This feast; the feast of the passover. A pious man with right views, in forming his plans, will not lose sight of his dependence on God, or forget that, if the Lord will, he shall live and do this or that; and he will honor Him by the suitable expression, at proper times, of this momentous truth.
ACTS 18:21 eivpw,n {A} The addition made by the Western reviser, which has passed into the later ecclesiastical text (and therefore is represented in the AV: “I must by all means keep this feast that...
Verse Acts 18:21. _I MUST - KEEP THIS FEAST_] Most likely the _passover_, at which he wished to attend for the purpose of seeing many of his friends, and having the most favourable opportunity to pre...
KEEP THIS FEAST - Probably the Passover is here referred to. Why he was so anxious to celebrate that feast at Jerusalem, the historian has not informed us. It is probable, however, that he wished to m...
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...
JOURNEY TO SYRIA. No special object, is stated; the facts are placed before us abruptly, and some are hard to understand. An apostle is by his office a traveller who does not give himself to any one c...
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...
After Paul had remained there many days longer he took leave of the brethren and sailed away to Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila went with him. At Cenchrea he had his head shorn for he had a vow. They...
BADE THEM FAREWELL. Greek. _apotasso,_ as in Acts 18:18, "took his leave. " I MUST... JERUSALEM. The texts omit this clause, but not the Syriac. RETURN. Greek. _anakampto,_ bend back (my steps). Only...
ἈΠΟΤΑΞΆΜΕΝΟΣ ΚΑῚ ΕἸΠΏΝ with אABD. _Vulg_. ‘valefaciens et dicens.’ Δεῖ με πάντως τὴν ἑορτὴν τὴν ἐρχομένην ποιῆσαι εἰς Ἱεροσόλνμα omitted with אABE. Not represented in _Vulg_. The δὲ after ΠΆΛΙΝ, and...
PAUL LEAVES CORINTH TO GO INTO SYRIA, HALTING A SHORT TIME AT CENCHREÆ, AND SOMEWHAT LONGER AT EPHESUS. HE LANDS AT CÆSAREA, GOES UP TO JERUSALEM, AND FROM THENCE TO ANTIOCH, AND AFTER A TIME DEPARTS...
_PAUL WATERED WHAT HE HAD PLANTED ACTS 18:18-23:_ At Cenchrea Paul shaved his head because of a vow he had made. One would be hard pressed to prove that this vow was one peculiar to the Law, which it...
ΆΠΟΤΑΞΆΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.), см._ Acts 18:18. ΕΙΠΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΛΈΓΩ, _см._ Acts 18:6. ΑΝΑΚΆΜΨΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΑΝΑΚΆΜΠΤΩ (G344) поворачиваться, возвращаться. В...
AND HE CAME TO EPHESUS,— For the short time that the apostle now continued at Ephesus, which seems to have been but one sabbath-day, he went into the synagogue, and discoursed with the Jews, and with...
AT CENCHREA. Acts 18:18. Acts 18:18 And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn hi...
See notes on verse 19...
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus. BUT BADE THEM FAREWELL, SAYI...
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...
THIS FEAST] i.e. Pentecost (or possibly Passover) 52 a.d. Clearly St. Paul had vowed to make his Nazirite offering at this feast. The RV omits the words referring to the feast altogether, but they are...
VISIT TO JERUSALEM. Paul probably sailed in a ship specially chartered to convey Jews to Palestine to keep the Passover....
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...
I MUST BY ALL MEANS KEEP THIS FEAST THAT COMETH. — Literally, _the coming,_ or, _the next feast._ This was, probably, as has been said, the Feast of Pentecost. (See Note on Acts 18:18.) If he missed t...
CHAPTER 14 THE EPHESIAN CHURCH AND ITS FOUNDATION. Acts 18:19; Acts 18:24; Acts 19:1 EPHESUS has been from very ancient times a distinguished city. It was famous in the religious history of Asia Min...
See critical note. The Feast, as Ramsay maintains, _St. Paul_, p. 264 (so Ewald, Renan, Zöckler, Rendall, Blass and others), was the Passover, the one which seems most reconcilable with the chronology...
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...
Paul's Return to Antioch Paul spent a short time preaching in the synagogue in Ephesus. He promised to return if it was God's will, left Priscilla and Aquila and sailed on to Caesarea. The apostle ma...
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, (m) if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus. (m) So we should promise n...
Going down to Caesarea, and up to Jerusalem,...
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary...
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...
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...
BUT BADE THEM FAREWELL, SAYING,.... As follows: I MUST BY ALL MEANS KEEP THIS FEAST THAT COMETH IN JERUSALEM; which perhaps was the passover, since that often went by the name of the feast: the why h...
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus. Ver. 21. _Keep this feast_] As...
_And he came to Ephesus_ The ship in which they sailed probably having occasion to touch there. _And he entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews_ Upon whom his discourse made such an imp...
but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem; But I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus....
THE RETURN TRIP TO ANTIOCH AND THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD JOURNEY. From Corinth to Antioch:...
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...
BUT TOOK LEAVE OF THEM, SAYING, " I MUST BY ALL MEANS KEEP THIS COMING FEAST IN JERUSALEM; BUT I WILL RETURN AGAIN TO YOU, GOD WILLING. " AND HE SAILED FROM EPHESUS. 1. He not only refused to stay, h...
18-23 While Paul found he laboured not in vain, he continued labouring. Our times are in God's hand; we purpose, but he disposes; therefore we must make all promises with submission to the will of Go...
THIS FEAST; the feast of the passover; which is meant where feast is put absolutely, unless some after expression qualifies it: not that this holy man did out of conscience to the feast intend to obse...
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‘And when they asked him to remain a longer time, he refused his consent, but taking his leave of them, and saying, “I will return again to you if God will”, he set sail from Ephesus.' The Jews there...
PAUL RETURNS TO ANTIOCH VIA EPHESUS AND JERUSALEM (18:18-22). The ministry at Corinth continued for some time after which Paul decided that it was time to return back to the church at Syrian Antioch...
I SHALL RETURN (ανακαμψω). Future active indicative of ανακαμπτω, old verb to bend back, turn back (Matthew 2:2).IF GOD WILL (του θεου θελοντος). Genitive absolute of present active participle. Th...
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...
PAUL STAYED ON IN CORINTH. This may be included in the year and a half (Acts 18:11). The point is that he was not forced to leave the area by what the Jews were doing. THEN LEFT THEM AND SAILED OFF. H...
_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...
_I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem._ THE DUTY OF OBSERVING THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER When our Lord came to be baptized He satisfied John by saying, “Suffer it to b...
_And Paul after this tarried there a good while._ PREPARING FOR LABOUR 1. Paul has conquered his position in Corinth. He seemed to have acquired a right to remain there. And after tarrying “a good wh...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:21 WILL RETURN... IF GOD WILLS. Paul’s brief appearance in the synagogue prepared the way for his later ministry in Ephesus (ch. Acts 19:1) during his third missi
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:18. HAVING SHORN HIS HEAD AT CENCHREA, FOR HE HAD A VOW.—The uncertainties connected with this passage are three: 1. Whether Aquila (Kuinoel, Meyer, Wendt, Zöckler) or Paul...
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 4:19; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Acts 15:29; Acts 19:21;...
I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem. The best texts omit....
I must by all means keep the feast at Jerusalem — This was not from any apprehension that he was obliged in conscience to keep the Jewish feasts; but to take the opportunity of meeting a great number...