George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 9:35
Saron, or Assaron, is a mountain and city mentioned by Josue, xii. 18. From it all the plain from Cæsarea of Palestine to Joppe, is called Saron. It is a rich fertile country. (Tirinus)
Saron, or Assaron, is a mountain and city mentioned by Josue, xii. 18. From it all the plain from Cæsarea of Palestine to Joppe, is called Saron. It is a rich fertile country. (Tirinus)
ACTS 9:35 Sarw/na The testimony of most early witnesses converges upon the spelling Sarw/na (î53, 74 (&rr& A) B C E). The scribes of î45 and of numerous minuscules (followed by the Textus Rece...
Verse 35. _ALL THAT DWELT IN LYDDA AND SARON SAW HIM_] Saron was that _champaign country_ that lay between Joppa and Lydda. The long _affliction_ of this man had been well known; and his _cure_, conse...
AND ALL - The mass, or body of the people. The affliction of the man had been long, and was probably well known; the miracle would be celebrated, and the effect was an extensive revival of religion. S...
CHAPTER 9 __ 1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1). 2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10). 3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is the Son...
Æ NEAS. His name shows him to have been probably a Hellenist. This story is modelled on that of the paralytic in Mark 2:1. Many of the words are the same; the case is similar, and only the command to...
In the course of a tour of the whole area, Peter came down to the saints who lived at Lydda. There he found a man called Aeneas who had been bed-ridden for eight years. He was paralysed. So Peter said...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
TURNED. See Acts 11:21; Acts 14:15; Acts 15:19; Acts 26:18; Acts 26:20....
_all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him_ No doubt his case of eight-years-long paralysis was well known to the dwellers in the village and neighbourhood, and to see such a one about in their midst...
ΚΑῚ ΕἾΔΑΝ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ, _and they all saw him_. No doubt his case of eight-years-long paralysis was well known to the dwellers in the village and neighbourhood, and to see such a one about in their m...
PETER HEALS A PARALYTIC AT LYDDA...
_THE MIRACLE AT LYDDA ACTS 9:32-35:_ While Peter was traveling from place to place preaching the gospel he came to Lydda. There he met Aeneas, a man that had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight yea...
ΕΊΔΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟΎΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part., см._ Acts 9:22. _Adj. part._ в роли _subst._ Sarwvn (G4565) (евр. רון®) Сарон, долина Сарон; прибрежная равнина, котора...
See notes on verse 32...
And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. AND ALL THAT DWELT IN LYDDA AND SARON, [ ton (G3588) Saroonan (G4565); or, according to the best manuscripts, Saroona (G4565)]...
30 Other details of Paul's stay in Jerusalem (not pertinent in this treatise) are interesting. Not only did the brethren lead him away, but the Lord Himself warned him to flee. While he was praying in...
9:35 who (a-11) 'Who also.' They did not merely witness the effect of power, but their seeing it acted on them....
SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN 1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
SARON] or, Sharon, is a very fruitful plain extending along the coast of the Mediterranean from Joppa to Carmel (1 Chronicles 27:29; Song of Solomon 2:1, etc.)....
Activity of Peter at Lydda and Joppa. 32. Throughout all _quarters_] or, 'throughout all the saints.' LYDDA] in the plain of Sharon, about 10 m. SE. of Joppa, on the way to Jerusalem....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9 V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples. He said that he would kill them. He...
ALL THAT DWELT AT LYDDA AND SARON. — The latter name indicates a district rather than a town. The presence of the article with it, and its absence from Lydda, indicates that men spoke of “_the_ Saron”...
_Healing of Aeneas_....
τὸν Σάρωνα, on accentuation see critical notes: “at Lydda and in Sharon,” R.V. _In_ Sharon, because it was not a town as Lydda, but rather a level tract, the maritime plain between Carmel and Joppa, s...
STRENGTH AND LIFE THROUGH CHRIST Acts 9:32-43 Peter was now free for a visit of apostolic inspection, of which the two incidents here preserved are the only record. Lydda was a village on the great p...
Opposition, the leader of which seems to have been Saul, continued. Armed with letters from the high priest, he attempted to put an end to the Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
The Growth of the Church and Two of Peter's Miracles After Saul went to Tarsus, Luke reported that a period of peace ensued during which the church in Judea, Galilee and Samaria was strengthened, walk...
