Compelled them; that is, used violent means to induce them. It does not follow that his efforts were successful.
Blaspheme; the name of Jesus, by denying him to be the Messiah.
Strange cities; cities in foreign lands.
Verse Acts 26:11. _BEING EXCEEDINGLY MAD AGAINST THEM_] Only a _madman_ will persecute another because of his differing from him in religious opinion; and the fiercest persecutor is he who should be d...
AND I PUNISHED THEM OFT ... - See Acts 22:19. AND COMPELLED THEM TO BLASPHEME - To blaspheme the name of Jesus by denying that he was the Messiah, and by admitting that he was an impostor. This was th...
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
PAUL SPEAKS BEFORE AGRIPPA. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even after t...
Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak on your own behalf." Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defence. "With regard to the charges made against me by the Jews, King Agrippa,...
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
I PUNISHED... AND. punishing them..., I. See Acts 22:5. IN. throughout. Greek. _kata._ App-104. SYNAGOGUE. App-120. COMPELLED. was compelling, or constraining, as in Acts 28:19. Greek. _anankazo._...
_And I punished them oft in every synagogue_ The Gk. continues with a participial construction, represented in _Rev. Ver._"and punishing … in all the synagogues." This closer representation of the ori...
ΚΑῚ ΚΑΤᾺ ΠΆΣΑΣ ΤᾺΣ ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓᾺΣ ΠΟΛΛΆΚΙΣ ΤΙΜΩΡΩ͂Ν ΑΥ̓ΤΟΎΣ, _and punishing them often in all the synagogues_. This shews how zealous Saul’s labours against the Way had been. Of the synagogues as places wh...
Acts 26:1-23. PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA...
_PAUL HUMBLY ADDRESSED AGRIPPA ACTS 26:1-11:_ Agrippa gave Paul permission to speak for himself. As Paul began his defense he stretched forth his hand. This action was designed to gain their attention...
ΚΑΤΆ ΠΆΣΑΣ ΤΆΣ ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓΆΣ из синагоги в синагогу. Распределительное значение предлога. О синагогах Иерусалима и Палестины _см._ Rainer Riesner, "Synagogues in Jerusalem" BAFCS, 4:179-211. ΤΙΜΩΡΏΝ _pra...
COMPELLED THEM TO BLASPHEME;— A known passage in Pliny, lib. 10: ep. 97 proves that the Heathen persecutors obliged Christians who fell under their trial, not only to renounce Christ, but also to curs...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
See notes on verse 9...
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. And I punished them oft in every synag...
1 King Agrippa was a notable figure throughout the closing period of Jewish national life. He was the last prince of the Herodian line. Unlike the Roman governors, who were frequently replaced and mos...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
COMPELLED THEM TO BLASPHEME. — The verb is in the imperfect tense, which may express either continued or incomplete action. It does not follow, therefore, that any of the believers yielded to the pres...
τιμωρῶν (_cf._ Acts 22:5), more usually in the middle voice in this sense, although the active is so used sometimes in classical Greek, Soph., _O. T._, 107, 140, Polyb., ii., 56, 15. For ecclesiastial...
PAUL PERMITTED TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF Acts 26:1 Though Paul's defense before Agrippa is in substance the same as that from the castle stairs at Jerusalem, it differs in the extended description of the...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Paul's Description of His Actions as a Persecutor When Paul took actions to stop the teachings about Jesus and His followers, he was directed by his conscience. Just as Agrippa's family had pursued an...
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and (e) compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities. (e) By extreme punishment....
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
AND I PUNISHED THEM OFT IN EVERY SYNAGOGUE,.... In Jerusalem, where there were many; Acts 24:12; by beating and scourging them there, as the manner was; see Matthew 10:17. AND COMPELLED THEM TO BLASP...
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled _them_ to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted _them_ even unto strange cities. Ver. 11. _Compelled them to blasph...
_Why should it be thought a thing incredible_ (It was thought so by Festus, Acts 25:19, to whom Paul answers as if he had heard him discourse;) _that God_ A Being of infinite perfections, and the orig...
AND I PUNISHED THEM OFT IN EVERY SYNAGOGUE, AND COMPELLED THEM TO BLASPHEME; AND BEING EXCEEDINGLY MAD AGAINST THEM, I PERSECUTED THEM EVEN UNTO STRANGE CITIES. Paul here makes a frank confession of h...
Paul's earlier position toward Jesus:...
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
THIS I ALSO DID IN JERUSALEM, AND MANY OF THE SAINTS I SHUT UP IN PRISON, HAVING RECEIVED AUTHORITY FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS; AND WHEN THEY WERE PUT TO DEATH, I CAST MY VOTE AGAINST THEM. 11 And I puni...
"And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues,. strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them,. persecuted them even unto foreign cities"And punishing them oftentimes in...
1-11 Christianity teaches us to give a reason of the hope that is in us, and also to give honour to whom honour is due, without flattery or fear of man. Agrippa was well versed in the Scriptures of t...
Paul confesses that he COMPELLED THEM TO BLASPHEME, either: 1. By the torments he made them to be put unto; or: 2. By his own example; for he confessed that he had been a blasphemer himself, 1 TIMOT...
Acts 26:11 And G2532 punished G5097 (G5723) them G846 often G4178 in G2596 every G3956 synagogue G4864 compelled...
“I truly thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, and this I also did in Jerusalem. And I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having receiv...
_Paul's Defence of Christianity before King Agrippa, his Sister, and the Procurator Festus,_ 1-23. This famous _apologia_ of St. Paul consists of four divisions. The first, Acts 26:2-3, consists of a...
Acts 26:11. AND I PUNISHED THEM OFT IN EVERY SYNAGOGUE, AND COMPELLED THEM TO BLASPHEME. This alludes, no doubt, not only to the many synagogues in Jerusalem (see chap. Acts 6:9, and note), but also t...
PUNISHING (τιμωρων). Old word τιμωρεω originally to render help, to succor (τιμωρος, from τιμη and ουρος), then to avenge (for honour). In N.T. only here and Acts 22:5.I STROVE TO MAKE THEM BLASPHE...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
I MYSELF THOUGHT. He shows his motivation as it had been when he persecuted the Christians. He did it, thinking that he honored God by doing it. I ALSO VOTED FOR IT. This may only mean that Paul appro...
_I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth._ ST. PAUL’S THOUGHT WITH HIMSELF 1. Emerson verily thought with himself that every subject was...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:9. Commences the second part of Paul’s apology. Paul would not despair of converting his countrymen from doubt to belief, since he himself had undergone a similar mental rev...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
2 Peter 2:16; Acts 13:45; Acts 18:6; Acts 22:19; Acts 26:24;...
I compelled them — That is, some of them; to blaspheme — This is the most dreadful of all! Repent, ye enemies of the Gospel. If Spira, who was compelled, suffered so terribly, what will become of thos...