Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 19:11
See notes on verse 8
See notes on verse 8
Verse Acts 19:11. _GOD WROUGHT SPECIAL MIRACLES_] Δυναμεις τε ου τας τυχαυσας, Miracles of no _ordinary_ kind, i.e. extraordinary miracles....
SPECIAL MIRACLES - Miracles that were remarkable; that were not common, or that were very unusual (οὐ τὰς τυχών ou tas tuchōn). This expression is Classical Greek. Thus, Longinus says of Moses tha...
CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The second visit of Paul to Ephesus. The twelve disciples of John (Acts 19:1)._ 2. The Apostle's continued labors. The separation of the disciples. The Province Asia evangelized (Act...
MIRACLES, EXORCISMS, BURNING OF BOOKS OF MAGIC. Peter's shadow cured the sick (Acts 5:15); Paul's minor articles of clothing do the same, according to the widespread belief of antiquity in the indirec...
IN EPHESUS (Acts 19:1-7) Acts 19:1-41 is mainly concerned with Paul's work in Ephesus. He stayed longer there than anywhere else, almost three years. (i) Ephesus (G2181) was the market of Asia Minor....
He came into the synagogue and for three months he spoke with boldness, debating and persuading people about the things connected with the kingdom of God. When some made themselves difficult and would...
GOD. App-98. WROUGHT. was doing. SPECIAL. Literally no (Greek. _ou._ App-105) chance, i.e. no ordinary. Greek. _tunchano =_ to happen. MIRACLES. Greek. _dunamis._ See App-176. BY. through. Greek....
_And God wrought special miracles_[Gr. powers] _by the hands of Paul_ The language of the historian is noteworthy. God works, Paul is the instrument. (Cp. The mighty hand of Moses, Deuteronomy 34:12.)...
ΔΥΝΆΜΕΙΣ ΤΕ ΟΥ̓ ΤᾺΣ ΤΥΧΟΎΣΑΣ Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ἘΠΟΊΕΙ ΔΙᾺ ΤΩ͂Ν ΧΕΙΡΩ͂Ν ΠΑΎΛΟΥ, _and God wrought special_ (or _no common_) _powers by the hands of Paul_. The language of the historian is noteworthy. God works, Pa...
PAUL PREACHES TO THE JEWS FIRST AND AFTERWARDS TO THE GENTILES. THE WORD OF GOD PREVAILS MIGHTILY...
_BOOKS ABOUT WITCHCRAFT WERE BURNED ACTS 19:11-20:_ God blessed Paul with the power to work great miracles. Many sick people were healed and evil sprits were cast out. Some vagabond Jews took it upon...
ΤΥΧΟΎΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΤΥΓΧΆΝΩ (G5177) происходить, случаться. Здесь это слово означает нечто необычное, экстраординарное (AS). Слово означает нечто экстраординарное (Bruce), ΈΠΟΊΕΙ _im...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Special Study PAUL'S POWER TO GIVE CHARISMATIC POWER (Acts 19:1-41) A. There is much ambiguous, scripturally-imprecise and confusing exegesis of Acts 19:1-7 being done today. 1....
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: AND GOD WROUGHT SPECIAL MIRACLES, [ dunameis (G1411) ou (G3756) tas (G3588) tuchousas ...
26 Apollos' ignorance of the ministry of the Lord and His twelve apostles made it easy for him to receive the truth proclaimed through Paul, so that he became a great help to the saints in Corinth as...
EPHESUS 1-41. Paul at Ephesus. Opposition of the manufacturers of idols. St. Paul, leaving Antioch in S. Galatia (see Acts 18:23), approached Ephesus not by the usual level route leading through Colos...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 PAUL IN EPHESUS, 19:1-10 V1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was travelling. He travelled through the *province on the higher road. He arr...
AND GOD WROUGHT SPECIAL MIRACLES BY THE HANDS OF PAUL. — The Greek phrase is negative: _no common works of power_ — not such as one might meet with any day. (See Note on Acts 28:2, where the same phra...
οὐ τὰς τυχ., _cf._ Acts 28:2, the phrase is peculiar to St. Luke, “not the ordinary,” _i.e._, extraordinary, with which the deeds of the Jewish exorcists could not be compared, see Klostermann, _Vindi...
THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING IN EPHESUS Acts 19:1 Paul had planted good seed at Corinth, and Apollos, in turn, had watered it, 1 Corinthians 3:6. Large numbers became his devoted followers. This, however,...
The result of the work of Apollos was manifest when Paul reached Ephesus. There he found a company of sincere disciples to Jesus as He had been revealed by John. To them Paul declared the truth in its...
Magnifying Jesus' Name God caused some great miracles to be worked through Paul. Even pieces of cloth, like a handkerchief or apron, which had touched his body could be placed on the body of the sick...
