And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
Ver. 25. And when they agreed not] They jarred. It is a metaphor from musical instruments that make no harmony, ασυμφωνοι .
Had spoken one word] A terrible stinging word, that would stick in their souls and flesh, as the envenomed arrows of the Almighty, throughout all eternity.
ACTS 28:25 u`mw/n {B} External attestation (î74 a A B Y 33 81 1739 itp, s copsa, bo geo _al_) as well as internal considerations (the tone and contents of the speech, conveying censure and rejection)...
Verse Acts 28:25. _AGREED NOT AMONG THEMSELVES_] It seems that a controversy arose between the _Jews_ themselves, in consequence of some _believing_, and others _disbelieving_; and the two parties co...
HAD SPOKEN ONE WORD - One solemn declaration, reminding them that it was the characteristic of the nation to reject the testimony of God, and that it was to be expected. It was the last warning which...
CHAPTER 28 _ 1. In the Island of Melita (Acts 28:1)._ 2. The arrival in Rome (Acts 28:11). 3. Paul calling the chief of the Jews and his message (Acts 28:17). Melita, which means “honey,” is the is...
THE JEWS ARE HARDENED. It was a numerous meeting; we can scarcely understand the words to mean that more came the second time than the first. The kingdom of God is a wide phrase for the Christian doct...
WELCOME AT MALTA (Acts 28:1-6)...
When we arrived in Rome, permission was given to Paul to stay in his own house with the soldier who was his guard. After three days he invited the leaders of the Jews to come to see him. When they had...
WHEN THEY AGREED NOT. being out of harmony. Greek. _asumphonos._ Only here. See Acts 5:9; Acts 15:15. DEPARTED. Literally were being sent away. App-174. The imperfect suggests that the chief men (Acts...
_agreed not among themselves_ This may have been the real cause of their inaction in the matter of the Apostle's trial. He would not have been without a party of supporters among their own body. _unto...
ST PAUL’S INTERVIEW WITH THE JEWS IN ROME...
ὙΜΩ͂Ν for ἡμῶν with אAB. _Vulg_. ‘nostros.’ 25. ἈΣΎΜΦΩΝΟΙ ΔῈ ὌΝΤΕΣ ΠΡῸΣ�, _and when they agreed not among themselves_. This may have been the real cause of their inaction in the matter of the Apostle...
_PAUL REMAINED A PRISONER AT ROME ACTS 28:23-31:_ Many Jews came to Paul's house. He used the Law and the Prophets to talk to them about God's kingdom (church). His goal was to "persuade them concerni...
ΆΣΎΜΦΩΝΟΣ (G800) негармоничный, несогласный, ΌΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part._ (причины) от ΕΊΜΊ (G1510). ΆΠΕΛΎΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. от_ ΑΠΟΛΎΩ (G630) распускать; _med._ отпускать себя, уезжать, ΕΊΠΌΝΤΟΣ _...
WELL SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST— The apostle could not refer to them all, because some believed; but it is probable that most of them rejected the gospel. With respect to this passage from Isaiah, which he...
AT ROME. Acts 28:16-31. Acts 28:16 And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him. Acts 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days he c...
25-28. From what follows, we have reason to suppose that the unbelieving party gave some unbecoming expression to their sentiments. (25) "_And disagreeing among themselves, they dispersed, Paul saying...
_ _ And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, And when they (the Jews) agreed n...
9 Three months busy with blessing thus came out of the catastrophe. Had the ship wintered in Cnidus, as they had wished, or at Ideal Harbors, as Paul proposed, the ship and cargo might indeed have bee...
See Isaiah 6:9. OUR FATHERS] RV 'your fathers.' St. Paul renounces fellowship with the unbelieving Jews. See Acts 15....
ST. PAUL IN ROME (28:16-31) 16. The captain of the guard] either the captain of the prætorian guard (_proefectus proetorio_), or, more probably, the captain of the troops called _frumentarii_, whose...
ST. PAUL A PRISONER AT ROME 1. They.. they] RV 'we.. we.' MELITA] RM 'Melitene.' Melita is certainly Malta, and not (as has been erroneously supposed) Meleda off the Illyrian coast. Tradition correct...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 28 ON THE ISLAND CALLED MALTA, 28:1-10 V1 We arrived on the shore. We discovered that the island was called Malta. V2 The people who lived ther...
AFTER THAT PAUL HAD SPOKEN ONE WORD. — The tone of vehement indignation implies a patience almost exhausted by the long contest with prejudice and unbelief. He cannot refrain from reproducing the conv...
ἀσύμφωνοι, _cf._ Wis 18:19 and Dan., LXX, Bel., Acts 28:15; _cf._ for the phrase Diod. Sic., iv., 1, the word is found in Josephus, but also in classical Greek. δέ : the best attested reading marks sh...
PREACHING IN THE WORLD'S CAPITAL Acts 28:21 It was one of the earliest cares of Paul to summon the leading members of the Jewish community, that he might explain to them his position. He made clear t...
On land new perils threatened. While gathering sticks for a fire, a viper fastened on the apostle's hand. Shaking it off, he was unharmed. This convinced those who watched that he was divine, and they...
