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title: Acts 19:9
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/acts-19-9/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/acts-19-9.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Acts 19:9
testament: NT
section: Acts
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
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# Acts 19:9

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

## JW Usage

Acts 19:9 is another Pauline venue text the Watchtower passes over when arguing for door-to-door ministry. When opposition in the synagogue became hardened, Paul did not start knocking on Ephesian doors. He rented a lecture hall and continued public teaching.

## Protestant Usage

"He withdrew from them and separated the disciples from them, daily giving talks in the lecture hall of Tyrannus" (NWT). Paul's response to synagogue opposition is *not* a shift to residential canvassing. It is a shift from one public venue to another — a rented hall, daily teaching, still destinational. Bible commentators note that Codex Bezae adds the detail that Paul taught there "from the fifth hour to the tenth" (roughly 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the hot middle of the working day when the hall was otherwise idle). Paul books the unused hours, gathers interested hearers, and teaches for two full years (v.10). Again — public, destinational, sustained. Pair Acts 19:9 with Acts 17:17, 18:4, and 19:8 at the door: four verses, four cities, one method. Public teaching in public venues where interested hearers came to him.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Jesus Said 'Do Not Go From House to House'](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/luke10-house-to-house.md) — Luke 10:7 / Acts 5:42 / Acts 20:20 [Practice]