Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 13:31
He was seen many days by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem — This last journey both presupposes all the rest, and was the most important of all.
He was seen many days by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem — This last journey both presupposes all the rest, and was the most important of all.
ACTS 13:31 @nu/n# The evidence for and against the inclusion of nu/n is curiously ambiguous. On the one hand, its varying position (after eivsi, in a, before it in A C 81), its expanded form (a;cri n...
Verse 31. _HE WAS SEEN MANY DAYS_, c.] The thing was done but a very short time since and many of the witnesses are still alive, and ready to attest the fact of this resurrection in the most unequivoc...
AND HE WAS SEEN - See the notes at the end of Matthew. MANY DAYS - Forty days, Acts 1:3. OF THEM WHICH CAME UP - By the apostles particularly. He was seen by others; but they are especially mentioned...
PART III The Witness to the Gentiles. The Apostle to the Gentiles; his Ministry and Captivity. Chapter s 13-28 CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Divine Choice. Barnabas and Saul separated unto the work (Acts 1...
THE SERMON AT PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. This is a specimen of Paul's missionary practice. In external matters it is true to the facts, yet the sermon is on the one hand so like the sermon of Peter (ch. 2) and...
THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Acts 13:1-3) Acts 13:1-52; Acts 14:1-28 tell the story of the first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas set out from Antioch. Antioch was 15 miles up the River Orontes...
Then Paul stood up and made a gesture with his hand and said, "You Israelites, and you who are God-fearers, listen to this. The God of this people Israel chose out our fathers and he exalted the peopl...
SEEN. Greek. _optomai._ App-106. MANY DAYS. for (Greek. _epi.)_ many days. OF. by. CAME UP WITH HIM. Greek. _sunanabaino._ Only here and Mark 15:41. GALILEE. All the Apostles, except Judas, were Ga...
_them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem_ The Apostles, and the body of Christ's followers, were drawn from Galilee, insomuch that, before the Crucifixion, Galilæans was a name by which...
ἈΠῸ ΤΗ͂Σ ΓΑΛΙΛΑΊΑΣ, _from Galilee_. The Apostles, and the main body of Christ’s followers, were drawn from Galilee, in so much that, before the Crucifixion, Galilæans was a name by which they were kno...
PAUL’S SPEECH AT ANTIOCH...
_PAUL'S POWERFUL SERMON AT ANTIOCH ACTS 13:14-41:_ At Perga in Pamphylia John Mark left Paul and Barnabas and went back to Jerusalem. Later, this would cause no small trouble between these brethren. W...
ΏΦΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΠΛΕΊΟΥΣ _acc. pl. сотр. от_ ΠΟΛΎΣ (G4183) многочисленный, многий. Используется с оттенком сравнения (LC), или означает: "больше, чем несколько дней" (RW...
AT ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. Acts 13:14-52. a. In the synagogue, the first sermon of Paul. Acts 13:1. Acts 13:14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the s...
See notes one verse 30...
And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. AND HE WAS SEEN MANY DAYS OF THEM WHICH CAME UP WITH HIM FROM GALILEE TO J...
13 John, doubtless, was at fault in thus deserting the apostles. But there seems to be a deeper reason for his defection. Being from Jerusalem, and a nephew of Barnabas, he represented the weakness of...
13:31 who (c-18) Lit. 'who indeed.'...
ST. PAUL AS A MISSIONARY 1. Prophets] see on Acts 11:27. SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER] Niger was a Roman cognomen. LUCIUS OF CYRENE] doubtless one of those Cyrenians who first preached at Antioch (Act...
ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. ST. PAUL'S SERMON IN THE SYNAGOGUE. The cities which the apostles now proceeded to evangelise (Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe) were situated in the southern part of t...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 THE *HOLY SPIRIT CHOOSES BARNABAS AND SAUL, 13:1-3 V1 There were some *prophets and teachers in the *church at Antioch. They were Barnabas,...
AND HE WAS SEEN MANY DAYS. — The language is that of one who had conversed with the witnesses, and had convinced himself of the truth of their testimony. We find what the Apostle had in his thoughts i...
ὤφθη, see Milligan's note on the word, _Resurrection of our Lord_, p. 265; _Witness of the Epistles_ (1892), pp. 369, 377, 386; and Beyschlag, _Leben Jesu_, i., p. 434 (second edition), _cf._ Luke 24:...
CONDEMNED BY MEN BUT RAISED BY GOD Acts 13:25-37 For Paul the Resurrection was always the keystone of faith. He had taken particular care to assure himself of the reality of that foundation fact. In...
The first most distinctly missionary movement sprang from Antioch, and was independent of all official initiation. A company of those in Antioch sent Saul and Barnabas, and it is declared immediately...
Proclaiming the Gospel in Antioch of Pisidia Ash says they would have landed at the port of Attalia and then gone on the short distance to Perga. For some reason, John Mark decided to leave "Paul and...
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. (27) For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because the...
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...
31.After that he hath said that Christ came out of the grave, which was beset with the hired ministers of the adversaries, he addeth now that he appeared to many of the disciples, which bare faithful...
We come now to the beginning of the direct history of the work, new in some important respects, that is, connected with Paul's mission by the immediate intervention of the Holy Ghost. It is not now Ch...
AND HE WAS SEEN MANY DAYS,.... Forty days, at certain times, OF THEM WHICH CAME UP WITH HIM FROM GALILEE; which though true of several women who followed him from Galilee, and to whom he appeared aft...
And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. Ver. 31. _Who are his witnesses to the people_] Of our Saviour's resurrectio...
