Vincent's Word Studies in the NT
Acts 19:14
Did [π ο ι ο υ ν τ ε ς]. The participle denotes a practice.
Did [π ο ι ο υ ν τ ε ς]. The participle denotes a practice.
Verse Acts 19:14. _SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW, AND CHIEF OF THE_ _PRIESTS_] The original Ιουδαιου αρχιερεως, dignifies a _Jewish high_ _priest_; but it is not probable that any sons, much less se...
ONE SCEVA - Sceva is a Greek name, but nothing more is known of him. CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS - This cannot mean that he was high priest among the Jews, as it is wholly improbable that his sons would be w...
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....
Some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists tried naming the name of Jesus over those who had evil spirits. They said, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." There were seven sons of a certain Scaeva,...
SONS. Greek. _huios._ App-108. CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS. a chief priest. Greek. _archiereus._ This word is only used in the Gospels, Acts, and Hebrews. It is used of the High Priest and priestly members o...
_And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests_ The Greek says simply A CHIEF PRIEST, and so _Rev. Ver._We cannot tell why the title is given to him, but it is most likely th...
ΥἹΟῚ after ἘΠΤᾺ and omitting οἱ with אABE. _Vulg_. has ‘septem filii qui hoc faciebant.’ 14. ἮΣΑΝ ΔΈ ΤΙΝΕΣ … ἈΡΧΙΕΡΈΩΣ ἙΠΤᾺ ΥἹΟΊ, _and there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest_. We c...
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...
ΉΣΑΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ, _см._ Acts 19:1. _Impf._ с _part._ в перифр. обороте. ΣΚΕΥΆ (G4630) Скева. Это имя может означать "левша" (BASHH, 234; MM; ABD, 5:1004). АΡΧΙΕΡΕΎΣ (G749) первосвященн...
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....
See notes on verse 13...
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW, AND CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS - head, probably, of one of the 24 co...
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...
SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW, AND CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS. — Better, _a Jewish chief priest._ The word might mean that he was at the head of one of the twenty-four courses into which the priests of the...
See critical note. Σκευᾶ : probably a Latin name adapted to Greek, see Blass, _in loco_, who gives instances of its occurrence, see also _Gram._, p. 13, and Winer-Schmeidel, p. 75. Ewald refers it to...
THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME Acts 19:13 Where God's spirit is mightily at work, Satan is not far away. Here the enemy's emissaries were mean enough to use the name of Jesus to get themselves a few more s...
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...
Here we see a case in which those Jewish exorcists [_i. e_., people gifted with the power of demoniacal ejectment, of course delegated by Jehovah], undertake to utilize the Christ of Paul in that way....
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...
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 THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA A JEW,.... Who strolled about the country, and used exorcisms: and CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS; that were at Ephesus; not the high priest of the Jews, for he would hav...
And there were seven sons of _one_ Sceva, a Jew, _and_ chief of the priests, which did so. Ver. 14. _Seven sons of one Sceva_] All fathers, but especially ministers, should use all utmost care that t...
_Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists_ Dr. Whitby, and several other critics, have produced many passages from Irenæus, Origen, Epiphanius, and Josephus, to prove that several of the Jews, abo...
AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW AND CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS, WHICH DID SO....
The encounter with the exorcists:...
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...
ALSO THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF SCEVA, A JEWISH CHIEF PRIEST, WHO DID SO. 1. We now meet the seven sons of Sceva. Sceva is a priest. He is called a chief priest. This is not the same as a "high" priest...
"And there were seven sons of one Sceva,. Jew,. chief priest, who did this"Seven sons" "Doubtless the fact that they were seven brothers added to the mystery of their pretensions, just as. fortune-tel...
13-20 It was common, especially among the Jews, for persons to profess or to try to cast out evil spirits. If we resist the devil by faith in Christ, he will flee from us; but if we think to resist h...
One of the chief of the twenty-four courses into which the priests were divided, 1 CHRONICLES 24:4, or such as (according to the corruption of those times) had been high priests, and were laid aside,...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII and Caiaphas at last was his own murderer; and the sons of Sceva, endeavouring to cast out demons, were wounded by them, and fled away in an unseemly mann...
Acts 19:14 Also G1161 were G2258 (G5713) seven G2033 sons G5207 Sceva G4630 G5100 Jewish G2453 priest...
‘And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this, and the evil spirit answered and said to them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?” ' Included among these ex...
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 19:14. AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW, AND CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS, WHICH DID SO. Many suppositions have been hazarded respecting this title of Sceva the Jew, ‘chief of the priests.'...
SEVEN SONS OF SCEVA (Σκευα επτα υιο). Who this Sceva was we do not know. If a high priest, he was highly connected in Jerusalem (cf. Acts 5:24). Some MSS. have ruler instead of priest. His name may...
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...
SOME JEWS. These were "professional exorcists" who made their living by driving out evil spirits. _Justin Martyr_ says that most of these Jewish exorcists had adopted the same superstitions and magic-...
_Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists._ SEVEN SONS OF SCEVA A great spiritual revolution had taken place in Ephesus. At first Paul found the twelve disciples without Christian knowledge beyon...
_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 19:13. VAGABOND.—_I.e._, wandering about, or strolling JEWS, EXORCISTS, by profession (compare Matthew 12:8). “They appear to have regarded Paul as one of their own class, but...
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...
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