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Verse Acts 22:20. _WHEN THE BLOOD OF THY MARTYR STEPHEN WAS SHED_]
Acts 7:58, Acts 7:58; and Acts 8:1,...
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THE BLOOD OF THY MARTYR STEPHEN WAS SHED - See Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1.
I ALSO WAS STANDING BY - Acts 7:58.
AND CONSENTING UNTO HIS DEATH -...
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CHAPTER 22
_ 1. The Address of the Apostle (Acts 22:1)._
2. The Answer from the Mob, and Paul's Appeal to His Roman citizenship
(Acts 22:22).
What a scene it was! On the stairs, midway between the t...
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PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. The opening of the speech is like that of
Stephen (Acts 7:2). In 2 Corinthians 11:22 Paul attests his full
membership of the Jewish people, and having lived many years in
Pa...
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THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
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"Because I was not able to see because of the glory of that light, I
came into Damascus led by the hand by those who were with me. And
Ananias, a pious man as regards the Law, a man to whose character...
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THY MARTYR STEPHEN. Stephen Thy witness (Greek. _martur._ See Acts
1:8).
SHED. being poured out. Greek. _ekcheo_ as in Acts 2:17; Acts 2:18;
Acts 2:33.
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_thy martyr Stephen_ Better, "Stephen, thy WITNESS." The Greek word
had not yet come to be applied as it afterwards was to those
Christians who _bore witness_to the truth by their death.
_and consent...
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τῇ� omitted with אABE. Not represented in _Vulg_.
20. ΣΤΕΦΆΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ͂ ΜΆΡΤΥΡΌΣ ΣΟΥ, _of Stephen,
thy witness_. The Greek word μάρτυς had not yet come to be
applied, as it afterwards was, to those Chris...
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Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
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_PAUL'S APOSTLESHIP AMONG GENTILES ACTS 22:17-21:_ After his
conversion Paul returned to Jerusalem and to the Temple to pray. In a
vision he was told to leave Jerusalem because the people would not
li...
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ΈΞΕΧΎΝΝΕΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. от_ ΈΚΧΎΝΝΩ (G1632)
выливать, проливать. _Impf._ изображает
развивающееся действие,
ΑΎΤΌΣ (G846) эмфатическое: я сам ΈΦΕΣΤΏΣ
_perf. act. part. от_ ΈΦΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G2186) стоять...
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c.
Paul addresses the Jewish mob. Acts 22:1-21.
Acts 22:1
Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.
Acts 22:2
And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew l...
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See notes on verse 17...
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And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing
by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that
slew him.
And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed...
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40 God acts in marvelous ways. Human opposition works out his purposes
quite as effectively as human help. What better means could be devised
to get all Jerusalem as well as representatives from the d...
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ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE
1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1)
hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (3) the
desecration of the Temple. He answers all these...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 22
PAUL SPEAKS TO THE CROWD, 22:1-21
V1 ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! I will explain what
happened.’
V2 The crowd became even quieter. T...
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WHEN THE BLOOD OF THY MARTYR STEPHEN.... — Better, _thy witness._
The English word is, perhaps, a little too definite and technical, and
fails to remind us, as the Greek does, that the same word had b...
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τοῦ μ. σου : he identifies himself with Stephen, his testimony
like that of the martyr is borne to Christ; on the word see p. 67; the
term is here in a transition stage from “witness” to “martyr,”
_cf...
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SAVED FOR FURTHER SERVICE
Acts 22:17
To the story of his conversion, as given in Acts 9:1, the Apostle here
adds a detailed account of that memorable interview in the Temple,
when he questioned the a...
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Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of
Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the
Gentiles. In that defense the last word he was permitted to utter w...
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In Damascus, a devout, God-fearing man came to Paul, restored his
sight and told him God had appointed him to know his will, see the
righteous one and hear his voice. He further said God planned for h...
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And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing
by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that
(b) slew him.
(b) This is properly spoken, for Steven was m...
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_Of Stephen, thy witness. Or thy martyr, as the Greek word signifies.
(Witham)_...
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Here Paul rehearses his testimony to Jesus of his leadership in his
martyrdom, alleging that the Jews will certainly not receive his
testimony. _“And he said unto me, Go, for I will send you far away...
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I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia,
yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught
according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was...
