Now, doubtless encouraged by Aquila and Priscilla, he proceeds at once to cross the Aegean Sea to Europe, where he is so much needed, at this time to fill the vacancy created by Paul, who has returned to Asia on a vast tour, visiting all the churches in the interest of their sanctification.
ACTS 18:27 The Western reviser (D, supported in large part by syrhmg) expanded and paraphrased this verse as follows: evn de. th|/ VEfe,sw| evpidhmou/nte,j tinej Kori,nqioi kai. avkou,santej auvtou/...
Verse Acts 18:27. _WHEN HE WAS DISPOSED TO PASS INTO ACHAIA_] There is a very long and important _addition_ here in the _Codex Bezae_, of which the following is a translation: _But certain Corinthian...
INTO ACHAIA - See the notes on Acts 18:12. THE BRETHREN WROTE - The brethren at Ephesus. Why he was disposed to go into Achaia the historian does not inform us. But he had heard of the success of Paul...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. In Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla. His Testimony and Separation from the Jews (Acts 18:1)._ 2. Encouragement from the Lord in a vision (Acts 18:9). 3. Paul and Gallio (Acts 18:12...
APOLLOS AT EPHESUS. Apollos is well known to us from 1 Cor.; his name was adopted by one of the Corinthian parties as their standard (1 Corinthians 1:12 *). Here we learn more about him, that he was a...
PREACHING IN CORINTH (Acts 18:1-11) Its very position made Corinth (G2882) a key city of Greece. Greece is almost cut in two by the sea. On one side is the Saronic Gulf with its port of Cenchrea and...
A Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria and a man of culture, arrived in Ephesus. He was able to use the scriptures to great effect. This man had been instructed in The Way of the Lord. H...
'WAS DISPOSED. wished. Greek. _boulomai._ App-102. EXHORTING. Greek. _protrepomai._ Only here. According to the order in the Greek this refers to Apollos, and it should read, "the brethren, having en...
_And when he was_ MINDED _to pass_ OVER _into Achaia_ The original expresses more than an inclination on his part; he wished to go. We find from Acts 19:1 that the centre of his labours there was Cori...
24–28. VISIT OF APOLLOS TO EPHESUS, AND HIS TEACHING THERE. HE IS MORE FULLY INSTRUCTED BY AQUILA AND PRISCILLA, AND AFTERWARDS PASSING OVER INTO ACHAIA, PREACHES CHRIST THERE WITH GREAT POWER...
ΒΟΥΛΟΜΈΝΟΥ ΔῈ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΔΙΕΛΘΕΙ͂Ν, Ε. Τ. Ἀ., _and when he was minded to pass over into Achaia_. We find from Acts 19:1 that the centre of his labours there was Corinth. Being acquainted with the philoso...
_AN ACCOUNT OF APOLLO'S SPIRITUAL GROWTH ACTS 18:24-28:_ Apollos came to Ephesus. He was powerful in speech and prudent. This man had a great knowledge of Scriptures, but he knew only the baptism of J...
ΒΟΥΛΟΜΈΝΟΥ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΒΟΎΛΟΜΑΙ (G1014) хотеть, желать, решать, с _inf. Gen. abs._ ΔΙΕΛΘΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf., см._ Acts 18:23. ΠΡΟΤΡΕΨΆΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΠΡ...
DISCOURSE: 1793 CHARACTER AND MINISTRY OF APOLLOS Acts 18:24. And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instruct...
WHO—HELPED, &C.— The best comment on the words is what we are told elsewhere, 1 Corinthians 3:6. _Paul planted, and Apollos watered; but God gave the increase._ It is indeed true, both that the Corint...
AT EPHESUS. Acts 18:24 Acts 19:41 a. Apollos teaching the baptism of John is corrected by Priscilla and Aquila. Acts 19:24-28. Acts 19:24
27, 28. For some reason unexplained, Apollos concluded to leave Ephesus, and visit the Churches planted by Paul in Achaia. (27) "_And when he desired to cross into Achaia, the brethren wrote, urging t...
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: AND WHEN HE WAS D...
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...
18:27 receive (b-18) See Luke 8:40 ....
WROTE.. THE DISCIPLES] Christians travelling received 'letters of commendation 'to other Christian Churches, which secured them hospitality and admission to communion (cp. 2 Corinthians 3:1). HELPED T...
Apollos at Ephesus. 24. Apollos] The name is a contraction of Apollonius. He is mentioned again Acts 19:1; 1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:4.;...
THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY, AUG. 52 A.D. TO PENTECOST 56 A.D. (ACTS 18:23 TO ACTS 21:16) 23. Visit to Galatia. St. Paul revisits Antioch in Syria and the Churches of Galatia and Phrygia, founded in the...
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONCLUDED) 1-18. St. Paul at Corinth. Corinth was the capital of the Roman province of Achaia. The ancient town had been entirely destroyed in 146 b.c. by the Roman general...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 18 PAUL GOES TO CORINTH, 18:1-4 V1 After this, Paul left Athens and he went to Corinth. V2 In Corinth, he met a *Jew called Aquila. Aquila had...
AND WHEN HE WAS DISPOSED TO PASS INTO ACHAIA. — In the absence of the name of any city in the province, Corinth naturally suggests itself as the place to which he went. Acts 19:1, and the mention of A...
