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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Acts 18:5

Were come from Macedonia; according as was ordered by him, Acts 17:14,15. Pressed in the spirit; more than ordinarily affected, the Spirit of God influencing his spirit, so that he felt an anguish or pain at the heart, as 2 Corinthians 2:4; such was his grief for the contumacy of the Jews, so great was his desire that they might be saved. Jesus was Christ:

1. The Christ, or anointed, that excelled all other Christs or anointed ones, being anointed with oil above measure.

2. The Christ that was promised by the prophets.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    ACTS 18:5 lo,gw| {B} The expression that Paul sunei,ceto tw|/ lo,gw| (“was wholly absorbed with preaching,” so Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich-Danker) seems to have been misunderstood, so that pneu,mati was eit...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Acts 18:5. _WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME_] We have seen, Acts 17:13, that when Paul was obliged to leave Berea, because of the persecution raised up against him in that place, he left Sil...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS ... - They came to Paul according to the request which he had sent by the brethren who accompanied him from Thessalonica, Acts 17:15. PAUL WAS PRESSED - Was urged; was bo...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 18 _ 1. In Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla. His Testimony and Separation from the Jews (Acts 18:1)._ 2. Encouragement from the Lord in a vision (Acts 18:9). 3. Paul and Gallio (Acts 18:12...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PAUL AT CORINTH. Corinth (p. 832), the seat of the Roman proconsul, was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and luxury...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    PREACHING IN CORINTH (Acts 18:1-11) Its very position made Corinth (G2882) a key city of Greece. Greece is almost cut in two by the sea. On one side is the Saronic Gulf with its port of Cenchrea and...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    After this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth. There he found a Jew called Aquila, who was a native of Pontus, but who had newly arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had decr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AND. Now. WERE COME. came down. WAS PRESSED, &C. Read, was engrossed with or by (Greek. _en)_ the word, i.e. his testimony. SPIRIT. All thetexts read "word" (Greek. _logos_. App-121.10). AND TESTI...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And_( BUT) _when Silas and Timotheus were come_( CAME DOWN) _from Macedonia_ The particle at the beginning of the verse is better regarded as adversative. We have in this verse an account of a change...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Acts 18:1-11. PAUL GOES FROM ATHENS TO CORINTH, LABOURS THERE WITH HIS OWN HANDS FOR HIS MAINTENANCE. HE IS ENCOURAGED IN HIS PREACHING BY A VISION OF THE LORD...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _PAUL'S GREAT SUCCESS AT CORINTH ACTS 18:1-11:_ After Paul's sermon in the Areopagus and the good result of it he traveled to Corinth. At Corinth he associated with Aquila and his wife Priscilla. They...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME, &C.— St. Paul was at Corinth some time before his two assistants came up to him, and so long he frequented the synagogue; but when Timothy was come from Thessal...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    18:5 of (a-16) Or 'earnestly occupied with.' The Greek word is the same as 'constrains,' 2 Corinthians 5:14 . Christ. (b-27) Lit. 'the Christ Jesus;' i.e. the Christ was really come, and that Jesus wa...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA. — We learn from 1 Thessalonians 2:18, that the latter had come to St. Paul at Athens, but had been almost immediately sent back to Thessalonica t...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    See note on Acts 17:15; McGiffert, _Apostolic Age_, p. 269, recognises this among the striking points of contact between Acts and the Epistles to the Corinthians. Here Silas and Timothy are said to ha...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A GREAT MINISTRY IN A GREAT CITY Acts 18:1 Paul tells us, in 1 Corinthians 2:1, that he entered Corinth with fear and trembling and made no effort to attract by human wisdom or eloquence. From the f...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Preaching in Corinth Following his normal pattern, Paul first preached in the synagogue in Corinth. During that time, Silas and Timothy once again joined the apostle's company. Silas may have come fro...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul (c) was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] Christ. (c) Was very much grieved in mind: by which is signifie...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    No further mention is made of Silas in these Acts. Some martyrologists think he died in Macedonia by martyrdom. He is honoured in the Church as a saint, and sometimes, as well as St. Barnabas, obtains...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    When Silas and Timothy arrive from the North, Paul was straightened in the Word, testifying to Jews and Greeks that _“Jesus is the Christ.”_ The meaning of that statement is simply this: he has preach...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia_ Silas seems to have stayed a considerable time at Berea; but Timotheus, having come to the apostle while he was at Athens, and having been sent...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    PRESSED IN THE SPIRIT; distressed in view of the condition of the Jews, and powerfully moved to preach to them the gospel....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PAUL AT CORINTH. Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA, PAUL WAS PRESSED IN THE SPIRIT, AND TESTIFIED TO THE JEWS THAT JESUS WAS CHRIST....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wif...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHY HAD COME FROM MACEDONIA, PAUL WAS COMPELLED BY THE SPIRIT, AND TESTIFIED TO THE JEWS _THAT_ JESUS _IS_ THE CHRIST. 1. Part of the team is back together. Silas and Timothy, who...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ"Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia" The Roman province...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Though Paul was entitled to support from the churches he planted, and from the people to whom he preached, yet he worked at his calling. An honest trade, by which a man may get his bread, is not...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 18:5 G1161 When G5613 G5037 Silas G4609 and G2532 Timothy G5095 come G2718 (G5627) from...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WAS CONSTRAINED BY THE WORD (συνειχετο τω λογω). This is undoubtedly the correct text and not τω πνευματ of the Textus Receptus, but συνειχετο is in my opinion the direct middle imperfect indicative...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    PRESSED Or, constrained by the Word. Compare (2 Corinthians 5:14)....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Paul at Corinth. The careless Gallio. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Apollos at Ephesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Paul, Aquila, Priscilla, Claudius, Silas, Timothy, Justus, Crispus, Gallio, Sosthenes,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Acts 18:2. _Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome._ Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ninth...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit (R._., BY THE WORD). ENTHUSIASM JUSTIFIED 1. Different effects are produced in different minds by the proclamati...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches._ PAUL AS A MODEL FOR ALL GOSPEL MINISTERS He recognises the importance of-- I. Establishing new converts in the faith. In this visit...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth._ PAUL AT CORINTH Paul entered, not the grand, classical Corinth, but a sort of afterglow Corinth. The old city had been destroyed by...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:5 Paul apparently had sent SILAS AND TIMOTHY from Athens to visit the Macedonian churches (see note on 17:15). When they rejoined Paul in Corinth, they probably brought a contribu...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:5. PRESSED IN SPIRIT.—According to the oldest authorities this should be _was held together by the word_, συνείχετο τῷ λόγῳ—_i.e._, either earnestly occupied with the busin...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ACTS 18:1 _He _for _Paul, _A.V. and T.R. AFTER THESE THINGS, etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Beroeans, who...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn now to the eighteenth chapter of Acts as we continue our study through the Bible. At the end of the study last week, the end of chapter seventeen, we found Paul speaking to the Epicurean an...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Acts 17:14;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Was pressed in the spirit [σ υ ν ε ι χ ε τ ο τ ω π ν ε υ μ α τ ι]. Instead of spirit the best texts read logw, by the word. On pressed or constrained, see note on taken, Luke 4:38. The meaning is, Pau...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia — Silas seems to have stayed a considerable time at Berea: but Timotheus had come to the apostle while he was at Athens, and been sent by him to c...

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