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Acts 9:29
And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians. But they went about to slay him,
And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians. But they went about to slay him,
ACTS 9:29 ~Ellhnista,j {A} The weight of the manuscript evidence is decisively in support of ~Ellhnista,j, usually rendered “Hellenists” (i.e., Greek-speaking Jews). See also the comment on 11.20....
Verse 29. _DISPUTED AGAINST THE GRECIANS_] That is, the _Hellenistic Jews_, viz. those who lived in Grecian cities, spoke the Greek language, and used the Septuagint version for their scriptures. And...
AND SPAKE BOLDLY - He openly defended the doctrine that Jesus was the Messiah. IN THE NAME ... - By the authority of the Lord Jesus. AGAINST THE GRECIANS - See the word “Grecians” explained in the no...
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...
PAUL AT JERUSALEM. This visit is understood to have taken place very shortly after Saul's conversion; the brethren there have not heard of his conversion, nor of his preaching in Damascus. Barnabas ha...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
When he arrived in Jerusalem he tried to make contact with the disciples. They were all afraid of him because they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the...
SPAKE BOLDLY. Same word as "preached boldly" in Acts 9:27. DISPUTED. Same word as in Acts 6:9. GRECIANS. See note on Acts 6:1. WENT ABOUT. took in hand. Greek. _epicheireo._ Occurs elsewhere,...
_And he spake boldly_, &c. The conjunction is left out in the best MSS. Read, "speaking boldly, &c." _in the name of the Lord Jesus_ The last word is omitted in the oldest MSS. _and disputed against...
Ἰησοῦ omitted with אABE. Not in _Vulg_. 29. Tischendorf marks the beginning of this verse at ἐλάλει, and not, as other editors, at παρρησιαζόμενος. ἘΛΆΛΕΙ ΤΕ ΚΑῚ ΣΥΝΕΖΉΤΕΙ ΠΡῸΣ ΤΟῪΣ ἙΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΆΣ _and h...
SAUL VISITS JERUSALEM. HE IS SENT AWAY TO TARSUS. THE CHURCHES HAVE REST...
SAUL'S EARLY MINISTRY ACTS 9:19-31 : After his conversion Saul began to build up what he had tried to destroy. Saul went to the Jewish meeting places and immediately started telling people that Jesus...
ΈΛΆΛΕΙ _impf. ind. act., см._ Acts 9:6. ΣΥ ΝΕΖΉΤΕΙ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΖΗΤΈΩ (G4802) обсуждать, спорить. _Impf._ означает, что Павел часто спорил (Haenchen). ΈΠΕΧΕΊΡΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΧΕ...
AGAINST THE GRECIANS:— The Hellenists; or those foreign Jews who used the Greek language, and came out of other parts to worship at Jerusalem, St. Paul being earnestly desirous that they might carry a...
THE CONVERSION AND EARLY LABORS OF SAUL Acts 9:1-30; Galatians 1:17-24 For a moment let us pause and look back over the pathway of the narrative, Luke has given the following events since the beginni...
IN JERUSALEM. Acts 9:26-29. Galatians 1:17 b - Galatians 1:19. Acts 9:26 And when he was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himsel
See notes on verse 28...
And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him. AND HE SPAKE BOLDY IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, AND DISPUTED AGAINST THE GRE...
10 God graciously gives a double witness to His dealing with Saul. Ananias is quite his opposite, being a devout disciple. Saul would have found it almost impossible to join the disciples as he did wi...
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...
GRECIANS] i.e. Greekspeaking Jews....
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...
DISPUTED AGAINST THE GRECIANS. — It will be remembered that it was as the leader of the Hellenistic-Jews of the synagogue named in Acts 6:9 that Saul had first appeared in the history of the Church. N...
CHAPTER 4 SAUL AND SINAI Acts 9:29 WE have bestowed a great deal of attention upon the incidents at Damascus, because the conversion of Saul of Tarsus is more closely connected with the truth and au...
συνεζήτει, _cf._ Acts 6:9. πρὸς τοὺς Ἑλλην., of whom Saul himself was one; see critical notes. Saul's visit was a short one (Galatians 1:18), and although we must not limit his opportunities of disput...
WELCOMED AS A BROTHER Acts 9:23-31 He who feeds on Scripture must wax strong. The new convert started at once to testify of the Savior. We have no right to keep to ourselves the great treasures that...
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 Persecutor Becomes a Preacher Once he was baptized and had broken his fast by partaking of some food, Saul began to be with the disciples. Saul immediately began preaching in Damascus, then went t...
