Acts 8:28
What meaning of the acts 8:28 in the Bible?
What does Acts 8:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet."
What does Acts 8:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet."
Verse Acts 8:28. _SITTING IN HIS CHARIOT, READ ESAIAS THE PROPHET._] He had gone to Jerusalem to worship: he had profited by his religious exercises: and even in travelling, he is improving his time....
AND, SITTING IN HIS CHARIOT - His carriage; his vehicle. The form of the carriage is not known. In some instances the carriages of the ancients were placed on wheels; in others were borne on poles, in...
PART II The Witness to Samaria. Saul's Conversion and Peter's Witness in Caesarea. Chapter s 8-12 CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The first great persecution (Acts 8:1)._ 2. The preaching of the scattered believ...
PHILIP AND THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH. Philip appears again; we are not told where, but the instruction given him by the angel shows that he was not at Jerusalem; he is to go southward (_mg._ at noon; not s...
THE FIRST OF THE MARTYRS (Acts 7:54-60 ; Acts 8:1) 8:1 As they listened to this their very hearts were torn with vexation and they gnashed their teeth at him. But he was full of the Holy Spirit and h...
IN. upon. Greek. _epi_. App-104....
_was returning_ The original has a conjunction, "_and_was returning," i.e. at the termination of the feast. _read Esaias_[Isaiah] _the prophet_ He was evidently reading aloud (see Acts 8:30), and this...
PHILIP BAPTIZES AN ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH...
_CHRIST IS PREACHED TO AN ETHIOPIAN ACTS 8:27-35:_ This account is the story of a preacher (Philip) and a sinner (the Ethiopian). When God said “go,” Philip went to do the will of the Heavenly Father....
ΎΠΟΣΤΡΈΦΩΝ _praes. act. part., см._ Acts 8:25. Part, в перифр. обороте (VA, 461), или просто описательное _adj._ (Barrett), ΚΑΘΉΜΈΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΚΆΘΗΜΑΙ (G2521) сидеть, ΆΡΜΑ (G716...
A MAN OF ETHIOPIA, AN EUNUCH, &C.— A certain _Ethiopian eunuch, a grandee of Candace,_ &c. See the note on Genesis 37:36. It appears that _Candace_ was a name common to several of the queens who reign...
D. THE LATER WORK OF PHILIP. Acts 8:26-40. 1. ON THE ROAD FROM JERUSALEM TO GAZA. Acts 8:26-39. Acts 8:26 But an angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto t...
See notes on verse 27...
Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. WAS RETURNING. Having come so far, he not only stayed out the days of the festival, but prolonged his stay until now. It says muc...
26 It is notable that the messenger, or angel, who spoke to Philip is also called "the spirit" (29) and "the spirit of the Lord" (39). This suggests that these expressions may refer to created beings...
PHILIP IN SAMARIA. SIMON MAGUS The graphic details of the ministry of Philip which follow, were doubtless obtained from Philip himself. St. Luke stayed at his house at Cæsarea, and made the acquainta...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 SAUL *PERSECUTES THE CHRISTIANS, 8:1-4 V1 Saul approved of Stephen’s murder. That same day, the Christians in *Jerusalem suffered very much. A...
SITTING IN HIS CHARIOT READ ESAIAS THE PROPHET. — After the manner of most Eastern nations, to whom silent reading is almost unknown, the eunuch was reading aloud. Philip heard him, and so gained an o...
CHAPTER 20 EVANGELISTIC WORK IN THE PHILISTINES' LAND. Acts 8:26; Acts 9:32 I HAVE; united these two incidents, the conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch and the mission of St. Peter to the people of L...
ἄρματος : the chariot was regarded as a mark of high rank: very frequent word in LXX, but in N.T. only here, and in Revelation 9:9; cf. Revelation 18:13. “Chariot,” Hastings' B.D., properly in classic...
WINNING A TRAVELER Acts 8:26-40 From the great city revival in Samaria Philip was led to the desert to minister to one seeking soul. It seems strange that God should be able to spare him from his bu...
The popular outburst against Christianity evidenced in the martyrdom of Stephen was general. Members of the Church at Jerusalem were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. How dark the day seemed to...
Preaching to the Ethiopian At this point, Luke told Theophilus that Philip was directed by an angel of the Lord to go south to a place along the Jerusalem to Gaza road where no people lived. When an...
THE CONVERSION OF THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH 26-40. After the apostles have completed their Samaritan tour and returned to Jerusalem, leaving Philip surrounded by hosts of his converts pressing the battle,...
And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. (27) And he arose and went: and, behold, a m...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
28._He read Esaias. _The reading of the prophet showeth that the eunuch did not worship a God unadvisedly, according to the understanding of his own head, whom he had reigned to himself, but whom he k...