διελθεῖν εἰς, _cf._ Luke 8:22; Mark 4:35, Latin, _trajicere_. προτρεψ.… ἔγραψαν : “encouraged him and wrote,” R.V., so Chrysostom, Erasmus, Grotius, Bengel, Felten, Lumby, Rendall, Knabenbauer: “curre...
NEW HELPERS IN THE GOSPEL Acts 18:18 In unimportant matters Paul was still amenable to Hebrew customs and rites, Acts 18:18. Probably he desired to conciliate his Judaizing opponents so far as he cou...
Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...
Apollos At Ephesus, an Alexandrian Jew named Apollos, who was an eloquent speaker, began to preach about Jesus. Luke assured Theophilus that Apollos was mighty in the scriptures and very accurate in...
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through (p) grace: (p) Through God...
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. (25) This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spiri...
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...
− 27._When he was determined. _Luke doth not express for what cause Apollos would go to Achaia. Notwithstanding, we gather out of the text [context] that he was not allured with any private commodity,...
At Thessalonica Paul twice received succour from Philippi; at Corinth, where money and commerce abounded, he does not take it, but quietly works with two of his countrymen of the same trade as himself...
AND WHEN HE WAS DISPOSED TO PASS INTO ACHAIA, c. The chief city of which was Corinth, and whither Apollos went, as appears from Acts 19:1. What disposed him to go thither, after he had received a gre...
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: Ver. 27. _Helped th...
_And when_ Having received this more perfect instruction in the Christian faith; _he was disposed to pass into Achaia_ That he might preach the word at Corinth, and other places in that province; _the...
ACHAIA; a part of Greece, of which Corinth was the capital, where Aquila and Priscilla had lived. THE BRETHREN WROTE; the Christians at Ephesus wrote letters, recommending Apollos to the Christians i...
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace;...
The beginning of the third missionary journey:...
Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wif...
AND WHEN HE DESIRED TO CROSS TO ACHAIA, THE BRETHREN WROTE, EXHORTING THE DISCIPLES TO RECEIVE HIM; AND WHEN HE ARRIVED, HE GREATLY HELPED THOSE WHO HAD BELIEVED THROUGH GRACE; 1. Now, Apollos is on...
24-28 Apollos taught in the gospel of Christ, as far as John's ministry would carry him, and no further. We cannot but think he had heard of Christ's death and resurrection, but he was not informed a...
TO PASS INTO ACHAIA; to Corinth, which was in Achaia. THE BRETHREN WROTE; who were at Ephesus. HELPED THEM MUCH WHICH HAD BELIEVED THROUGH GRACE; Apollos helped them much by his eloquence, zeal, and c...
27, 28. For some reason unexplained, Apollos concluded to leave Ephesus, and visit the Churches planted by Paul in Achaia. (27) "_ And when he desired to cross into Achaia, the brethren wrote, urging...
Acts 18:27 And G1161 he G846 desired G1014 (G5740) cross G1330 (G5629) to G1519 Achaia G882 brethren...
THE MINISTRY OF APOLLOS IN ACHAIA (18:27-28). ‘And when he was minded to pass over into Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him, and when he was come, he helped...
Acts 18:27. AND WHEN HE WAS DISPOSED TO PASS INTO ACHAIA. No doubt it was to Corinth, where Apollos knew the early stories of a great and flourishing church had been laid by the very Paul of whom he h...
ENCOURAGED HIM (προτρεψαμενο). First aorist middle participle of προτρεπω, old verb, to urge forward, to push on, only here in the N.T. Since Apollos wanted (βουλομενου αυτου, genitive absolute) to...
Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1. _After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth:_ Another most i...
CONTENTS: Paul at Corinth. The careless Gallio. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Apollos at Ephesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Paul, Aquila, Priscilla, Claudius, Silas, Timothy, Justus, Crispus, Gallio, Sosthenes,...
Acts 18:2. _Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome._ Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ninth...
A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS. Alexandria was the cultural center of the Greek-speaking Jews. The Septuagint [Greek translation of the Old Testament] was written there; and the most magnificent synagogu...
_And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him._ THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH AT HOME TO THE WORK AND THE WORKERS ABROAD 1. We should give our Ch...
And after he had spent some time [at Antioch] he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia._--_ PAUL’S THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY 1. Nothing was said as to who went with him from C...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:27 ACHAIA refers particularly to Corinth (in the province of Achaia), where Paul had already established a church. Aquila and Priscilla were well known there, so a letter from the...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:23. THE REGION OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA.—See on Acts 16:6. Acts 18:24. A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS—a diminutive or pet name for Apollomos, which occurs in Codex D. (Ramsay)....
EXPOSITION ACTS 18:1 _He _for _Paul, _A.V. and T.R. AFTER THESE THINGS, etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Beroeans, who...
Let's turn now to the eighteenth chapter of Acts as we continue our study through the Bible. At the end of the study last week, the end of chapter seventeen, we found Paul speaking to the Epicurean an...
1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 16:3; 1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 3:6;...
Exhorting [π ρ ο τ ρ ε ψ α μ ε ν ο ι]. Originally, to turn forward, as in flight. Hence, to impel or urge. The word may apply either to the disciples at Corinth, in which case we must render as A. V.,...
Who greatly helped through grace — It is through grace only that any gift of any one is profitable to another. Them that had believed — Apollos did not plant, but water. This was the peculiar gift whi...