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Verse Acts 22:4. _I PERSECUTED THIS WAY_] Ταυτην την
ὁδον; _This doctrine,_ _the way_ of worshipping God, and
arriving at a state of blessedness. Acts 9:2.
_BINDING AND DELIVERING INTO PRISONS_] Ac...
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AND I PERSECUTED - Acts 8:3.
THIS WAY - Those who were of this mode of worshipping God; that is,
Christians. See the notes on Acts 9:2.
UNTO THE DEATH - Intending to put them to death. He did not pro...
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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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"Men, brethren and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to
you." When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew
language, they gave him still more quietness. So he said, "I am a...
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THIS. Emph.
WAY. See Acts 9:2.
UNTO. as far as.
THE. Omit.
BINDING. Greek. _desmeuo_. Only here and Matthew 23:4.
DELIVERING. Same as "commit" in Acts 8:3.
WOMEN. Compare
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_And I persecuted this way_, &c. On "the Way" as the designation of
the Christian religion, cp. note on Acts 9:2 We are not told of any
Christians who were put to death through Saul's zealous persecut...
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ὋΣ ΤΑΎΤΗΝ ΤῊΝ ὉΔῸΝ ἘΔΊΩΞΑ ἌΧΡΙ
ΘΑΝΆΤΟΥ, _and I persecuted this Way unto the death_. On ἡ
ὁδὸς as the designation of the Christian religion, cf. note on
Acts 9:2. We are not told of any Christians who...
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Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
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_PAUL'S BIRTH, EDUCATION AND PREJUDICES ACTS 22:1-5:_ The term "men,
brethren and fathers" was a term used often among the Jews in Paul's'
day. He was happy to answer the charges of speaking against t...
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ΈΔΙΩΞΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΏΚΩ (G1377)
преследовать, охотиться, гнать,
ΔΕΣΜΕΎΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΕΣΜΕΎΩ (G1195)
связывать, заключать в цепи. Part, образа
действия, объясняет, как он
преследо...
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AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH,— We know that he was
concerned in the death of Stephen: ch. Acts 8:1 and if he was not so
in that of many more, it was not for want of zeal and rage, but mere...
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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 3...
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And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into
prisons both men and women.
And I persecuted this ('the') way unto the death, binding and
delivering into prisons ......
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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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THIS WAY] i.e. Christianity: see Acts 9:2....
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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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AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY. — The speaker obviously uses the current
colloquial term (see Notes on Acts 9:2; Acts 19:23), used by the
disciples as indicating that they had found in Christ the way of
et...
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ταύτην τὴν ὁδὸν, see above Acts 9:2. ἄχρι
θανάτου : sometimes taken to mean not that he prosecuted the
Christians “unto death” (for if this was the meaning the following
participles would sound feeble...
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HOW HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED
Acts 22:1
What a sermon Paul preached! His pulpit, the steps that ascended from
the Temple level to the Castle of Antonia. His audience, the frenzied
crowds who filled the co...
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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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Paul's First Defense
Since his audience was primarily Jewish, Paul addressed them as
"Brethren and fathers" (Acts 2:29; Acts 7:2; Acts 13:26). The defense
he wants them to hear is much like verbal arg...
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_This way. That is, the Christian faith, which now I profess.
(Witham)_...
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Paul now proceeds to vindicate himself by relating his experience,
giving his Cilician nativity and his education in Jerusalem at the
feet of Gamaliel, the champion theologian, his identity with the
p...
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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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4._I persecuted this way. _This is the second point, that he was an
enemy to Christ’s doctrine, and that he was more fervent in
resisting the same than all the rest, until he was pulled back by the...
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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 I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH,.... That is, the Christian
religion, and the professors of it; whom the apostle breathed out
threatenings and slaughter against, haled out of their houses, an...
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And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into
prisons both men and women.
Ver. 4. _See Trapp on "_ Act 9:1 _"_...
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_I am verily a Jew_, &c. This defence answers all that is objected,
Acts 21:28. But he speaks closely and nervously, in a few words,
because the time was short; _born in Tarsus, yet brought up in this...
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THIS WAY; the christian cause....
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PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:1
Concerning Paul's early life and persecution of the Church:...
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AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH, BINDING AND DELIVERING INTO
PRISONS BOTH MEN AND WOMEN,...
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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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I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into
prisons both men and women,
1. Paul gained fame as a persecutor of the church.
2. Many were well aware of his early history, reputatio...
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"And. persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men
and women into prisons" See Acts 9:1 ff; Acts 26:9 ff. His opposition
to Christianity had been as great as theirs. "He recounted ho...
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1-11 The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary
style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early
life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was who...
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Acts 22:4 I G3739 persecuted G1377 (G5656) this G5026 Way G3598 to
G891 death G2288 binding G1195 ...
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“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city,
at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of
the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you al...
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Acts 22:4. AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH, BINDING AND
DELIVERING INTO PRISONS BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. In support of his
assertion that he, too, was once a Jewish ‘zealot,' he reminds them
that...
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AND I
(ος).I WHO
, literally.THIS WAY
(ταυτην την οδον). The very term used for Christianity by
Luke concerning Paul's persecution (Acts 9:2), which see. Here it
"avoids any irritating name for...
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Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I
make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew
tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith),_
Men...
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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 PERSECUTED to THE DEATH. He did this because he thought his loyalty
to God demanded it! THE HIGH PRIEST AND THE WHOLE COUNCIL. A different
man was high priest now, than when Paul had been "deputized...
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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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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 22:4 On Paul’s persecution of the Christians,
see Acts 8:3 and Acts 9:1. THIS WAY. See note on
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 22:1. MEN, BRETHREN AND FATHERS.—Or, _brethren and fathers,_
the use of “men” in English being unnecessary. Compare the
commencement of Stephen’s address to the Sanhedrim (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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1 Corinthians 15:9; 1 Timothy 1:13; Acts 16:17; Acts 18:26; Acts 1
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Way. See on ch. Acts 9:2....
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And persecuted this way — With the same zeal that you do now.
Binding both men and women — How much better was his condition, now
he was bound himself....