_Men and brethren_ Even all you who are _children of the stock of Abraham_ Whether ye are my equals in years, or of more advanced age _And whosoever among you feareth God_ Of whatever family or nation...
THEM WHICH CAME UP; his apostles and others....
AND HE WAS SEEN MANY DAYS OF THEM WHICH CAME UP WITH HIM FROM GALILEE TO JERUSALEM, WHO ARE HIS WITNESSES UNTO THE PEOPLE....
The argument from the resurrection of Christ:...
From this time our attention is drawn particularly to the work of Saul, whose name is in this chapter changed to Paul, meaning "little," for one who is the most greatly used of God is, in his own esti...
HE WAS SEEN FOR MANY DAYS BY THOSE WHO CAME UP WITH HIM FROM GALILEE TO JERUSALEM, WHO ARE HIS WITNESSES TO THE PEOPLE. 1. Jesus did not go into hiding. He was seen by many people, over 500 at one ti...
And many people actually saw the resurrected Jesus (1 Corinthians 151 ff). While Paul was preaching in Antioch the other "witnesses" were preaching elsewhere....
14-31 When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare reading of the Scriptures in public assemblies is...
SEEN MANY DAYS; forty days between his resurrection and ascension, ACTS 1:3. Christ was seen, not only by the apostles, but of the Galilean women which came up with him unto Jerusalem, MATTHEW 28:1, a...
Acts 13:31 He G3739 seen G3700 (G5681) many G1909 G4119 days G2250 with G4872 (G5631) Him...
THE MINISTRY OF PAUL AND BARNABAS RESULTS IN THE COUNTER-ATTACK OF SATAN AND THE GATHERING AT JERUSALEM (13:1-15:35). Leaving Antioch under the direct commissioning of the Holy Spirit, in a parallel c...
PAUL AND HIS COMPANY PREACH IN PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. (13:13-52). Paul ‘and his company' (thus there were at least one or two others besides Mark) left Paphos and sailed across to Perga in Pamphylia. It wi...
“But God raised him from the dead, and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.” But that was not the end, for God ra...
PAUL'S MESSAGE (13:17-41). Paul's message divides into three parts. · In the first he declares the goodness and faithfulness of the One God, Who over long centuries, commencing with Abraham (‘chose o...
PAUL'S MESSAGE - PART 2. THROUGH A SERIES OF RULERS GOD HAS RAISED UP GREAT DAVID'S GREATER SON WHO DIED AND WAS RAISED AGAIN (13:20-37). In this section of his speech the emphasis is on God' provisio...
Acts 13:31. AND HE WAS SEEN MANY DAYS OF THEM. This was the most convincing proof of the Messiah- ship of Jesus. It was a proof which the apostles in their preaching ever used with great power. With t...
_The Argument of the following ten verses_, 28 - 37, _is as follows_ : I. Acts 13:28-29. The Jews put the innocent Jesus to death, and then laid Him in the grave. II. Acts 13:30-31. But God raised...
_Paul's Sermon in the Synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia_, _17-41._ This discourse falls naturally into three divisions: _(a)_ Acts 13:17-22. A sketch of the grand old story of the chosen people till t...
WAS SEEN FOR MANY DAYS (ωφθη επ ημερας πλειους). The common verb (first aorist passive indicative of οραω, to see) for the appearance of the Risen Christ, the one used by Paul of his own vision of C...
Acts 13:14. _But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. And after reading of the law and the prophets,_ From whi...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem._ «John» that is, John Mark, as we see by chapter 15...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Anti...
CONTENTS: Paul and Barnabas called. Satanic opposition from a sorcerer. Paul's sermon in the synagogue at Antioch. Opposition from Jews. Paul and Barnabas turn to Gentiles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Ho...
Acts 13:1. _The church that was at Antioch,_ which was counted one of the five apostolic churches. It is the true church by way of eminence, the synagogue having degenerated into a state of warfare wi...
FOR THE PEOPLE. Paul now explains the facts of the gospel. (1) Christ was rejected by the Jewish leaders; (2) the prophecies made to come true; (3) they force Pilate to kill him, even though they coul...
_For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew Him not._ THE REJECTION OF CHRIST I. Its ground. 1. Ignorance of Christ Himself. (1) Of His Divine Sonship. (2) His mediator...
_Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia._ PERGA IN PAMPHYLIA Because Perga was little known Pamphylia is subjoined. It was an ancient city on the river Cest...
_The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers._ THE HOURS ON THE WORLD’S CLOCK 1. Moving slowly forward as the hours of the Eternal God, with whom a thousand years are as one day, and of the l...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:31 FOR MANY DAYS HE APPEARED suggests that there were more resurrection appearances of Jesus than are recorded in the Gospels. ⇐
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:16 Paul’s sermon consisted of three parts: a sketch of OT history (vv. Acts 13:16), God’s ultimate provision in Jesus Christ (vv....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:13. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY.—Note the two changes—first of Saul’s name, which is henceforth Paul, and next of Paul’s position in the mission as leader rather than as follower,...
EXPOSITION ACTS 13:1 _At Antioch., in the Church that was there _for _in the Church that was at Antioch, _A.V.; _prophets, _etc., for _certain prophets, _etc., A.V. and T.R.; _Barnabas, _etc., for _a...
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,...
1 Corinthians 15:5; Acts 1:11; Acts 1:22; Acts 1:3; Acts 1:8;...
ELYMAS, PAULUS, AND PAUL Acts 13:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Barnabas and Saul and John Mark made up the party that journeyed together, as the Holy Ghost led them in the way. It was a strong party, and th...