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Some therefore cried one thing and some another (alloi men oun allo tōi ekrazon). This classical use of allos allo (Robertson, Grammar, p. 747) appears also in Act 2:12; Act 21:34. Literally, “others cried another thing.” The imperfect shows the repetition (kept on crying) and confusion which is also distinctly stated.
For the assembly was in confusion (ān gar hā ekklāsia sunkechumenā). The reason for the previous statement. Periphrastic past perfect passive of sugcheō, sugchunō unnō, to pour together, to commingle as in Act 19:29(sugchuseōs). It was not an “assembly” (ekklāsia, ek, kaleō, to call out), but a wholly irregular, disorganized mob in a state (perfect tense) of confusion. There was “a lawful assembly” (Act 19:39), but this mob was not one. Luke shows his contempt for this mob (Furneaux).
Had come together (sunelālutheisan). Past perfect active of sunerchomai. It was an assembly only in one sense. For some reason Demetrius who was responsible for the mob preferred now to keep in the background, though he was known to be the ring-leader of the gathering (Act 19:38). It was just a mob that shouted because others did.