Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Acts 19:7
Or exactly twelve; answering to the apostles, and that blessed number so often mentioned in Scripture.
Or exactly twelve; answering to the apostles, and that blessed number so often mentioned in Scripture.
AND ALL THE MEN - The whole number....
CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The second visit of Paul to Ephesus. The twelve disciples of John (Acts 19:1)._ 2. The Apostle's continued labors. The separation of the disciples. The Province Asia evangelized (Act...
OTHER FOLLOWERS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST AT EPHESUS. Paul's return to Ephesus, promised in Acts 18:21, is made a part of this anecdote. His movements were not fully known, as we saw in Acts 18:21. [101] Th...
It happened that when Apollos was in Corinth Paul went through the upper districts and came to Ephesus and found certain disciples there. He said to them, "When you believed, did you receive the Holy...
IN EPHESUS (Acts 19:1-7) Acts 19:1-41 is mainly concerned with Paul's work in Ephesus. He stayed longer there than anywhere else, almost three years. (i) Ephesus (G2181) was the market of Asia Minor....
MEN. Greek. _aner._ App-123....
_And all the men were about twelve The Revised Version_"And they were in all about twelve men," is a more strict rendering of the Greek, but it does not give a different sense, and "men" in that posit...
ἮΣΑΝ ΔῈ ΟἹ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ ἌΝΔΡΕΣ ὩΣΕῚ ΔΏΔΕΚΑ, _and they were in all about twelve men_. A new band or Apostles. The verse has been the cause of much remark. Why the inspired historian should speak with an ‘abo...
Acts 19:1-7. PAUL RETURNING TO EPHESUS FINDS THERE SOME DISCIPLES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST...
_TWELVE MEN WERE BAPTIZED AT EPHESUS ACTS 19:1-10:_ Paul went to Ephesus after Apollos had gone to Corinth. At Ephesus he met some disciples that had been baptized with John's baptism. The way that Pa...
ΉΣΑΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ, _см._ Acts 19:1....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Special Study PAUL'S POWER TO GIVE CHARISMATIC POWER (Acts 19:1-41) A. There is much ambiguous, scripturally-imprecise and confusing exegesis of Acts 19:1-7 being done today. 1....
See notes on verse 1...
And all the men were about twelve. AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE - and, from the mode of expression used, probably all men. Remarks: (1) The episode about Apollos from Alexandria, and the ac...
26 Apollos' ignorance of the ministry of the Lord and His twelve apostles made it easy for him to receive the truth proclaimed through Paul, so that he became a great help to the saints in Corinth as...
EPHESUS 1-41. Paul at Ephesus. Opposition of the manufacturers of idols. St. Paul, leaving Antioch in S. Galatia (see Acts 18:23), approached Ephesus not by the usual level route leading through Colos...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 PAUL IN EPHESUS, 19:1-10 V1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was travelling. He travelled through the *province on the higher road. He arr...
AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE. — Better, _The men were in all about twelve._ The whole narrative seems to imply that they were not individual cases, occurring here and there from time to time, but...
ὡσεὶ, as Weiss admits, excludes any special significance attaching to the number twelve on account of which the narrative would be constructed. See also Knabenbauer, _in loco_. We know so little about...
THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING IN EPHESUS Acts 19:1 Paul had planted good seed at Corinth, and Apollos, in turn, had watered it, 1 Corinthians 3:6. Large numbers became his devoted followers. This, however,...
The result of the work of Apollos was manifest when Paul reached Ephesus. There he found a company of sincere disciples to Jesus as He had been revealed by John. To them Paul declared the truth in its...
Some Disciples Who Were Reimmersed From Corinth, Paul went on to Ephesus. He met a group of disciples and asked them if they had received the Holy Spirit. Apparently they were some of those who had be...
SANCTIFICATION OF THE EPHESIAN CHURCH 1-7. Apollos remains preaching in the great church at Corinth, the largest and most gifted of the age, the result of an eighteen months' protracted meeting held b...
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, (2) He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Gh...
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...
From Verse 24 of Chapter 18 to Verse 7 of Chapter 19 we have a kind of summary of the progress made by the doctrine of Christ, and of the power that accompanied it. Apollos knew only of the teaching o...
AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE. The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, have not the word "about"; but affirm, that the men were twelve; and indeed the number being so small, the historian might...
And all the men were about twelve. Ver. 7. _And all the men were about twelve_] These twelve, being the firstfruits of this Church, were endued with extraordinary gifts to be for elders and rulers th...
Having found _certain disciples_ Who had been formerly baptized by John the Baptist, and since imperfectly instructed in Christianity, _he said, Have ye received the Holy Ghost?_ The extraordinary gif...
PAUL'S WORK AT EPHESUS. Acts 19:1 Paul's arrival at Ephesus:...
AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE. While Apollos was in Corinth, having made the voyage across the Aegean after his stay in Ephesus, Paul, having finished his visitation trip in the upper, the mountai...
Paul returned to Ephesus, as he had promised. Of course there was an assembly there already, as chapter 18:27 intimates; but he found certain disciples who, at his questioning, tell him they had not e...
NOW THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE IN ALL. 1. Apollos had done some work at Ephesus. 2. He had baptized 12 men before moving on to Corinth. 3. While his teaching was wrong - his zeal and desire to sprea...
"And they were in all about twelve men" IN THE SYNAGOGUE...
1-7 Paul, at Ephesus, found some religious persons, who looked to Jesus as the Messiah. They had not been led to expect the miraculous powers of the Holy Ghost, nor were they informed that the gospel...
Acts 19:7 Now G1161 men G435 were G2258 (G5713) about G5616 twelve G1177 all G3956...
‘'And they were in all about twelve men.' The men to whom this happened numbered ‘about twelve' (when citing numbers Luke always says ‘about'). The clear purpose of mentioning ‘twelve' here is to link...
PAUL'S MINISTRY IN EPHESUS AMONG THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN THE BAPTISER (19:1-7). Meanwhile Paul, having encouraged the churches in Phrygia-Galatia arrived via the mountain regions in Ephesus. There he ca...
Acts 19:7. AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE. Thus, out of the history of this foundation of the early Church, these men who came forward so abruptly disappeared as suddenly. The little episode is int...
CONTENTS: Paul at Ephesus. Disciples of John the Baptist become Christians. Paul in the synagogue and in the school of Tyrannus. Paul's miracles. Uproar of the silversmiths. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 19:1. _Paul came to Ephesus,_ a city of Ionia, built by the Amezones. Its temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the world; but Pompey plundered it of all its riches. This city is now in...
THEY WERE ABOUT TWELVE MEN IN ALL. These men appear here and nowhere else. Perhaps this type of thing happened many times, but God included this one to show the contrast between John's baptism and Chr...
_He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?_ RECEIVING THE HOLY GHOST I. The question itself. 1. Have we received anything? We have said that we believe in Christ. But to...
_While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul … came to Ephesus._ --Ephesus was the third capital and starting point of Christianity At Jerusalem Christianity was born in the cradle of Judaism; Antioch had been...
_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...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:1. WHILE APOLLOS WAS AT CORINTH.—A note of time for the incidents narrated in the present chapter. THE UPPER COASTS, or the upper country.—The district mentioned above (Acts...
EXPOSITION ACTS 19:1 _Country _for _coasts, _A.V.; _found _for _finding, _A.V. and T.R. THE UPPER COUNTRY (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through which St. Paul...
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth [watering what Paul had planted], Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus; and there he found certain disciples [that no dou...