ACTS 19:22-26 In these verses various witnesses of the Western text incorporate a variety of picturesque details. After cro,non in ver. Acts 19:22 the Greek text of codex Bezae adds ovli,gon...
Verse Acts 19:23. _NO SMALL STIR ABOUT THAT WAY._] Concerning the _Gospel_, which the apostles preached; and which is termed _this way_, Acts 9:2, where see the note....
NO SMALL STIR - No little excitement, disturbance, or tumult τάραχος tarachos. Compare Acts 17:4. “About that way.” Respecting the doctrines of Christianity which Paul preached. See the notes on Acts...
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...
TUMULT AT EPHESUS. A change of religion (for the Way, _cf. Acts 9:2_) bears hardly on certain trades. In ch. 16 the Gospel interfered with the trade of soothsaying; here the art of the silversmith suf...
It happened that at this time there was a great disturbance about The Way. A certain man called Demetrius, who was a silversmith and who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought very considerable profi...
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....
THE SAME TIME. at (Greek. _kata._ App-104.) that season. STIR. See note on Acts 12:18. ABOUT. concerning. Greek. _peri._ App-104....
Heathen Outbreak against St Paul and his Teaching 23. _And the same time_ Literally, _And about that time_. There is some gain in accuracy of rendering of these connecting phrases. The literal renderi...
ΚΑΤᾺ ΤῸΝ ΚΑΙΡῸΝ ἘΚΕΙ͂ΝΟΝ, _about that time_. This is better than A.V. ‘the same time,’ and there is some gain in accuracy of rendering of these connecting phrases. The literal rendering allows of the...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
_DEMETRIUS CAUSED A RIOT IN EPHESUS ACTS 19:21-34:_ Paul planned to go to Macedonia, Achaia, Jerusalem, and then to also see Rome. Christianity (That Way) is always in conflict with the evils of the w...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 19:1, Luke 8:1. ΤΆΡΑΧΟΣ (G5017) беспокойство, мятеж, волнение. Описание подобных беспокойств в античном мире _см._ в Trebilco, "Asia" BAFCS, 2:338-42....
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....
23-27. (23) "_Now, about that period, there arose no small stir concerning the way._ (24) _For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, brought no little employment to the artisans by making silv...
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...
19:23 way. (b-13) See Note, ch. 9.2....
THAT WAY] i.e. Christianity (Acts 9:2, etc.)....
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 arr...
ABOUT THAT WAY. — Better, as before, _the way._ (See Note on Acts 9:2.)...
CHAPTER 15 THE EPHESIAN RIOT AND A PRUDENT TOWN CLERK. Acts 19:23 ST. PAUL'S labours at Ephesus covered, as he informs us himself, when addressing the elders of that city, a space of three years. Th...
ἐγένετο δὲ : on the frequency of the formula in Luke's writings see Friedrich, p. 13, and above on Acts 4:5. τάραχος οὐκ ὀλίγος : the same phrase as in Acts 12:18, nowhere else in N.T., for οὐκ ὀλίγος...
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 s...
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...
The Riot in Ephesus While Timothy and Erastus were away, a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made shrines of Diana, or Artemis, began to stir people up against Christianity. He called together th...
(7) And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. (7) Gain cloaked with a show of religion is the very cause why idolatry is strongly and stubbornly defended....
_About the way of the Lord; that is, about Christian faith, and religion. (Witham) --- A great source of these troubles that ensued, was the preaching the gospel._...
After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. (22) So he sent...
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...
− 23._Tumult about that way. _Concerning this word _way, _let the readers understand thus much, that it is here taken for that which the Latins call _sect; _the Greek philosophers call it _heresies _o...
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 THE SAME TIME THERE AROSE NO SMALL STIR ABOUT THAT WAY. The Syriac version reads, "the way of God"; and the Vulgate Latin version, "the way of the Lord": that is, the Christian religion, and the d...
And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. Ver. 23. _No small stir_] Covetousness, as itself is idolatry, so it upholds idolatry. (as here) under a pretext of piety. _Deos quisqus si...
_The same time there arose no small stir_ Ταραχος ουκ ολιγος, _no small tumult, about that way_ The way of worshipping God, and securing a happy immortality, which Paul taught. _For Demetrius, a silve...
THAT WAY; the way of salvation through Jesus Christ....
AND THE SAME TIME THERE AROSE NO SMALL STIR ABOUT THAT WAY....
The speech of Demetrius:...
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 ABOUT THAT TIME THERE AROSE A GREAT COMMOTION ABOUT THE WAY. 1. A great commotion - The KJV says, "no small stir". This is Luke's usual manner to state the opposite. "Not a few" actually means th...
21-31 Persons who came from afar to pay their devotions at the temple of Ephesus, bought little silver shrines, or models of the temple, to carry home with them. See how craftsmen make advantage to t...
AND THE SAME TIME; when all things seemed to have been quiet: so uncertain are the servants of Christ to have any quiet here. THAT WAY; the doctrine of the gospel, as ACTS 18:25....
23-27. (23) "_ Now, about that period, there arose no small stir concerning the way._ (24) _For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, brought no little employment to the artisans by making sil...
Acts 19:23 And G1161 G2596 that G1565 time G2540 arose G1096 (G5633) great G3756 G3641 commotion...
A STIRRING IN EPHESUS ON ACCOUNT OF THE NAME OF ARTEMIS (19:23-41). In considering what follows we should note two things about its context: · Firstly that it introduces the final section of Acts (Ac...
‘And about that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.' It was at this stage, as his successful ministry in Ephesus was coming to an end, that a crisis came that may even have threatened h...
PAUL'S JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM AND THEN TO ROME (19:21-28:31). Here we begin a new section of Acts. It commences with Paul's purposing to go to Jerusalem, followed by an incident, which, while it brings...
Acts 19:23. NO SMALL STIR ABOUT THAT WAY. ‘ The way' seems to have been a term in the Christian phraseology of the first days used familiarly as a term signifying the disciples of Christ (see chap. Ac...
NO SMALL STIR (ταραχος ουκ ολιγος). Same phrase in Acts 12:18 and nowhere else in the N.T. Litotes.CONCERNING THE WAY (περ της οδου). See this phrase for Christianity in Acts 9:2; Acts 19:9;...
ABOUT THE WAY Concerning the Way, that is, Christ. (John 14:6)....
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...
THAT THERE WAS SERIOUS TROUBLE. Things had been peaceful up to now. Notice trouble starts from a Gentile source. MADE SILVER MODELS OF THE TEMPLE. The temple of Artemis [Diana] was one of the wonders...
_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...
_There arose no small stir about that way._ STIR ABOUT THE WAY There is no new thing under the sun. Wherever the gospel is preached in its power and purity there has always been no small stir about...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:23 THE WAY refers to followers of Christ. See note on 9:1–2. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:23. THE WAY.—See on Acts 9:2. Acts 19:24. DEMETRIUS.—The name has been found in an inscription, exhumed in Ephesus and supposed (Hicks) to belong to A.D. 50–60, recording a...
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...
2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 6:9; Acts 18:26; Acts 19:9; Acts 22:4
The way. See on ch. Acts 9:2....