Acts 21:16

Acts 21:16

I. This discipleship of Mnason commenced with the freshness of his youth. The epithet "old" does not, I think, refer so much to the man as the disciple. I do not think it tells us about the number of his years, so much as about the number of the years which he had lived as a servant of the Saviour. His birthplace was Cyprus, one of the wickedest places in all the world. To have been a disciple there was no child's play. In that place, of all others, he had witnessed a good profession before many witnesses, presenting himself body, soul, and spirit, a living sacrifice to God.

II. This discipleship of his survived all the temptations of his manhood.

III. This discipleship was held in reputation in his old age.

W. Brock, Penny Pulpit,No. 582, new series.

References: Acts 21:16. Homiletic Magazine,vol. x., p. 276. Acts 21:17. H. W. Beecher, Christian World Pulpit,vol. iii., p. 19. Acts 21:23. Ibid.,vol. xiv., p. 181.Acts 21:28. Expositor,1st series, vol. ix., No. 377. Acts 21:39. W. Braden, Christian World Pulpit,vol. x., p. 369.