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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Acts 20:12

Alive. This accident, which gave occasion to a great miracle, was ordained by the particular providence of God, in order to confirm the preaching of St. Paul, and to fix more deeply in the hearts of his disciples the words of their dear Master, who was just going to leave them. Admire likewise the apostle's solicitude for his neighbour's salvation, in prolonging his instructions through the whole night, which preceded his departure. (Denis the Carthusian)

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    ACTS 20:12 Instead of h;gagon de. to.n pai/da zw/nta Dgr reads avspazome,nwn auvtw/n h;gagen to.n neani,skon zw/nta (“And as they were saying farewell, he [Paul] brought the young man alive”). In the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED - By the fact that he was alive; perhaps also strengthened by the evidence that a miracle had been performed....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 __ 1. Paul in Macedonia (Acts 20:1). 2. His abode in Greece, the visit to Troas and what transpired there (Acts 20:3). 3. The journey from Troas to Miletus (Acts 20:13). 4. The farewell...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    STORY OF EUTYCHUS. Paul speaks of the first day of the week in 1 Corinthians 16:2, but not of a breaking of bread on that day, which appears here as an established usage (_cf. Acts 24:2_). It is Paul'...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    On the first day of the week, when we had gathered together to break bread, Paul, who was about to leave on the next day, spoke to them, and he prolonged his talk until midnight. There were many lamps...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YOUNG MAN. Greek. _pais._ App-108. Not the same as Acts 20:9. A LITTLE. moderately. Greek. _metrios._ Only here. Figure of speech _Tapeinosis._ App-6. COMFORTED. Greek. _parakaleo._ App-134. See Act...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And they brought the young man alive_ Here is a different noun, and the _Rev. Ver._rightly gives "the lad." It would seem as though those who had had the care of him brought him, before the congregat...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἬΓΑΓΟΝ ΔΈ ΤῸΝ ΠΑΙ͂ΔΑ ΖΩ͂ΝΤΑ, _and they brought the lad alive_. It would seem as though those who had had the care of him brought him, before the congregation broke up, perhaps even before the Apostle’...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    PAUL PREACHES AT TROAS. EUTYCHUS IS RESTORED TO LIFE...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _PAUL'S LAST VISIT TO TROAS ACTS 20:7-12:_ At Troas Paul and his companions came together with the church to break bread. As the disciples were gathered Paul preached to them until midnight because he...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΉΓΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΓ (G71) вести. ΖΏΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить. _Adj. part._ без артикля подчеркивает характер или качество, ΠΑΡΕΚΛΉΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass._, _см._ Acts 20:1...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

    12. Recurring again to the incident concerning Eutychus, in order to state more particularly the gratification which the brethren felt at his recovery, Luke here remarks: (12) "_And they brought the y...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted. AND THEY BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN ALIVE. There is a manifestly designed contrast between the statement 'taken up dead' (Acts 20:...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    38 After showing them that the men they had led to the theater were not guilty of any overt act against the temple or goddess he reminds them that there are legal means of redress for any wrong which...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Troas. 7. The first clear reference to the keeping of the Lord's Day, with which may be compared 1 Corinthians 16:2. The expression 'Lord's Day' first occurs Revelation 1:10. THE DISCIPLES] RV 'we,' i...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἤγαγον : the subject must be supplied; probably those who had attended to the boy, and who, now that he was sufficiently recovered, brought him back to the room. Rendall thinks that the expression mea...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A MESSENGER OF TRUTH AND LIFE Acts 20:1 The Second Epistle to the Corinthians should be read with the introductory verses of this chapter, as it reveals the Apostle's inner mind at this time. He seem...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Restful and mastered by Christ, Paul was yet restless and resistless in devotion to the enterprise of his Lord. These facts are evident throughout this chapter. We follow him in rapid movements, alway...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Paul's Stay In Troas Luke's seemingly casual comment that Paul and his company stayed seven days in Troas actually serves to enlighten us as to the custom of worship in New Testament times. They came...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. (8) And there were...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But let us return to the history of Paul. After the uproar has ceased he sends for the disciples, embraces them, and departs for Macedonia; he visits that whole country, and comes into Greece. The beg...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN ALIVE,.... Up into the upper room, and presented him alive to the disciples: AND WERE NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED; that is, the disciples, at the sight of the young man, who...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted. Ver. 12. _And were not a little comforted_] Not so much for the young man's recovery, as for the love of God sealed up unto them...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND THEY BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN ALIVE, AND WERE NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED. Paul and his companions from the European congregations, including Luke, celebrated the Passover in Philippi. After the festival...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Paul at Troas:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Finally Paul follows Timothy and Erastus to Macedonia, leaving a field of labor that had been most fruitful. How long he spent in Philippi, Thessalonica and Berea we are not told, but he gave them muc...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    AND THEY BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN IN ALIVE, AND THEY WERE NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED. 1. They brought the young man in ALIVE. He was dead, now he is alive. 2. The church is encouraged and comforted....

