So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”
The Pharisees, who had mingled with the crowd, turn to one another and take out their frustrations upon one another, but they unwittingly express a prophecy in their ranting exaggeration: the whole world will indeed go after Jesus (Acts 17:6). They are concerned about a few Jews going over to Jesus’ side and following Him, but He was even then beginning to conquer the world!
Acts 17:6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting: “These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here,