Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 19:2
See notes on verse 1
See notes on verse 1
Verse Acts 19:2. _HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST_] It is likely that these were Asiatic Jews, who, having been at Jerusalem about twenty-six years before this, had heard the preaching of John, and r...
HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT? - Have ye received the extraordinary effusions and miraculous influences of the Holy Spirit? Paul would not doubt that, if they had “believed,” they had received the...
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...
OTHER FOLLOWERS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST AT EPHESUS. Paul's return to Ephesus, promised in Acts 18:21, is made a part of this anecdote. His movements were not fully known, as we saw in Acts 18:21. [101] Th...
It happened that when Apollos was in Corinth Paul went through the upper districts and came to Ephesus and found certain disciples there. He said to them, "When you believed, did you receive the Holy...
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....
HAVE YE RECEIVED. Literally If (App-118. a) ye received. THE HOLY GHOST. Greek. _pneuma hagion._ No art. App-101. SINCE YE BELIEVED. having believed. App-150. There is no note of time, or sequence,...
AND _he said unto them_ The different reading in the last verse renders a conjunction needful here, and this the oldest MSS. have. DID YE RECEIVE the _Holy Ghost_ WHEN YE BELIEVED?] The two verbs in...
εἶπον omitted with אABDE. _Vulg_. has ‘dixerunt.’ 2. ΕἸ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ἍΓΙΟΝ ἘΛΑΒΕΤΕ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ; _did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?_ On the use of εἰ as simply the mark of an interrogation c...
Acts 19:1-7. PAUL RETURNING TO EPHESUS FINDS THERE SOME DISCIPLES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST...
_TWELVE MEN WERE BAPTIZED AT EPHESUS ACTS 19:1-10:_ Paul went to Ephesus after Apollos had gone to Corinth. At Ephesus he met some disciples that had been baptized with John's baptism. The way that Pa...
ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. ΕΊ (G1487) если, ли. Частица используется для ввода прямого вопроса, вероятно, это связано с переводом_евр._ вопросительной частицы (RG, 916; BD, 226)...
HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED, &C.— St. Paul found at Ephesus _twelve disciples,_ who either had been converted there, or, as is more probable, had come to Ephesus out of some remote country sin...
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....
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. HE SAID UNTO THEM, [ heuroon (G2147) ......
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...
HAVE YE RECEIVED] RV 'did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?' Of course they had heard of the Holy Ghost, but St. Paul means, had they experienced that new power of holiness, that peace and l...
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...
HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? — Better, as connecting the two facts in the English as in the Greek, _Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?_ — _i.e.,_ on your conversion...
μαθ.… πιστεύσαντες : Blass points out that both these words are used only of Christians. From St. Chrysostom's days the men have often been regarded merely as disciples of the Baptist (so McGiffert, p...
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...
Some Disciples Who Were Reimmersed From Corinth, Paul went on to Ephesus. He met a group of disciples and asked them if they had received the Holy Spirit. Apparently they were some of those who had be...
He said unto them, Have ye received the (a) Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. (a) Those excellent gifts of the Holy S...
St. Paul first inquires of them, if they have received the Holy Ghost by confirmation. Their answer is probably not to be interpreted with rigour; since they must have heard something of the holy Spir...
_“Did you receive the Holy Ghost, having believed? And they said, But we did not hear that the Holy Ghost is given.”_ Apollos, under the powerful preaching of John the Baptist, having learned that the...
SANCTIFICATION OF THE EPHESIAN CHURCH 1-7. Apollos remains preaching in the great church at Corinth, the largest and most gifted of the age, the result of an eighteen months' protracted meeting held b...
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, (2) He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Gh...
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 GOSPEL OF THE HOLY GHOST_ ‘Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?’ Acts 19:2 The Acts of the Apostles has been called ‘The Gospel of the Holy Ghost.’ It shows us that the Holy Ghost...
_IGNORANCE INDEED_ ‘And they said unto him, We Have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.’ Acts 19:2 Such is the condition of many at the present day in Christian England, and that...
