And they all laid hold on for then all the Greeks took, A.V. and T.R.; ruler for chief ruler, A.V., as Acts 18:8. The R.T. has far more manuscript support than either the T.R. or another reading, which has "Jews" instead of "Greeks."
All means all the crowd of bystanders and lookers-on, mostly, no doubt, Greeks. The Jews, always unpopular, would be sure to have the Corinthian rabble against them as soon as the proconsul drove them from the judgment seat.
Sosthenes. There is no probability whatever that he is the same person as the Sosthenes of 1 Corinthians 1:1. The name was very common. He appears to have succeeded Crispus as ruler of the synagogue, and would be likely, therefore, to be especially hostile to Paul.