Felicitously, there is a large synagogue of Jews at Corinth, and it is too far from Northern Greece for his persecutors to follow him. So he works all the week and preaches every Sabbath in the synagogue.
ACTS 18:2-4 The original form of the Western text, which in verses Acts 18:2 and Acts 18:3 codex Bezae presents in a form somewhat accommodated to the A...
Verse Acts 18:4. _HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SABBATH_] Discoursed at large concerning Jesus as the Messiah, proving this point from their own Scriptures, collated with the facts of our Lord's...
AND HE REASONED ... - See the notes on Acts 17:2....
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...
PAUL AT CORINTH. Corinth (p. 832), the seat of the Roman proconsul, was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and luxury...
After this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth. There he found a Jew called Aquila, who was a native of Pontus, but who had newly arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had decr...
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...
REASONED. Greek. _dialegomai._ See Acts 17:2; Acts 17:17. SYNAGOGUE. App-120. In the museum at Corinth is. fragment of. stone with the inscription, (_suna_) _goge hebr_ (_aion_). synagogue of the Hebr...
_and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks_ There are no articles in the original and they are omitted in the _Revised Version_. No doubt, as in other Gentile cities, the religion of the Jews in Corinth g...
ἜΠΕΙΘΈΝ ΤΕ ἸΟΥΔΑΊΟΥΣ ΚΑῚ ἝΛΛΗΝΑΣ, _and persuaded both Jews and Greeks_. No doubt as in other Gentile cities, the religion of the Jews in Corinth gained the attention of many among the Gentiles, who as...
Acts 18:1-11. PAUL GOES FROM ATHENS TO CORINTH, LABOURS THERE WITH HIS OWN HANDS FOR HIS MAINTENANCE. HE IS ENCOURAGED IN HIS PREACHING BY A VISION OF THE LORD...
_PAUL'S GREAT SUCCESS AT CORINTH ACTS 18:1-11:_ After Paul's sermon in the Areopagus and the good result of it he traveled to Corinth. At Corinth he associated with Aquila and his wife Priscilla. They...
ΔΙΕΛΈΓΕΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΔΙΑΛΈΓΟΜΑΙ (G1256) обсуждать, спорить, дискутировать (_см._ Acts 17:2). Iterat. _impf._ указывает на повторяющееся действие, ΈΠΕΙΘΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΊΘΩ ...
AND HE REASONED, &C.— Philo informs us, that many Jews inhabited Corinth, and the chief and best parts of Peloponnesus. And St. Luke in this place, as well as St. Paul in his two epistles to the Corin...
IN CORINTH. Acts 18:1-17. Acts 18:1 After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. Acts 18:2 And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Ita...
4, 5. Notwithstanding all the discouragements of his situation, he devoted the Sabbaths, and whatever portion of the week his manual labor would permit, to the great work. (4) "_But he discoursed ever...
And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. AND HE REASONED ('OR DISCOURSED') IN THE SYNAGOGUE OVERT SABBATH, AND PERSUADED, [ epeithen (G3982)] - 'sough...
3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...
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...
ST PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, 49, 50 A.D. (ACTS 15:36 TO ACTS 18:22) Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his missionary labo...
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...
HE PERSUADED THE JEWS AND THE GREEKS. — It is necessary to remind the reader that the latter word does not mean Greek-speaking Jews, or proselytes in the full sense of the word, but, as elsewhere (see...
διελέγετο δὲ … ἔπειθέ τε : “and he used to discourse … and tried to persuade,” so Ramsay, marking the imperfects, see also Hackett's note. Ἐλληνας : proselytes, since they are represented as in the sy...
A GREAT MINISTRY IN A GREAT CITY Acts 18:1 Paul tells us, in 1 Corinthians 2:1, that he entered Corinth with fear and trembling and made no effort to attract by human wisdom or eloquence. From the f...
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...
Preaching in Corinth Following his normal pattern, Paul first preached in the synagogue in Corinth. During that time, Silas and Timothy once again joined the apostle's company. Silas may have come fro...
