(9) And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide [there]. And she constrained us.
(9) An example of a godly housewife.
ACTS 16:15 o` oi=koj The Western text characteristically expands the narrative by adding pa/j before o` oi=koj (D; compare _cum omnibus suis,_ itgig)....
Verse Acts 16:15. _IF YE HAVE JUDGED ME TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD_] The meaning seems to be this: If my present reception of the Gospel of Christ be a proof to you that I have been faithful to the L...
AND WHEN SHE WAS BAPTIZED - Apparently without any delay. Compare Acts 2:41; Acts 8:38. It was usual to be baptized immediately on believing. AND HER HOUSEHOLD - Greek: her house ὁ οἶκος ἀυτῆς ho...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe ...
PHILIPPI. LYDIA. The voyage from Troas to Samothrace was past Tenedos and Imbros, and Samothrace was about halfway. The voyage back took five days (Acts 20:6); this voyage only two, the wind being fav...
When we had set sail from Troas we had a straight run to Samothrace. On the next day we reached Neapolis and from there we came to Philippi which is the chief city of that section of Macedonia and a R...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
BAPTIZED. App-115. BESOUGHT. Greek. _parakaleo._ App-134. JUDGED. Greek. _krino._ App-122. FAITHFUL. Greek. _pistos._ App-150. ABIDE. Greek. _meno._ See p. 1511. CONSTRAINED. Greek. _parabiazomai...
_and her household_ Of a like baptizing of a household see below (Acts 16:33), and also cp. Acts 11:14. We are not justified in concluding from these passages that infants were baptized. "Household" m...
ΚΑῚ Ὁ ΟἾΚΟΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΗ͂Σ, _and her household_. Of a like baptizing of a household see below (Acts 16:33), and also cf. Acts 11:14. We are not justified in concluding from these passages that infants were b...
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA. A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE A...
_THE CONVERSION OF A GOOD WOMAN NAMED LYDIA ACTS 16:13-15:_ On the Sabbath the missionary team went out by the river to a place of prayer and talked to the women there. This was a simple place of wors...
ΈΒΑΠΤΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ (G907) крестить, Ό ΟΊΚΟΣ ΑΥΤΉΣ (G3624; G846) ее дом. В число ее домашних, вероятно, входили слуги и прочие работники, возможно, некоторые из женщин, о которых го...
DISCOURSE: 1785 THE CONVERSION OF LYDIA Acts 16:14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she...
AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40 a. A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12. Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in...
See notes on verse 13...
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. AND WHEN SHE WAS...
40 Silas was almost necessary as a companion for Paul. The decrees provided that they should be delivered by both Barnabas and Paul, while Judas and Silas were to confirm them by word of mouth. Now th...
HER HOUSEHOLD] the expression includes servants and slaves as well as children. Other examples of the baptism of households are Acts 16:33; Acts 18:8; 1 Corinthians 1:16 : see on...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
AND WHEN SHE WAS BAPTIZED, AND HER HOUSEHOLD. — It does not follow from St. Luke’s condensed narrative that all this took place on the same day. The statement that “her household” were baptised has of...
ὁ οἶκος : as in the case of Cornelius, so here, the household is received as one into the fold of Christ, _cf._ Acts 16:33 and Acts 18:8. We cannot say whether children or not were included, although...
WELCOMED; ATTESTED; IMPRISONED Acts 16:14 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gospel which was to transform Europe. The need for it was uns...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
The Conversion of Lydia It customarily took ten Jewish heads of households to form a synagogue within a community. In Philippi, there was just a group of Jewish women who met by the riverside for pray...
Hence Lydia the preacher and her family, having joyfully confessed Jesus their Savior in baptism, open wide their doors and welcome these four evangelists to make their house their home....
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul....
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...
_THE RELIGION OF THE HEART_ ‘Whose heart the Lord opened.’ Acts 16:14 These words have not been selected with a view to dwell upon the incident with which they stand connected, full though it be of...
− 15._When she was baptized. _Hereby it appeareth how effectually God wrought in Lydia even in a short moment. For it is not to be doubted but that she received and embraced the faith of Christ sincer...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
AND WHEN SHE WAS BAPTIZED,.... In water, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, according to the commission of Christ, by the apostle, or some one of his companions; by whom she was instructe...
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought _us_, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide _there_. And she constrained us. Ver. 15. _If y...
_On the sabbath we went out of the city_ The Jews usually held their religious assemblies (either by choice or constraint) at a distance from the heathen; _by a river side_ The river Strymon, which ra...
AND WHEN SHE WAS BAPTIZED AND HER HOUSEHOLD, SHE BESOUGHT US, SAYING, IF YE HAVE JUDGED ME TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD, COME INTO MY HOUSE, AND ABIDE THERE. AND SHE CONSTRAINED US. In the audience on t...
The conversion of Lydia:...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
AND WHEN SHE AND HER HOUSEHOLD WERE BAPTIZED, SHE BEGGED _US,_ SAYING, " IF YOU HAVE JUDGED ME TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD, COME TO MY HOUSE AND STAY. " SO SHE PERSUADED US. 1. We are not given the de...
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6-15 The removals of ministers, and the dispensing the means of grace by them, are in particular under Divine conduct and direction. We must follow Providence: and whatever we seek to do, if that suf...
AND HER HOUSEHOLD; when Lydia had right to baptism, by reason of her faith in Jesus Christ, all her family, whom she could undertake to bring up in the knowledge of Christ, were admitted to that ordin...
Acts 16:15 And G1161 when G5613 and G2532 her G846 household G3624 baptized G907 (G5681) begged G3870 ...
‘And when she was baptised, and her household, she besought us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.” And she constrained us.' ‘And when she...
MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description of P...
THE MISSION TO EUROPE (16:6-19:20). Paul's plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he was first hindered from going one way, and then anoth...
Acts 16:15. AND WHEN SHE WAS BAPTIZED, AND HER HOUSEHOLD. This passage has been a little hastily quoted in support of ‘infant baptism.' It is, however, quite uncertain whether, by the words ‘and her h...
AND WHEN SHE WAS BAPTIZED (ως δε εβαπτισθη). First aorist passive indicative of βαπτιζω. The river Gangites was handy for the ordinance and she had now been converted and was ready to make this pub...
Acts 16:14 The Conversion of Lydia. I. Lydia was listening: "And a certain woman named Lydia, heard us." Great stress is laid in the Bible on hearing: "Faith cometh by hearing." II. Lydia listened a...
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
TO THE RIVERSIDE. The Gangas, a small river. A Jewish place for prayer. Evidently, there was no synagogue. A few devout Jews, mostly women, met on the river banks to worship God. And talked to the wom...
_She was baptized and her household._ INFANT BAPTISM I. Although from the earliest days infant baptism has been practised, there are some who deny its scriptural authority. 1. At first sight their p...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:15 Lydia’s HOUSEHOLD likely included servants as well. Her house eventually became the gathering place for Christians (v. Acts 16:40)....
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:14. LYDIA.—“Certainly a proper name, not a patronymic” (Zöckler). “She had probably become addicted to Jewish religious practices in her native city” (Ramsay). THYATIRA.—A...
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
1 Corinthians 1:13; 1 Peter 5:12; 1 Samuel 28:23; 2 Corinthians 12:11;...
Constrained [π α ρ ε β ι α σ α τ ο]. Only here and Luke 24:29, on which see note. The constraint was from ardent gratitude....
She was baptized and her family — Who can believe that in so many families there was no infant? Or that the Jews, who were so long accustomed to circumcise their children, would not now devote them to...