After three days in Rome, Paul called for the leaders of the Jews. He explained to them that he was in Rome because of charges brought against him by their brethren in Jerusalem. The authorities had w...
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, a...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 25._And when they could not _The malice and frowardness of the unfaithful is the cause of this, that Christ, who is our peace, and the only bond of holy unity, is an occasion of dissension, and doth...
At Melita we find him again exercising his accustomed power among that barbarous people. One sees that God is with him. Evangelisation does not, however, appear in the account of his sojourn there, or...
AND WHEN THEY AGREED NOT AMONG THEMSELVES,.... One part believing what was said, and the other disbelieving; and such a division is the usual effect of the Gospel ministry; see Luke 12:51. Or this ma...
_And some believed the things which were spoken_ Were happily persuaded of the truth of Paul's doctrine, and were induced to embrace Christianity; _and some_ On the other hand, were so much under the...
WELL SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST; he spoke the truth. ESAIAS; ISAIAH 6:9-10; Matthew 13:14; JOHN 12:39-40....
A word from Isaiah applied:...
AND WHEN THEY AGREED NOT AMONG THEMSELVES, THEY DEPARTED AFTER THAT PAUL HAD SPOKEN ONE WORD, WELL SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST BY ESAIAS THE PROPHET UNTO OUR FATHERS,...
Very soon contacting inhabitants, they found that the island was called Melita, present day Malta. The people are called "barbarous," which only means they were not Greek or Jewish -- not the cultured...
SO WHEN THEY DID NOT AGREE AMONG THEMSELVES, THEY DEPARTED AFTER PAUL HAD SAID ONE WORD: " THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE RIGHTLY THROUGH ISAIAH THE PROPHET TO OUR FATHERS, 26 saying, " Go to this people and...
As they began to leave, Paul gave one parting word. Acts 28:26-27 "The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet" Paul here affirms that Isaiah was an inspired man. "What the Spirit led Isa...
23-31 Paul persuaded the Jews concerning Jesus. Some were wrought upon by the word, and others hardened; some received the light, and others shut their eyes against it. And the same has always been t...
THEY AGREED NOT AMONG THEMSELVES; thus Christ came _to send fire on the earth,_ LUKE 12:49: not that the gospel does this in itself; for it is _the gospel of peace,_ EPHESIANS 6:15, not only betwixt G...
25-28. From what follows, we have reason to suppose that the unbelieving party gave some unbecoming expression to their sentiments. (25) "_ And disagreeing among themselves, they dispersed, Paul sayin...
Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments by whom the world moves; by whom creation consists, and all things have life; who also wrought mightily in the prophets,[412]...
Acts 28:25 So G1161 agree G800 G5607 (G5752) among G4314 themselves G240 departed G630 (G5710) Paul...
‘And when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after that Paul had spoken one word, “Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, saying, Go you to this people,...
Acts 28:25. AND WHEN THEY AGREED NOT AMONG THEMSELVES, THEY DEPARTED. Evidently the assembled Jews openly expressed their difference of opinion. A remnant seems to have believed, but the large majorit...
WHEN THEY AGREED NOT (ασυμφωνο οντες). Old adjective, only here in N.T., double compound (α privative, συμ, φωνη), without symphony, out of harmony, dissonant, discordant. It was a triumph to gain...
Acts 28:1. _And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, bec...
CONTENTS: The landing at Melita. Miracle of the viper's bite. Healing of Publius' father. Paul's arrival at Rome and his ministry there to the Jews. Paul turns to the Gentiles. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Hol...
Acts 28:1. _Melita,_ now Malta. This island seems to have been inhabited by runaways, for _melim,_ in the language of Carthage, is to escape. It was inhabited by a colony of refugees from Carthage, a...
SO THEY SET A DATE WITH PAUL. A large number came to hear what he would say. HE TRIED TO CONVINCE THEM. Paul used the Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets to preach Christ to them. SOME OF TH...
_And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging._ PAUL’S SECOND CONFERENCE WITH THE JEWS Note-- I. The interesting character of his preaching. It was-- 1. Evangelic...
_And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard._ ROME AS SEEN BY PAUL Within a circuit of little more than twelve miles more than two millions of inhabit...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 28:23. INTO his LODGING.—Probably the “hired dwelling,” μίσθωμα, of Acts 28:30, though some (Heschyius, Hackett) consider the term ξενία points to a private house—perhaps that...
EXPOSITION ACTS 28:1 We for _they, _A.V. and T.R. (twice). WAS CALLED. It reads as if it was the answer to their question to the natives, "What is this island called?" MELITA. That Melita is the isla...
Tonight we'd like to just go through the twenty-eighth chapter of Acts and finish this book so that next Sunday night we move into the first two Chapter s of Romans. That's your reading assignment for...
2 Peter 1:21; Acts 28:29; Mark 7:6; Matthew 15:7...
Agreed not. See on agreed together, ch. verse 9....
Well spake the Holy Ghost to your fathers — Which is equally applicable to you....
The obstinate infidelity and unreasonable unbelief which was found among the Jews under the apostle's preaching, was no doubt. great grief of heart unto him; but at their departure he tells them, that...