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-12 Though the disciples read, and meditated, and prayed, and sung apart, and thereby kept up communion with God, yet they came together to worship God, and so kept up their communion with one anoth...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    They rejoiced not only that the young man was restored to life, but that by this means the gospel was attested to, and many confirmed in the belief of it....

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    12. Recurring again to the incident concerning Eutychus, in order to state more particularly the gratification which the brethren felt at his recovery, Luke here remarks: (12) "_ And they brought the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 20:12 And G1161 brought G71 (G5627) man G3816 alive G2198 (G5723) and G2532 were G3870 not...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And they brought the lad alive, and were not a little comforted.' And they brought the young man up with them, a living witness to God's power to raise the dead, and received great comfort from what...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM (20:3-21:16). As we read this section of Acts some of it may seem a little pointless and repetitive. But we must recognise in it what Luke is doing. One purpose that he has in...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Acts 20:12. AND THEY BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN ALIVE, AND WERE NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED. As in the case of the little daughter of Jairus, when the Lord commanded that something should be given to her to eat...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THEY BROUGHT THE LAD ALIVE (ηγαγον τον παιδα ζωντα). Second aorist active indicative of αγω. Evidently the special friends of the lad who now either brought him back to the room or (Rendall) took h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Paul goes to Macedonia and Greece. His visits at Troas, Miletus. Paul's conference with the Ephesian elders. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Paul, Sopater, Aristarchus, Secundus, Gaius, Tim...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Acts 20:4. _There accompanied him Sopater of Berea,_ the son of Pyrrhus, according to the Vulgate. He is called by Paul, Sosipater. Romans 16:21. _Aristarchus,_ who accompanied him to Rome, and _Secun...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And they brought the young man alive and were not a little comforted._ YOUNG MEN AND THE CHURCH I. Young men need to be brought to life. 1. “Ye must be born again” applies to them as to all. 2. Y...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    …TROAS, WHERE WE ABODE SEVEN DAYS_._ PAUL AT TROAS I. The “first day of the week” appears to have been the usual period of assembly, and no doubt was selected and consecrated by apostolical authorit...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for Macedonia._ READING BETWEEN THE LINES There does not seem to be much in this section of the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 20:7. THE FIRST day OF THE WEEK.—Lit., _the first of the Sabbath_, as in 1 Corinthians 16:2, meaning not on one of the Sabbaths or Jewish festivals, but on the first day of the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ACTS 20:1 _Having sent for_ …_ and exhorted _for _called unto him, _A.V. and T.R.; _took leave of them, and departed _for _and embraced them, and departed, _A.V. DEPARTED FOR TO GO INTO MA...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Last week we left Paul in Ephesus, in the midst of a near riot in town, as Demetrius the silversmith got together his companions in trade and pointed out how the preaching of Paul was about to put the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And they brought the young man alive — But alas! How many of those who have allowed themselves to sleep under sermons, or as it were to dream awake, have slept the sleep of eternal death, and fallen t...

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