29. the Jews departed, and had great--"much"
reasoning among themselves--"This verse is wanting in many manuscripts
[and omitted by several recent editors], but certainly without reason.
Probably the words were regarded as superfluous, as they seem to tell us
what we were told before, that Paul "departed" (see
Ac 28:25).
But in
Ac 28:25
it is the breaking off of the discourse that is meant, here the final
departure from the house"
[OLSHAUSEN].
JFB.
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