We see divine healing became an exceedingly prominent auxiliary of the spiritual work during the Pauline revival at Ephesus, so that diseases were removed and demons exorcised by the mere application...
And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. (9) But when divers were hardened, and believed not,...
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...
_MIRACLES AT EPHESUS_ ‘And God wrought special miracles by the hand of Paul.’ Acts 19:11 There was special reason in Ephesus for the performance of miracles. The city abounded in magicians and sorc...
− 11._No small miracles. _He calleth miracles _virtutes _or _powers, _after the common custom of the Scripture, which were testimonies of the extraordinary power of God. And showeth that Paul’s apostl...
From Verse 24 of Chapter 18 to Verse 7 of Chapter 19 we have a kind of summary of the progress made by the doctrine of Christ, and of the power that accompanied it. Apollos knew only of the teaching o...
AND GOD WROUGHT SPECIAL MIRACLES BY THE HANDS OF PAUL. For the confirmation of the doctrine which he preached, and of his mission, as an apostle; and these were not any sort of miracles, common and vu...
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: Ver. 11. _And God wrought special miracles_] _Virtutes non vulgares, _ not common power, yet ordinary in the infancy of the Church, but now not...
_And God_ To add the greater efficacy and success to this important doctrine; _wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul_ Who, as he abode longer at Ephesus than at any other city we read of, so h...
AND GOD WROUGHT SPECIAL MIRACLES BY THE HANDS OF PAUL,...
The success of the Gospel:...
Paul returned to Ephesus, as he had promised. Of course there was an assembly there already, as chapter 18:27 intimates; but he found certain disciples who, at his questioning, tell him they had not e...
NOW GOD WORKED UNUSUAL MIRACLES BY THE HANDS OF PAUL, 1. Through Paul, many miracles were done. 2. Special or unusual - refers to the fact that the miracles Paul was doing were unique and were beyon...
"And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul"Special" "Extraordinary" (Gspd). "Miracles of an unusual kind" (NEB). "Lit., not usual or common" (Vincent p. 552). While miracles are extraordin...
8-12 When arguments and persuasions only harden men in unbelief and blasphemy, we must separate ourselves and others from such unholy company. God was pleased to confirm the teaching of these holy men...
SPECIAL MIRACLES; not common or ordinary things, or such as might happen by chance. BY THE HANDS OF PAUL; as ACTS 5:12; by his means and ministry....
Acts 19:11 Now G5037 God G2316 worked G4160 (G5707) unusual G3756 G5177 (G5631) miracles G1411 by...
‘And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul, (in so much that to the sick were carried away from his body cloths or aprons), and the evil spirits went out.' It was a period also of great si...
PAUL'S CONTINUING MINISTRY IN EPHESUS (19:8-20). Meanwhile we are reminded that Paul's' ministry continues in Ephesus in the proclamation of the Kingly Rule of God (compare Acts 1:3; Acts 8:12; Acts 1...
Acts 19:11. AND GOD WROUGHT SPECIAL MIRACLES BY THE HANDS OF PAUL ‘Special,' uncommon, extraordinary, because they were performed without the personal agency and not in the presence of the apostle. A...
SPECIAL MIRACLES (δυναμεις ου τας τυχουσας). "Powers not the ones that happen by chance," "not the ordinary ones," litotes for "the extraordinary." All "miracles" or "powers" (δυναμεις) are supernat...
CONTENTS: Paul at Ephesus. Disciples of John the Baptist become Christians. Paul in the synagogue and in the school of Tyrannus. Paul's miracles. Uproar of the silversmiths. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 19:1. _Paul came to Ephesus,_ a city of Ionia, built by the Amezones. Its temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the world; but Pompey plundered it of all its riches. This city is now in...
_And he welt into the synagogue._ PAUL’S MINISTRY AT EPHESUS I. Wonderful preaching. 1. Manner of the preaching. (1) It was bold (Act 4:31; 2 Corinthians 7:4; Philippians 1:14). (2) It was logical...
_While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul … came to Ephesus._ --Ephesus was the third capital and starting point of Christianity At Jerusalem Christianity was born in the cradle of Judaism; Antioch had been...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:9. BELIEVED NOT might also be rendered _mere disobedient_. THE WAY.—See on Acts 9:2. TYRANNUS.—Otherwise unknown. Hardly the possessor of a private synagogue (Meyer); may ha...
EXPOSITION ACTS 19:1 _Country _for _coasts, _A.V.; _found _for _finding, _A.V. and T.R. THE UPPER COUNTRY (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through which St. Paul...
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth [watering what Paul had planted], Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus; and there he found certain disciples [that no dou...
Acts 14:3; Acts 15:12; Acts 16:18; Acts 5:12; Galatians 3:5;...
Special [ο υ τ α ς τ υ χ ο υ σ α ς]. A peculiar expression. Lit., not usual or common, such as one might fall in with frequently....
Special miracles — Wrought in a very uncommon manner....