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Acts 16:20
and brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
and brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
Verse Acts 16:20. _BROUGHT THEM TO THE MAGISTRATES_] στρατηγοις, _The_ _commanders of the army_, who, very likely, as this city was a Roman colony, possessed the sovereign authority. The _civil magis...
AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE MAGISTRATES - To the military rulers στρατηγοῖς stratēgois or praetors. Philippi was a Roman colony, and it is probable that the officers of the army exercised the double fun...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe ...
IMPRISONMENT OF PAUL AND SILAS. THE PRISON BROKEN. The rulers (Acts 16:19) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called _Strategi, which_ answers to the Roman _Prœ tores._ Philippi was a colony...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
When we were on our way to the place of prayer.. it happened that a certain slave-girl who had a spirit which made her able to give oracles met us. By her soothsaying she provided much gain for her ow...
BROUGHT. Greek. _prosago._ Only here, Acts 27:27; Luke 9:41; 1 Peter 3:18. MAGISTRATES. These were Romans. Greek. _strategos._ Showing Luke's accuracy. The magistrates of this colony bore the same tit...
_and brought them to the magistrates_ These _strategoi_were the _duumviri_, the two _praetors_specially appointed to preside over the administration of justice, in cases where there was no appeal to R...
ΠΡΟΣΑΓΑΓΌΝΤΕΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΟῪΣ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΙ͂Σ, _having brought them to the magistrates_. These στρατηγοί were the _duumviri_, the two _prætors_ specially appointed to preside over the administration of just...
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA. A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE A...
_THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILER IN PHILIPPI ACTS 16:16-40:_ At a place of prayer in Philippi Paul and Silas came across a girl that had a spirit of divination. Her masters made a lot of money from her p...
ΠΡΟΣΑΓΑΓΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΆΓΩ (G4317) приводить к кому-л. ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΌΣ (G4755) полководец, генерал, городской чиновник. Автор использует самый распространенный эллинистический титул...
UNTO THE RULERS,— The word στρατηγοι, made use of in the 20th verse, denotes with the Greeks _Roman_ praetors; and if it was applied to the _Duumviri,_ who were the governors of colonies, it was by wa...
AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40 a. A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12. Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in...
See notes on verse 19...
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE MAGISTRATES, [ strateegois (G4755)] - the Duumviri, who in the colonies...
19 This is the first occasion in which the evangel comes into conflict with the religion of the nations and with the spirit powers back of it. Hitherto the Jews and Judaism opposed the evangel. At Lys...
16:20 praetors, (c-8) The magistrates of colonies. so vers. 36,38. too...
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
MAGISTRATES] At Philippi there were two magistrates (_duumvirs_) corresponding to the consuls at Rome. Provincial _duumvirs_ often claimed and received the courtesy title of _prætors_, which is the ti...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
THE MAGISTRATES. — The Greek word used (_Stratêgi,_ literally, _generals_ — the name survived in 1750 in the Italian _Stradigo,_ used of the prefect of Messina) is used with St. Luke’s usual accuracy,...
οὗτοι, contemptuously Ἰουδ. ὄντες : If the decree of Claudius expelling the Jews from Rome had been enacted, it would have easily inflamed the minds of the people and the magistrates at Philippi again...
WELCOMED; ATTESTED; IMPRISONED Acts 16:14 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gospel which was to transform Europe. The need for it was uns...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
Paul and Silas Imprisoned Luke reported that the group went for prayer, possibly daily. A slave girl who was demon possessed followed them crying out, "These men are the servants of the Most High God,...
(12) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, (12) Covetousness pretends a desire for common peace and godliness....
_Jews. this was the name the first Christians went by among the pagans. Indeed our Saviour's being born of that nation, and his disciples adoring the same God, and following the same morality and Scri...
After the demon has evacuated the damsel, she has no more power to tell fortunes and practice divination than any other person. Consequently, her owners, seeing that they can get no more money for her...
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, (20) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These...
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...
− 20._These men trouble our city. _This accusation was craftily composed to burden the servants of Christ. For on the one side they pretend the name of the Romans, than which nothing was more favorabl...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE MAGISTRATES,.... The same as before; wherefore the Syriac version omits them there, and reads them both together here, calling them the magistrates and chief men of the city; t...
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, Ver. 20. _Trouble our city_] Faithful preachers have ever been by the wicked accounted trouble tow...
_And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone_ Was vanished with the evil spirit that was cast out. See here of how much evil the love of money is the root! If the preaching of the g...
Many are greatly troubled when Satan is prevented from helping them to make money; and earnestly contend that the prosecution of their wicked employment is essential to the public good....
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
AND THEY BROUGHT THEM TO THE MAGISTRATES, AND SAID, " THESE MEN, BEING JEWS, EXCEEDINGLY TROUBLE OUR CITY; 1. Paul and Silas are now before these rulers. 2. The charge - 1. These men are Jews. 2....
"and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city" "Magistrates" "The collegiate magistrates of. Roman colony were commonly called...
16-24 Satan, though the father of lies, will declare the most important truths, when he can thereby serve his purposes. But much mischief is done to the real servants of Christ, by unholy and false p...
MAGISTRATES, the same who are called _rulers; _ and the word here shows, that they were under the power of the sword, and ruled by the Romans; though the rulers spoken of in the former verse might be...
Acts 16:20 And G2532 brought G4317 (G5631) them G846 magistrates G4755 said G2036 (G5627) These G3778 men...
THE MISSION TO EUROPE (16:6-19:20). Paul's plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he was first hindered from going one way, and then anoth...
MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description of P...
‘And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, b...
ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT LEAD TO ADDITIONS TO THE CHURCH IN PHILIPPI (16:19-34). But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pockets. They did not care about the girl herself, they had...
Acts 16:20. TO THE MAGISTRATES. The official title of these provincial officers was ‘Duumviri;' but the title they preferred and usually assumed was the well-known Roman appellation of ‘Praetor.'...
UNTO THE MAGISTRATES (τοις στρατηγοις). Greek term (στρατοσ, αγω) for leader of an army or general. But in civic life a governor. The technical name for the magistrates in a Roman colony was _duumvi...
MAGISTRATES (Greek, "stratēgos", "Roman magistrates")....
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
THEY GRABBED PAUL AND SILAS. Nothing angers men more than seeing their greed defeated. THESE MEN ARE JEWS. That fact alone would incriminate them. Compare Acts 18:2_ and note._ TORE THE CLOTHES OFF. I...
_A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination._ THE PYTHONESS The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as some MSS. give it, a Python spirit. The Python was the s...
_And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone._ APOSTOLIC DUTY AND VICISSITUDES I. Christ’s servants will use whatever power they possess to set the slaves of Satan free. Paul did n...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:20 The MAGISTRATES were responsible for maintaining civil order. Two of these officials were appointed to each Roman colony. ⇐
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:19. THE RULERS, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates (Luke 12:58). Acts 16:20. The MAGISTRATES, στρατηγοί, were the two chief civic authorities (dunmviri) in a Roman colony...
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 18:18; Acts 17:6; Acts 18:2; Acts 19:34;...
Magistrates [σ τ ρ α τ η γ ο ι ς]. Their usual name was duumviri answering to the consuls of Rome; but they took pride in calling themselves strathgoi, or praetors, as being a more honorable title. Th...
Being Jews — A nation peculiarly despised by the Romans....