Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 16:25
Paul and Silas sung a hymn to God — Notwithstanding weariness, hunger stripes, and blood. And the prisoners heard — A song to which they were not accustomed.
Paul and Silas sung a hymn to God — Notwithstanding weariness, hunger stripes, and blood. And the prisoners heard — A song to which they were not accustomed.
Verse Acts 16:25. _AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS - SANG PRAISES_] Though these holy men felt much, and had reason to fear more, yet they are undismayed, and even happy in their sufferings: they were so...
AND AT MIDNIGHT - Probably their painful posture, and the sufferings of their recent scourging, prevented their. sleeping. Yet, though they had no repose, they had a quiet conscience, and the supports...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe ...
IMPRISONMENT OF PAUL AND SILAS. THE PRISON BROKEN. The rulers (Acts 16:19) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called _Strategi, which_ answers to the Roman _Prœ tores._ Philippi was a colony...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. I...
MIDNIGHT. Greek. _meaonuktion._ Only here, Acts 20:7; Mark 13:35.Luke 11:5. PRAYED, AND. praying. Greek. _proseuchomai._ App-134. SANG PRAISES UNTO. Literally were hymning. Greek. _humneo._ Here,...
_And at midnight_ Sleep being out of the question, they passed the night in devotions. The imperfect tenses of the verbs in this verse imply that the prayers and singing were continued. But it is unne...
ΚΑΤᾺ ΔῈ ΤῸ ΜΕΣΟΝΎΚΤΙΟΝ, _and at midnight_. Sleep being out of the question they passed the night in devotion. The imperfects ὕμνουν and ἐπηκροῶντο in the verse indicate that the prayers and singing we...
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA. A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE A...
_THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILER IN PHILIPPI ACTS 16:16-40:_ At a place of prayer in Philippi Paul and Silas came across a girl that had a spirit of divination. Her masters made a lot of money from her p...
ΚΑΤΆ ΤΌ ΜΕΣΟΝΎΚΤΙΟΝ (G2596; G3317) около полуночи. Одним из отличительных признаков жизни в тюрьме была полная темнота. Наступление ночи лишало узников даже мельчайших проблесков дневного света, а в п...
AND AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS, &C.— These blessed apostles were as little daunted at suffering, as elevated when they were caressed and about to be adored for their miraculous cures. This was true fo...
AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40 a. A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12. Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in...
25. The condition of the two brethren, as night drew on, was miserable to a degree scarcely conceivable. Besides the physical pain of sitting in a dark dungeon, with their backs bleeding from the scou...
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. AND AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS PRAYED, AND SANG PRAISES UNTO GOD, [ proseuchomenoi (G4336) humnoun (G...
19 This is the first occasion in which the evangel comes into conflict with the religion of the nations and with the spirit powers back of it. Hitherto the Jews and Judaism opposed the evangel. At Lys...
16:25 singing, (e-13) _ Humneo_ . see Matthew 26:30 ....
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
AND AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS PRAYED, AND SANG PRAISES. — Better, _praying, they Were singing hymns,_ the Greek expressing one act rather than two. The act was, we may believe, habitual, and they wou...
κατὰ δὲ τὸ μεσονύκτιον : neuter of the adjective μεσονύκτιος, _cf._ Acts 20:7; Luke 11:5, elsewhere only in Mark 13:35, often in medical writers, also in Arist., Strabo, Plutarch; in LXX,...
SALVATION IN THE JAIL Acts 16:25 Some, as we have seen, are converted by the gentle opening of the heart; others amid the convulsions of the storm. The first knowledge of salvation may have reached t...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
The Conversion of the Jailor At midnight, while the other prisoners listened to Paul and Silas singing and praying, a great earthquake shook open all the prison doors and released all those bound in...
(15) And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. (15) The prayers of the godly do shake both heaven and earth....
To put a final quietus to all the trouble, they cast Paul and Silas into the deep, dark dungeon of their cruel, filthy old prison, with their lacerated, bleeding backs down on the cold, stone floor, a...
