were Greeks too; but this is uncertain. The only Beraean convert whose name we know is Sopater ( Acts 20:4 ), or Sosipater, who is probably the same ( Romans 16:21 ). If so, he was apparently a Jew, whose Hebrew name may have been Abishua.