Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 16:34
He set a table before them and rejoiced — Faith makes a man joyful, prudent, liberal.
He set a table before them and rejoiced — Faith makes a man joyful, prudent, liberal.
Verse 34. _HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM_] They were sufficiently exhausted, and needed refreshment; nor had the apostles any such inherent miraculous power as could prevent them from suffering through hun...
HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM - Food. Greek: “he placed a table.” The word “meat” formerly meant “food” of all kinds. AND REJOICED - This was the effect of believing. Religion produces joy. See the notes on...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe ...
IMPRISONMENT OF PAUL AND SILAS. THE PRISON BROKEN. The rulers (Acts 16:19) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called _Strategi, which_ answers to the Roman _Prœ tores._ Philippi was a colony...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. I...
BROUGHT. Greek. _anago._ Same as "loosed", Acts 16:11. SET MEAT. placed. table. Compare Psalms 23:5. REJOICED. See noteon "was glad", Acts 2:26. BELIEVING. App-150. WITH ALL HIS HOUSE. Gree
_he set meat_(Greek, _a table) before them_ He would not leave them a moment in the dungeon, but testify to them, how the dawning of faith had filled him with joy. _and rejoiced, believing in God with...
αὐτοῦ omitted after αἶκον with BCP. _Vulg_. ‘in domum suam.’ 34. ΠΑΡΈΘΗΚΕΝ ΤΡΆΠΕΖΑΝ, _he set meat_ (lit. _a table_) _before them_. He would not let them remain longer in the dungeon, but took means t...
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA. A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE A...
_THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILER IN PHILIPPI ACTS 16:16-40:_ At a place of prayer in Philippi Paul and Silas came across a girl that had a spirit of divination. Her masters made a lot of money from her p...
ΆΝΑΓΑΓΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΑΝΆΓΩ (G321) приводить, ΠΑΡΈΘΗΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G3908) накрывать. Перед каждым гостем был накрыт отдельный стол (Bruce). Тюремщик шел на громад...
AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40 a. A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12. Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in...
See notes on verse 33...
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE, HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM, [ pare...
19 This is the first occasion in which the evangel comes into conflict with the religion of the nations and with the spirit powers back of it. Hitherto the Jews and Judaism opposed the evangel. At Lys...
16:34 house, (g-19) An adverb -- 'rejoiced householdly.'...
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM, AND REJOICED. — Literally, _set a table before them._ The two sufferers may well have needed food. If the tumult had begun, as is probable, as they were going to the _proseucl...
ἀναγαγών τε αὐτοὺς : τε closely connects this second proof of his thankfulness with the first ἀναγ.: “he brought them up into,” R.V.; Blass thinks that the ἀνά means that he brought them up from under...
SALVATION IN THE JAIL Acts 16:25 Some, as we have seen, are converted by the gentle opening of the heart; others amid the convulsions of the storm. The first knowledge of salvation may have reached t...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
The Conversion of the Jailor At midnight, while the other prisoners listened to Paul and Silas singing and praying, a great earthquake shook open all the prison doors and released all those bound in...
_“And leading them into his house he placed a table by them and rejoiced all over the house, believing in God.”_ Here we see that the jailer, having received a glorious old-style jumping conversion, l...
The awakened and panic-stricken jailer, knowing that cruel Roman law will require his life as substitute for the fugitive prisoner, in the absence of Bible light on suicide, and with the noble example...
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. (26) And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and i...
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...
_THE JAILER’S CONVERSION_ ‘And when he had brought them into his house he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.’ Acts 16:34 The jailer was brought near to the uns...
− 34._He rejoiceth that he believed. _The external profession of faith was before commended in the jailer; now the inward fruit thereof is described. When he did lodge the apostles, − (225) and was no...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE,.... After he and his family had been baptized, either in the pool in the prison, or in the river near the city of Philippi: HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM; he sp...
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. Ver. 34. _And rejoiced, believing_] A prick with a pin may and doth many times...
_And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ_ Whom it is our office to preach as the great and only Saviour; and confide wholly in him for salvation; loving, obeying, and living to his glory. As P...
AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE, HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM, AND REJOICED, BELIEVING IN GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE. In the excess of his first terror, the keeper of the prison had not even though...
The conversion of the jailer:...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
NOW WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE, HE SET FOOD BEFORE THEM; AND HE REJOICED, HAVING BELIEVED IN GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD. 1. This verse proves that the household of the jailer did not inc...
"And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God"Up into his house" After being baptized. "As. jailer he was not actin...
25-34 The consolations of God to his suffering servants are neither few nor small. How much more happy are true Christians than their prosperous enemies! As in the dark, so out of the depths, we may...
INTO HIS HOUSE; which was close unto, or a separate part of, the prison, into which they did ascend, being before in a low dungeon. HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM; Paul and Silas had been long fasting, and i...
Acts 16:34 Now G5037 brought G321 (G5631) them G846 into G1519 house G3624 set G3908 food G5132 them...
MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description of P...
ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT LEAD TO ADDITIONS TO THE CHURCH IN PHILIPPI (16:19-34). But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pockets. They did not care about the girl herself, they had...
‘And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.' Furthermore he also brought them into the part of the prison build...
Acts 16:34. AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE. Literally translated, ‘brought them up,' that is, from the court in which they then were, _up_ into his house which was ‘above' the prison cour...
HE BROUGHT THEM UP (αναγαγων). Second aorist active participle of αναγω. It looks as if his house was above the prison. The baptism apparently took place in the pool or tank in which he bathed Paul...
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
AND FELL TREMBLING. He is convinced they are under divine protection! WHAT MUST I DO? Paul's answer to this question shows the jailer knew they preached a new religion. BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS. This...
_Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling._ THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER I. The state of his mind before conversion. 1. He was a careless sinner. This appears not so much from his offi...
_And they spake unto him the Word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house._ HOUSEHOLD SALVATION It sometimes happens that a good man has to go alone to heaven: God’s election has separated him...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:34 REJOICED signifies a deep spiritual joy in the NT (compare Luke 10:21; John 8:56
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:19. THE RULERS, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates (Luke 12:58). Acts 16:20. The MAGISTRATES, στρατηγοί, were the two chief civic authorities (dunmviri) in a Roman colony...
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
1 John 3:18; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 4:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:9;...
Brought [α ν α γ α γ ω ν]. Lit., "brought up [α ν α]." His house would seem to have been above the court of the prison where they were. See on took, verse 33. Believing [π ε π ι σ τ ε υ κ ω ς]. More...
See here. special evidence and sweet fruit of the gaoler's conversion; he brings the apostles, who were the instruments of his conversion, into his house; and having washed their stripes, refreshes th...