And all that dwelt at (o) Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. (o) Lydda was a city of Palestine, and Saron a first-class country, and a place which was excellent for grazing, between Cae...
Here we find that the healing of Aeneas was wonderfully blessed of God in the awakening of the entire community, including the city of Lydda and the Plain of Sharon, extending from the sea back to the...
And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda. (33) And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight yea...
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...
35._And all those. _His meaning is, that the miracle was published abroad, and was known throughout the whole city. For when the Scripture saith _all_, it doth not comprehend every one how many so eve...
A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the scene. We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repelli...
AND ALL THAT DWELT AT LYDDA AND SARON,.... Saron, which is here joined to Lydda, is the name of a fruitful country on the borders of the Mediterranean sea, between Joppa and Caesarea, beginning at Lyd...
And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. Ver. 35. _And Saron_] Alias Assaron, the same perhaps with Acheron or Ekron, counted by the very heathens the devil's house; for...
_And as Peter passed through all quarters_ Where the disciples that were dispersed had planted churches; _he came to the saints that were at Lydda_ A town of Phœnicia, situated in the tribe of Ephraim...
SARON; a fruitful region between Joppa and mount Carmel, called in the Old Testament Sharon. 1 Chronicles 5:16; 1 Chronicles 27:29; ISAIAH 33:9;...
And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. It seems to have been the custom of the apostles to visit new sections of the field that were opened, new congregations that were...
TWO MIRACLES PERFORMED BY PETER. Peter at Lydda:...
Philip the evangelist is now put in the background, as the Spirit of God begins a work of another kind, using a most unexpected workman. Saul was filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
SO ALL WHO DWELT AT LYDDA AND SHARON SAW HIM AND TURNED TO THE LORD. 1. All in the area of Lydda, and the next town of Sharon - saw the miracle. 2. The turned to the Lord. Like in Acts 8:1-40 - they...
"And all that dwelt at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord"Sharon" "Was the coastal plain, about 30 miles long extending from Mt. Carmel on the North to Joppa on the South" (Reese...
32-35 Christians are saints, or holy people; not only the eminent ones, as Saint Peter and Saint Paul, but every sincere professor of the faith of Christ. Christ chose patients whose diseases were in...
LYDDA: see ACTS 9:32. SARON is the name of a city, 1 CHRONICLES 5:16, but here it is rather the name of a country, (which the masculine article usually shows), lying between Mount Tabor and the lake o...
Acts 9:35 So G2532 all G3956 dwelt G2730 (G5723) Lydda G3069 and G2532 Sharon G4565 saw G1492 ...
‘And all that dwelt at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.' And the result was that the people of Lydda and in the plain of Sharon round about responded almost as one, and turne...
PETER HEALS A PARALYSED MAN AND MINISTERS IN LYDDA (9:32-35). In Acts 2-3 the coming of the life of God and of the Risen Jesus to His people is followed by the ministry to ‘the lame'. Here that sequen...
Acts 9:35. SARON. The Old Testament' Sharon,' that beautiful plain extending along the coast of Palestine for some thirty miles between Joppa and Cæsarea. Its singular beauty and fertility are frequen...
SHARON (Σαρωνα). The Plain of Sharon, not a town. Thirty miles long from Joppa to Caesarea....
CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised from the dead. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
Acts 9:1. _Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord._ Not less than two thousand of them, who fell in this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
LIVING IN LYDDA AND SHARON. Sharon is mentioned in Song of Solomon 2:1. "All the people" means there was a general "turning to the Lord....
_And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda._ LYDDA The Lud of the Old Testament (1 Chronicles 8:12; Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37;...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:35 SHARON referred to the whole coastal plain north of Lydda. ⇐ ⇔
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:32. LYDDA.—The Old Testament Lod (Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:35; 1 Chronicles 8:12), now called Lucid.
EXPOSITION ACTS 9:1 _But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.; _threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
1 Chronicles 5:16; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 3:16;...
Saron. Rev., properly, Sharon. Always with the definite article : the plain; extending thirty miles along the sea from Joppa to Caesarea....
SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY 1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road is as vital a pa...
AMONG THE CHURCHES Acts 9:31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS For the while we turn from Saul and the record of his ministry, and we return to the early Church and her dominant figure, Peter. We ask your attenti...
Lydda was a large town, one day's journey from Jerusalem. It stood in the plain or valley of Sharon, which extended from Cesarea to Joppa, and was noted for its fruitfulness....