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The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an
episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to
Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
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He departs therefore to Jerusalem; and when there, he goes to the
house of James, and all the elders assemble. Paul relates to them the
work of God among the Gentiles. They turn to their Judaism, of w...
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AND WHEN THE BLOOD OF THY MARTYR STEPHEN WAS SHED,.... Stephen was a
martyr for Christ, both by confession with his mouth, and by the
effusion of his blood; he was the proto-martyr, or "the first mart...
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And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing
by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that
slew him.
Ver. 20. _When the blood of thy martyr_] An honou...
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_When I was come again to Jerusalem_ From Damascus; and _prayed in the
temple_ By this he shows that he still paid the temple its due honour,
as the house of prayer; _I was in a trance_ Or ecstasy. Pe...
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STEPHEN; chap Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1....
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The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for
those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts
more serious attention. He has been practically convicted by...
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AND WHEN THE BLOOD OF YOUR MARTYR STEPHEN WAS SHED, I ALSO WAS
STANDING BY CONSENTING TO HIS DEATH, AND GUARDING THE CLOTHES OF THOSE
WHO WERE KILLING HIM. '
1. Paul now reminds Jesus of his involvem...
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Acts 22:18-21 Paul now reveals that the Lord had predicted two things.
First, that the Jews would persecute him (just like they were doing on
this day) and secondly that preaching to the Gentiles the...
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12-21 The apostle goes on to relate how he was confirmed in the
change he had made. The Lord having chosen the sinner, that he should
know his will, he is humbled, enlightened, and brought to the
kno...
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MARTYR is a Greek word, that signifies a witness; and is here, and
since by the ecclesiastical writers, appropriated unto such as suffer
death for the testimony they give to the truths of God, or doct...
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Acts 22:20 And G2532 when G3753 blood G129 Your G4675 martyr G3144
Stephen G4736 shed G1632 (G5712) I...
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“And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and
beat in every synagogue those who believed on you, and when the blood
of Stephen your witness was shed, I also was standing by, and
conse...
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Acts 22:20. AND WHEN THE BLOOD OF THY MARTYR STEPHEN WAS BEING SHED, I
ALSO WAS STANDING BY, AND CONSENTING UNTO HIS DEATH. It is hardly
likely that the sense in which we understand the word ‘martyr,'...
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WAS SHED
(εξεχυννετο). Imperfect passive of εκχυννω (see on
Matthew 23:35), was being shed.WITNESS
(μαρτυρος). And "martyr" also as in Revelation 2:13;
Revelation 17:6. Transition state for the wo...
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CONTENTS: Paul's defense before the multitude. Recounts his
conversion.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, chief captain.
CONCLUSION: God's servants who are set upon with rage and fury because
o...
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Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers;_ that is, men of mixed nations
assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help.
_Brethren,_ religious persons of the stock of Israel. _Fat...
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I WENT BACK TO JERUSALEM. This was three years after he became a
Christian (Galatians 1:17-18). He goes on to show that God himself had
sent him to the Gentiles. I HAD A VISION. Compare Acts 10:10. So...
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_And it came to pass that … while I prayed in the temple, I was in a
trance._
A COMMON THING REACHING THE WONDERFUL
Here is--
I. A common thing--a man praying. Prayer is an instinct of the soul.
Dan...
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_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence._
PAUL’S DEFENCE
1. Whether we consider the man, the circumstances, the speech, or the
effect produced, this address is worthy to be ranked among the...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 22:17. Begins the third portion of the defence. WHEN I WAS COME
AGAIN TO JERUSALEM.—This visit to the Metropolis, which occurred at
least three years after his conversion (Acts...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 22:1
_Brethren _for _men, brethren, _A.V. (Acts 7:2, note); the for my,
A.V.; _now make _for _make now, _A.V. THE DEFENSE;
ἀπολογία This is the technical word in classical Greek for...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the twenty-second chapter of Acts.
Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic
moment. Paul in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit...
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Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Luke 11:48; Revelation 17:6; Revelation 2:13;...
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Martyr. Better, as Rev., witness. The special sense of the word was
probably not in use at this time. See on ch. Acts 1:22. It occurs,
however, in Revelation 2:13; Revelation 17:6.
Standing by. See o...
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When the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by
— A real convert still retains the remembrance of his former sins.
He confesses thorn and is humbled for them, all the days of his...