And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the (m) Grecians: but they went about to slay him. (m) See (Acts 6:1)....
He spoke also to the Gentiles, [1] and disputed with the Grecians, or Hellenists. See chap. vi. ver. 1. By the Gentiles, many understand those who had been Gentiles, and were become proselytes or conv...
See how he now seeks to undo all the mischief he ever did the cause of Christ at Jerusalem. He goes directly into those Hellenistic synagogues, _i. e_., where they used the Greek language, and where S...
PAUL'S APOSTOLICAL RECOGNITION 26-30. They had no mails nor telegraphs. News was slow and uncertain. His name had been the terror of Jerusalem. They fear a strategem, and all stand aloof until Barnaba...
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. (21) But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jeru...
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...
29._He disputed with the Grecians. _Erasmus noteth well in this place that those are here called Grecians, not which came (624) of Grecians, but rather those Jews who were scattered throughout divers...
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 HE SPAKE BOLDLY IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS,.... He spoke the Gospel of Christ boldly, as it ought to be spoken; he spoke it openly, publicly, freely, and faithfully, not fearing the faces or re...
And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him. Ver. 29. _And he spake boldly_] The soul, by the witness of the Spirit, finds in...
_And when Saul was come to Jerusalem_, &c. It must be observed here, that the history of Paul's preaching at Damascus, going into Arabia, and visiting Jerusalem, is somewhat intricate, and interpreter...
GRECIANS; Jews and proselytes who spoke the Greek language. Chap Acts 6:1....
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,...
AND HE SPOKE BOLDLY IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS AND DISPUTED AGAINST THE HELLENISTS, BUT THEY ATTEMPTED TO KILL HIM. 1. Bold = to speak with assurance, confidence; to speak freely 2. He preached t...
"preaching boldly in the name of the Lord: and he spake and disputed against the Grecian Jews; but they were seeking to kill him" "Paul appears to be right in the same synagogue where he before had de...
23-31 When we enter into the way of God, we must look for trials; but the Lord knows how to deliver the godly, and will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape. Though Saul's conversion was a...
DISPUTED AGAINST THE GRECIANS; Hellenists, of which ACTS 6:1, such as were born in foreign parts, but of Jewish parents; these Paul chose rather to dispute with, because these had raised the persecuti...
Acts 9:29 And G2532 spoke G2980 (G5707) boldly G3955 (G5740) in G1722 name G3686 Lord G2962 Jesus...
‘Preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and disputed against the Grecian Jews, but they were seeking to kill him.' And with the boldness imparted by the Holy Spirit (Acts 4:31) he went...
Acts 9:29. AND DISPUTED AGAINST THE GRECIANS. These Grecians or Hellenists were Jews who, in the ordinary intercourse of life, used the Greek language (see note on Acts 6:1). It has been suggested tha...
PREACHING BOLDLY (παρρησιαζομενος). For a while. Evidently Saul did not extend his preaching outside of Jerusalem (Galatians 1:22) and in the city preached mainly in the synagogues of the Hellenists...
GRECIANS Hellenists, that is, Grecian Jews....
Acts 9:19 Damascus Arabia Jerusalem. We see from this chapter: I. The minute care which God has over His people. He gives to Ananias the street and the house in the great city of Damascus where Paul...
Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,-_ Notice that little word «yet.» «Saul yet breathing out threatenings a...
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...
AND DISPUTED WITH THE GREEK-SPEAKING JEWS. He was "one of them." But they considered him a "traitor" because he had turned to Christ. Note also that the Lord warned him to get away from Jerusalem (Act...
_And when Saul was come to Jerusalem he essayed to Join himself to the disciples._ SAUL’S EMOTIONS ON RETURNING TO JERUSALEM He was returning to it from a spiritual as Ezra had from a bodily captivit...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:1 In chs. Acts 6:1 Luke deals primarily with the witness of the Jerusalem church among the dispersed Greek-speaking Jews (the “Hellenists”) and with the apostle Peter. The conversi...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:29 The HELLENISTS here are not the same as the Jewish believers called “Hellenists” in Acts 6:1. These people were Jews, but not Christians....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:27. BARNABAS (Acts 4:36) appears here as the patron of Saul, whom he takes by the hand (not literally, but metaphorically), and introduces to the apostles. Acts 9:28, should...
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...
2 Corinthians 11:26; Acts 11:20; Acts 17:17; Acts 18:19; Acts 19:8;...
Grecians. Rev., correctly, Grecian Jews. See on ch. Acts 6:1. Went about [ε π ε χ ε ι ρ ο υ ν]. Better, attempted : lit., took in hand....
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...