− 2._Whether they had received the Holy Ghost. _The end of the history doth show that Paul doth not speak in this place of the Spirit of regeneration, but of the special gifts which God gave to divers...
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...
HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST,.... Meaning, not the special regenerating and sanctifying grace of the Holy Ghost, for that is supposed in their being disciples and believers, but...
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. Ver. 2. _Have ye received the Holy Ghost_]...
Having found _certain disciples_ Who had been formerly baptized by John the Baptist, and since imperfectly instructed in Christianity, _he said, Have ye received the Holy Ghost?_ The extraordinary gif...
RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST; his miraculous powers. NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD; that the Holy Spirit had been given, in his special manifestations, as at the day of Pentecost. Acts 2:17-18....
HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE BE ANY HOLY GHOST....
PAUL'S WORK AT EPHESUS. Acts 19:1 Paul's arrival at Ephesus:...
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...
HE SAID TO THEM, " DID YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU BELIEVED? " SO THEY SAID TO HIM, " WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE IS A HOLY SPIRIT. " 1. Paul finds some disciples at Ephesus....
"and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given"Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when y...
1-7 Paul, at Ephesus, found some religious persons, who looked to Jesus as the Messiah. They had not been led to expect the miraculous powers of the Holy Ghost, nor were they informed that the gospel...
HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST? The extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost, as prophesying, speaking with tongues, healing of the sick, &c., as appears by ACTS 18:6, and 1 THESSALONIANS 7:39; for it c...
Origen Commentary on John Book VI We next remark in passing that the baptism of John was inferior to the baptism of Jesus which was given through His disciples. Those persons in the Acts[104]...
Acts 19:2 said G2036 (G5627) to G4314 them G846 G1487 receive G2983 (G5627) Holy G40 Spirit...
‘And it came about that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples, and he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit...
PAUL'S MINISTRY IN EPHESUS AMONG THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN THE BAPTISER (19:1-7). Meanwhile Paul, having encouraged the churches in Phrygia-Galatia arrived via the mountain regions in Ephesus. There he ca...
‘And they said to him, “No, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given.” ' Their reply explained why it was that there was no obvious open evidence within their lives of the Spirit....
Acts 19:2. HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? The more accurate rendering is far more emphatic and clear, ‘Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?' Did its mighty influence in...
DID YE RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YE BELIEVED? (ε πνευμα αγιον ελαβετε πιστευσαντεσ?). This use of Π in a direct question occurs in Acts 1:6, is not according to the old Greek idiom, but is common...
HAVE Not as in A.V, "since ye believed," but as in R.V. And margin reference, "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed?" Paul was evidently impressed by the absence of spirituality and power...
Acts 19:2 I. Why should not each of us put this question to his own heart as a personal inquiry, as a question that ought to be answered as before God, without equivocation, without self-deception, an...
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...
DID YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU BELIEVED? Paul's question must refer to the special gifts, since a believer would be expected to have the Spirit living (indwelling) in him (1 Corinthians 6:19...
_And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches._ PAUL AS A MODEL FOR ALL GOSPEL MINISTERS He recognises the importance of-- I. Establishing new converts in the faith. In this visit...
_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...
_He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?_ RECEIVING THE HOLY GHOST I. The question itself. 1. Have we received anything? We have said that we believe in Christ. But to...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:2 NOT EVEN HEARD THAT THERE IS A HOLY SPIRIT. They had probably moved from Palestine to Ephesus before Jesus’ ministry began. As followers of John, they knew the Messiah would bri...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:1. WHILE APOLLOS WAS AT CORINTH.—A note of time for the incidents narrated in the present chapter. THE UPPER COASTS, or the upper country.—The district mentioned above (Acts...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:1; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Samuel 3:7; Acts 10:44;...
Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? The two verbs are in the aorist tense, and therefore denote instantaneous acts. The A. V. therefore gives an entirely wrong idea, as there is no ques...
Have ye received the Holy Ghost? — The extraordinary gifts of the Spirit, as well as his sanctifying graces? We have not so much as heard — Whether there be any such gifts....