(2) And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and (b) persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. (2) The truth ought always to be freely uttered, yet nonetheless the doctrine may be moderated in accord...
_Introducing the name of the Lord Jesus. These words are found in few Greek copies, and so are omitted in the Protestant translation. (Witham)_...
After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth; (2) And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; because that (Claudius had...
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...
− 4._He disputed in the synagogue _It is a wonder how that crept in which is in the Latin books, − (317) that Paul put in the name of Christ: unless it were because some reader would supply the want o...
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 HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SABBATH,.... In Corinth there was a synagogue of the Jews, in which they met together for worship on the seventh day of the week, which was their sabbath; and hi...
And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. Ver. 4. _Persuaded the Jews_] Men may speak persuasively, but God only can persuade. Genesis 9:27, Japheth's chi...
_And he reasoned in the synagogue_, &c. The Jews being numerous in Corinth, Paul, according to his custom, began his ministry in the synagogue; _and persuaded_ That is, endeavoured to persuade; _the J...
PERSUADED THE JEWS; that Jesus was the Christ....
PAUL AT CORINTH. Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:...
AND HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SABBATH, AND PERSUADED THE JEWS AND THE GREEKS....
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 HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SABBATH, AND PERSUADED BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS. 1. Paul was making tents during the week and speaking in the synagogue every Sabbath day. 2. He was teaching Jews...
"And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks"Reasoned" This reasoning would be from the O.T. Scriptures (Acts 17:2). Notice how Paul felt that preaching was based upo...
1-6 Though Paul was entitled to support from the churches he planted, and from the people to whom he preached, yet he worked at his calling. An honest trade, by which a man may get his bread, is not...
HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE; or argued and disputed, giving his reasons out of Scripture, and answering their objections. AND PERSUADED THE JEWS; not only using cogent arguments, but, as some underst...
4, 5. Notwithstanding all the discouragements of his situation, he devoted the Sabbaths, and whatever portion of the week his manual labor would permit, to the great work. (4) "_ But he discoursed eve...
Acts 18:4 And G1161 reasoned G1256 (G5711) in G1722 synagogue G4864 G2596 every G3956 Sabbath G4521 and...
SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY IN CORINTH (18:1-17). Paul had recognised that in a small town like Athens he could well spare his companions and had sent Timothy off to Thessalonica, and Silas to Macedonia, pos...
‘And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.' But however he was feeling, every Sabbath day he went to the synagogue, and ‘entered into dialogue' with both Jews and...
Acts 18:4. AND HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SABBATH. According to his invariable custom, speaking the things of the kingdom, first to his own countrymen, and to the strangers who loved the God o...
HE REASONED (διελεγετο). Imperfect middle, same form as in Acts 17:17 about Paul's work in Athens, here only on the Sabbaths.PERSUADED (επειθεν). Imperfect active, conative, he tried to persuade...
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...
HE ARGUED IN THE SYNAGOGUE. After working six days making tents, he spent the seventh day proclaiming the Good News of Christ....
_After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth._ PAUL AT CORINTH Paul entered, not the grand, classical Corinth, but a sort of afterglow Corinth. The old city had been destroyed by...
_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...
_And found a certain Jew named Aquila … with his wife Priscilla._ AQUILA AND PRISCILLA No book is less systematic than the Bible, yet none has so complete a code of faith and duty. Its statements of...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:4 GREEKS. God-fearers. ⇐ ⇔...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:1. PAUL.—Omitted in the best texts. How long the Apostle stayed in Athens—Weiseler suggests fourteen days; Ramsay, three or four weeks—and how he CAME TO CORINTH, whether b...
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...
2 Chronicles 32:11; 2 Corinthians 5:11; Acts 13:14; Acts 14:1;...
Observe here, How vehemently desirous the holy apostle was to plant. Christian church at Corinth, and to bring the Jews of Corinth to embrace the gospel: HE WAS PRESSED IN SPIRIT, AND TESTIFIED, that...