Saul was present at Stephen's death, and consenting to it. [14] This is the end of the first phase of the assembly of God its history in immediate connection with Jerusalem and the Jews, as the centre...
WAS RETURNING,.... From Jerusalem, having finished the parts of divine worship he came to perform; and it is remarkable, that though he must doubtless have heard of Jesus of Nazareth, and what had pas...
Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. Ver. 28. _Sitting in his chariot, read_] Time is to be redeemed for holy uses. Pliny seeing his nephew walking for his pleasure, cal...
_And_ After the important affairs above mentioned were despatched at Samaria, and a church was established there, and supplied with proper pastors and teachers; _the angel of the Lord spake unto Phili...
THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH. The divine commission to Philip:...
As a wild beast tasting blood, the Jews were the more inflamed by the martyrdom of Stephen to greatly persecute the Church of God at Jerusalem. For this reason believers were scattered through Judea a...
WAS RETURNING. AND SITTING IN HIS CHARIOT, HE WAS READING ISAIAH THE PROPHET. 1. Now he is on his long journey back to Ethiopia. 2. He is reading from Isaiah. 3. There is some dispute concerning th...
and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. 'RETURNING'-Heading back home. 'SITTING IN HIS CHARIOT'-We are told later that this chariot had. driver (Acts 8:3...
26-40 Philip was directed to go to a desert. Sometimes God opens a door of opportunity to his ministers in very unlikely places. We should study to do good to those we come into company with by trave...
He had some knowledge of the true God, whom he came to worship, and he endeavours after more: and to him that thus hath, shall be given; and they that thus seek, shall find. God will rather work a mir...
Tertullian On Baptism [186]...
Acts 8:28 G5037 was G2258 (G5713) returning G5290 (G5723) And G2532 sitting G2521 (G5740) in G1909 his G846 chariot G716 G2532 reading G314 (G5707) Isaiah G2268 prophet G4396 and sitting - Acts 17:11...
THE MINISTRY OF PHILIP TO THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH (8:26-39). Meanwhile God was now satisfied that the Samaritan church was sufficiently equipped to carry on and He calls Philip elsewhere to where there...
Acts 8:28. READ ESAIAS THE PROPHET. He was returning home, deeply impressed with the sanctuary, the wonders of which he had just been beholding, and whose strange, glorious history had so deeply inter...
WAS READING (ανεγινωσκεν). Imperfect active descriptive, not periphrastic like the two preceding verbs (was returning and sitting). He was reading aloud as Philip "heard him reading" (ηκουσεν αυτον...
Stephen had been stoned to death; but with his latest breath he prayed for his murderers. Then this chapter begins: Acts 8:1. _And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a gre...
CONTENTS: Saul persecuting Christians. The first missionaries. The case of Simon, the sorcerer. Philip and the Ethiopian. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Saul, Stephen, Philip, Simon, apostles,...
Acts 8:1. _At that time there was a great persecution against the church._ With regard to this very tremendous storm which suddenly burst on the infant church, Cardinal Baronius, in his Ecclesiastical...
NOW AN ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH. Ethiopia was the part of Africa south of Egypt. It was common in the East to _"desex"_ strong, intelligent young men, and train them for positions of leadership. This "mutilat...
_And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go._ MAN VERSUS ANGEL Why didn’t the angel go himself? Because this was a mission where a man was worth more than an angel. In the Lo...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 8:18. AND WHEN SIMON SAW.—Most likely through hearing the baptised speak with tongues. HE OFFERED THEM MONEY.—From Simon’s name and proposal arose the expression “Simony” for...
EXPOSITION ACTS 8:1 _There arose on that day _for _at that time there was, _A.V._; in _for _at, _A.V. SAUL WAS CONSENTING TO HIS DEATH. St. Paul's repeated reference to this sad episode in his life i...
We are introduced now to one of the chief persecutors. A zealous young Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, whose name is Saul. And he was standing by, consenting to the death of Stephen, holding the coa...
2 Timothy 3:15; Acts 17:11; Acts 17:12; Acts 28:25; Colossians 3:16; Deuteronomy 11:18; Deuteronomy 17:18; Deuteronomy 17:19; Deuteronomy 6:6;...
THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH Acts 8:26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The subject of our sermon today, is "The Ethiopian Eunuch." There is a wonderful vision of God given in the 68th Psalm. After the Prophet has ascri...
Sitting in his chariot, he read the Prophet Isaiah — God meeteth those that remember him in his ways. It is good to read, hear, seek information even in a journey. Why should we not redeem all our tim...