The four evangelists bid adieu to the sorrowing saints at the house of Lydia, travel southward, thirty-three miles to Amphipolis, where they do not tarry because there is no Jewish synagogue. Judgment begins at the house of God. Hence they give the preference to the Jews constituting the popular chu... [ Continue Reading ]
They spend three weeks preaching on the streets and in the houses, and in the synagogue on the Sabbath, Paul showing up clearly from the Scriptures that Jesus the Nazarene is the Christ of Israel, the Shiloh of prophecy and the Savior of the world. Quite a host of both Jews and Greeks, including man... [ Continue Reading ]
Meanwhile the unbelieving Jews, mad and jealous of the Gentiles, run round and stir up the uncouth rabble, assault the house of Jason where the apostles were lodging, aiming to kill them, but the Lord having hidden them so they can not find them, they drag out Jason and certain brethren before the r... [ Continue Reading ]
Now leaving Timothy at Thessalonica to continue the meeting, Paul, Silas and Luke continue their journey southward, fifty-seven miles to Berea, also a prominent city, where there is a synagogue of the Jews. Paul invariably began his labors in the Jewish synagogues, always succeeding in the conversio... [ Continue Reading ]
Timothy had remained back at Thessalonica; now arriving at Berea, he joins Silas, left by Paul in the prosecution of the work in Berea.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the brethren escort Paul in his journey southward all the way to Athens, the great metropolis of Greece, enjoying Roman freedom and the brightest light of civilization and education, poetry, oratory, philosophy and the fine arts beneath the skies. How significant that when Paul had to run for hi... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL AT ATHENS 16-33. While Timothy and Silas prosecute the work in the upper country, Paul and Luke spend the time at Athens, the world's grand emporium of science, literature, philosophy, and idolatry. While he preaches in the forum all the week and in the synagogue on the Sabbath, his very soul i... [ Continue Reading ]
They now lead Paul up to the summit of the Areopagus, that he may stand before that grave assembly of philosophers, orators, poets, statesmen, warriors and sages, recognized by the people as the legitimate custodians of all truth and proper arbiters of every new doctrine, or new religion which might... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, aid: _“Athenian men, I perceive that in all things you are very religious,”_ not, as E. V. says, _“too superstitious,”_ in which case they would have skedaddled him in a hurry.... [ Continue Reading ]
_“For going through and seeing your devotions_ [_i. e_., temple, shrines, altars and statues], _I also found an altar on which was superscribed, ‘To the Unknown God.' Therefore, whom you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.”_ Wonderfully shrewdly did Paul, in this way, approach and touch the... [ Continue Reading ]
_“And of one_ [_i. e_., one man, Adam; _“blood,”_ as in E. V., not in the original] _he made every race of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth.”_ Having first expounded to them the God of Providence, filling the world with His benefactions, he astounds them by certifying that He can not be... [ Continue Reading ]