Acts 19:18
What meaning of the acts 19:18 in the Bible?
What does Acts 19:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds."
What does Acts 19:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds."
THEIR DEEDS - Their actions; their evil course of life. The direct reference here is to the magical arts which had been used, but the word may also be designed to denote “iniquity” in general. They wh...
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...
CONFESSED. Compare Matthew 3:6. SHEWED. declared. See note on Acts 15:4. DEEDS. practices. Greek. _praxis._ Elsewhere, Matthew 16:27 (works). Luke 23:51.Romans 8:13; Romans 12:4 (office). Colossians...
_And many that believed_ i.e. who had made a profession of their faith. It was clearly as yet but an imperfect faith. The _Rev. Ver._" _had believed_" is the more correct tense. _came, and confessed_...
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...
ΠΕΠΙΣΤΕΥΚΌΤΩΝ _perf. act. part. (adj.)_, _см._ Acts 19:2. Part, в роли _subst. Perf._ указывает на состояние веры, ΉΡΧΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 19:6. _Impf._ изображает повторяющееся де...
DISCOURSE: 1795 GENUINE REPENTANCE Acts 19:18. _And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and turned...
AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME, &C.— Exorcisms and incantations had been very much practised at Ephesus: the Gentiles there imagined that Diana, or the moon, presided over their incantations; but upon th...
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....
18-20. The exposure of the seven exorcists reflected discredit upon all the pretenders to magic in Ephesus, while the name of Jesus was magnified. The effects upon the public mind were immense and ast...
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME, AND CONFESSED, AND SHEWED THEIR DEEDS....
18 Many believers still clung to their old practices, but when they found that the Lord was greater than the demons whom they feared, they abandoned their false arts. They gave up the scrolls which ta...
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 arri...
AND MANY THAT BELIEVED. — More accurately, _many of those that had believed._ The word is probably used, as in Acts 19:2, for the whole process of conversion, including baptism, confession in this ins...
πολλοί τε : the τε shows another immediate result in the fact that those who were already believers were now fully convinced of the pre-eminence of the name of Jesus, and were all the more filled with...
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...
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...
(5) And many that believed came, and (h) confessed, and shewed their deeds. (5) Conjuring and sorcery is condemned by open testimony, and by the authority of the apostle. (h) Confessed their errors,...
_Confessing and declaring their deeds, as penitents do in the sacrament of penance, and not only in general declaring or confessing themselves sinners. See Matthew iii. 6. (Witham)_...
_“And many of those having believed, came confessing and renouncing their practices.”_...
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...
− 18._Many which believed. _Luke bringeth forth one token of that fear whereof he spake. For they did indeed declare that they were thoroughly touched and moved with the fear of God, who, of their own...
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 MANY THAT BELIEVED,.... In Jesus Christ, whose name was spoken of with great respect, and which spread fear in every person: CAME; to the apostle: AND CONFESSED; their sins; and acknowledged wha...
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Ver. 18. _Confessed and showed their deeds_] With detestation, being moved thereto by the fear of God's judgments. This they did pu...
_And this_ Acknowledgment of the divine authority of Jesus and Paul, made in the absence of both; or this fact, concerning the possessed man, thus prevailing against the sons of Sceva; _was known to a...
CONFESSED; their former wicked deeds....
AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME AND CONFESSED, AND SHOWED THEIR DEEDS....
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...
AND MANY WHO HAD BELIEVED CAME CONFESSING AND TELLING THEIR DEEDS. 1. Now many believers realized that they had not fully left behind their pagan beliefs. 2. They came confessing their sins. They op...
"Many also of them that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds" Carefully note that Luke observes that Christians were not perfect. They had held on to some things from the past of...
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 hi...
MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME; that believed the power which God alone had over Satan, and were convinced of their sin and danger in being led captive by him. AND CONFESSED, AND SHOWED THEIR DEEDS; openly d...
18-20. The exposure of the seven exorcists reflected discredit upon all the pretenders to magic in Ephesus, while the name of Jesus was magnified. The effects upon the public mind were immense and ast...
Acts 19:18 And G5037 many G4183 believed G4100 (G5761) came G2064 (G5711) confessing G1843 (G5734) and G2532 telling G312 (G5723) their G846 deeds G4234 confessed - Leviticus 16:21, Leviticus 26:40;...
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 19:18. AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME, AND CONFESSED, AND SHOWED THEIR DEEDS. The ‘fear' of the Unseen came not only upon the superstitious idolaters of Ephesus, but, as in the case of Ananias and S...
CAME (ηρχοντο). Imperfect middle, kept coming, one after another. Even some of the believers were secretly under the spell of these false spiritualists just as some Christians today cherish private...
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...
ALL THE JEWS AND GENTILES. Ephesus was a center of magic and the black arts. This happening would have a strong effect on those who sold magic charms, etc., and would honor the Christ whom Paul preach...
_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...
1 John 1:9; Ezekiel 16:63; Ezekiel 36:31; Jeremiah 3:13; Job 33:27; Job 33:28; Leviticus 16:21; Leviticus 26:40; Matthew 3:6; Proverbs 28:13
Confessed and shewed [ε ξ ο μ ο λ ο γ ο υ μ ε ν ο ι κ α ι α ν α γ γ ε λ λ ο ν τ ε ς]. The two words denote the fullest and most open confession. They openly [ε ξ] confessed, and declared thoroughly (a...
Many came confessing — Of their own accord, and openly declaring their deeds — The efficacy of God's word, penetrating the inmost recesses of their soul, wrought that free and open confession to which...