George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 9:43
In the Greek is added: instructing the new converts, and fortifying them in the faith they had just embraced.
In the Greek is added: instructing the new converts, and fortifying them in the faith they had just embraced.
ACTS 9:43 h`me,raj i`kana.j mei/nai There are three variant readings: h`me,raj i`kana.j mei/nai (î53 a* B 3 209* 216 1175 1739 geo), auvto.n h`me,raj i`kana.j mei/nai (î74...
Verse Acts 9:43. _HE TARRIED MANY DAYS IN JOPPA_] Taking advantage of the good impression made on the people's minds by the miracle, he preached to them the great truths of Christianity, and thus esta...
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...
DORCAS. This story is like that of the raising of Jairus-' daughter (Mark 5:22; Mark 5:35; Luke 8:41 f., Luke 8:49). Tabitha (in Gr. _Dorcas,_ Eng. Gazelle;
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)...
TARRIED. abode. Greek. _meno._ See note on p. 1511. ONE. a certain. Greek. _tis._ App-123. TANNER. Greek. _burseus._ Only here and Acts 10:6; Acts 10:32. Perhaps no one else would receive him....
_he tarried many days_ On the indefinite nature of the time indicated here see above, Acts 9:23, note. _with one Simon a tanner_ The trade of a tanner was held as abominable by the Jews. A wife, it is...
ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ἹΚΑΝΆΣ. On the indefinite nature of the length of time indicated here, see Acts 9:23, note. ΠΑΡΆ ΤΙΝΙ ΣΊΜΩΝΙ ΒΥΡΣΕΙ͂, _with one Simon a tanner_. The trade of a tanner was held as abominable by...
DORCAS RAISED TO LIFE. PETER’S STAY AT JOPPA...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 9:3; о семитском обороте _см._ Acts 9:32. ΜΕΪ́ΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) оставаться. _Inf._ с гл. ΒΥΡΣΕΪ́ _dat. sing. от_ ΒΥΡΣΕΎΣ (G1038) кожевни...
AND IT WAS KNOWN THROUGHOUT ALL JOPPA;— The report of this miracle swiftly spread throughout all Joppa: upon which _Simon,_ the _son of Jonas,_ became more famous there than _Jonas_ himself had been;...
AT JOPPA. Acts 9:36-43. Acts 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. A...
43. Peter was engaged, at this time, in general evangelizing among the Jews, adapting his stay at a given point, and his change of place, to the exigencies of the cause. The restoration of Dorcas, dou...
And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner. AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT HE TARRIED MANY DAYS IN JOPPA - no doubt taking advantage of the opening for His Master's...
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...
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....
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...
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...
MANY DAYS IN JOPPA WITH ONE SIMON A TANNER. — Either as bringing with it, through contact with the carcases and hides of dead beasts, the risks of ceremonial defilement, or being generally a repulsive...
ἐγένετο δὲ, see on Acts 9:37, Plummer, _St. Luke_, p. 45, on the use of ἐγένετο. The phrase also marks (as often in Luke) a transition to the following narrative (Nösgen). ἡμέρας ἱκανὰς, see on Acts 8...
_Tabitha raised from the dead_....
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...
REFLECTIONS Pause, my soul, over the several miracles recorded in this chapter, and behold the wonders connected with the event of Christ tabernacling in the flesh! All, and every circumstance, which...
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did. (37) And it came to pass in those day...
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...
43.When as he saith that Peter dwelt with a tanner, we may hereby gather of what manner of men the church of Joppa did consist, for if the chieftains of the city had been converted to Christ, some one...
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 IT CAME TO PASS,.... Or so it was; THAT HE TARRIED MANY DAYS IN JOPPA; conversing with the saints, confirming the disciples, and preaching the Gospel, to the conversion of sinners; and his abode...
And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner. Ver. 43. _With one Simon a tanner_] Of mean rank and despicable, but religious and hospitable. Of such, and not of gre...
_And it was known_, &c. The report of this wonderful miracle was immediately spread _throughout all Joppa_ And it being a town of seafaring men, the story of it would soon be carried from thence to ma...
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT HE TARRIED MANY DAYS IN JOPPA WITH ONE SIMON, A TANNER. Peter may well have stayed at Lydda for some time, confirming the disciples and establishing the congregation. But he w...
The miracle at Joppa:...
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 IT WAS THAT HE STAYED MANY DAYS IN JOPPA WITH SIMON, A TANNER. 1. Peter remains now with the saints in Joppa. 2. He stays with a leather tanner, named Simon. 3. NOTE : Simon (Hebrew) and Peter ...
Therefore Stand. pp. 413,414. Acts 9:1 Bakers Bible Atlas p. 202...
36-43 Many are full of good words, who are empty and barren in good works; but Tabitha was a great doer, no great talker. Christians who have not property to give in charity, may yet be able to do ac...
The miracle had only prepared them to receive his doctrine, which Peter tarried some time with them to instruct them in: the miracle had prepared the ground, and now he takes this season to sow the se...
43. Peter was engaged, at this time, in general evangelizing among the Jews, adapting his stay at a given point, and his change of place, to the exigencies of the cause. The restoration of Dorcas, dou...
Acts 9:43 So G1161 was G1096 (G5633) he G846 stayed G3306 (G5658) many G2425 days G2250 in...
PETER AND CORNELIUS (9:43-10:48). It is difficult for us to appreciate the huge step that is now about to be described. To us it may all seem like a great fuss about nothing. But it was bringing abou...
‘And it came about that he abode many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.' The account is introduced by this indication of the whereabouts of Peter. It is significant in itself. No tanner would be...
PETER RAISES THE DEAD AND MINISTERS IN JOPPA (9:36-43). But the new ministry offered not only healing but life. In the bringing of the Good News the life of God has been made available for the people...
MANY DAYS (ημερας ικανας). See on verse Acts 9:23. Luke is fond of the phrase and uses it for time, number, size. It might be "ten days, ten months, or ten years" (Page).WITH ONE SIMON A TANNER (π...
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...
THE NEWS ABOUT THIS. This sort of thing "advertised" Christianity! PETER STAYED ON IN JOPPA. For perhaps a year. Joppa was a large city, and there were many people to hear the Good News. Peter is at t...
_Now there was at Joppa._ JOPPA OR YAFA MEANS BEAUTY The modern name is Jaffa or Yafa. It is a seaport town of Palestine, about forty miles northwest of Jerusalem, of which city it was the port in th...
_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 9:43 As a TANNER, SIMON worked with animal hides. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:36. JOPPA, or _Japho_ (Jonah 1:3), in Assyrian inscriptions Ja-ap-pu; at the present day, Jaffa or Jâfa, meaning “the beautiful,” or, according to another derivation, “the he...
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...
Acts 10:32; Acts 10:6...
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...