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. (26) And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and i...
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...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
AND AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS PRAYED, When others were asleep, and all things were still and quiet; Psalms 119:62, and they prayed doubtless for themselves, for their deliverance in God's time and wa...
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. Ver. 25. _Sang praises unto God_] His presence turns a prison into a palace, into a paradise. "From the...
_At midnight Paul and Silas prayed_ Doubtless, for their persecutors as well as for themselves; _and sang praises unto God_ Notwithstanding weariness, hunger, stripes, and blood; _and the prisoners he...
It is not in the power of the wicked to make the righteous unhappy, or prevent their rejoicing with exceeding joy....
The earthquake at midnight:...
AND AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS PRAYED, AND SANG PRAISES UNTO GOD; AND THE PRISONERS HEARD THEM....
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
BUT AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS WERE PRAYING AND SINGING HYMNS TO GOD, AND THE PRISONERS WERE LISTENING TO THEM. 1. Prisons were dark, damp dungeons. But in the middle of the night, Paul and Silas wer...
"But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them"Praying and singing hymns" Unable to sleep and find any physical comfort, they focu...
25-34 The consolations of God to his suffering servants are neither few nor small. How much more happy are true Christians than their prosperous enemies! As in the dark, so out of the depths, we may...
No time or place where prayer is not acceptable unto God, and prevalent with him; nay, it sounds the sweeter when on the waters of affliction a good man pours it forth unto God. SANG PRAISES UNTO GOD,...
25. The condition of the two brethren, as night drew on, was miserable to a degree scarcely conceivable. Besides the physical pain of sitting in a dark dungeon, with their backs bleeding from the scou...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II For there is no use of a sleeping man, as there is not of a dead man. Wherefore we ought often to rise by night and bless God.[180] Tertullian On Prayer...
Acts 16:25 But G1161 at G2596 midnight G3317 Paul G3972 and G2532 Silas G4609 praying G4336 (G5740) hymns...
MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description of P...
ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT LEAD TO ADDITIONS TO THE CHURCH IN PHILIPPI (16:19-34). But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pockets. They did not care about the girl herself, they had...
‘But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-hou...
Acts 16:25. AND AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS PRAYED, AND SANG PRAISES UNTO GOD. ‘ Peter sleeps in prison between the two soldiers; Paul and Silas sing in the stocks: they cannot raise their hands or ben...
ABOUT MIDNIGHT (κατα δε μεσονυκτιον). Middle of the night, old adjective seen already in Mark 13:35; Luke 11:5 which see.WERE PRAYING AND SINGING (προσευχομενο υμνουν). Present middle participle a...
PRAYED Literally, were praying and singing hymns....
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
ABOUT MIDNIGHT. Note they were praying and singing in spite of their physical condition and the place where they were! SUDDENLY THERE WAS A VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE. This was God's answer. Compare Acts 4:31...
_A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination._ THE PYTHONESS The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as some MSS. give it, a Python spirit. The Python was the s...
_And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone._ APOSTOLIC DUTY AND VICISSITUDES I. Christ’s servants will use whatever power they possess to set the slaves of Satan free. Paul did n...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:25 PRAYING AND SINGING HYMNS TO GOD. Joy for the honor of suffering for Christ is a common theme in Acts 1:1 (see...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:19. THE RULERS, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates (Luke 12:58). Acts 16:20. The MAGISTRATES, στρατηγοί, were the two chief civic authorities (dunmviri) in a Roman colony...
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:16; 2 Corinthians 4:16;...
Prayed and sang praises [π ρ ο σ ε υ χ ο μ ε ν ο ι υ μ ν ο υ ν]. Lit., praying, they sang hymns. The praying and the praise are not described as distinct acts. Their singing of hymns was their prayer,...
The apostles are here, by Satan and his instruments, cast into prison; but observe, they had their prison-comforts. 1. The joy of their hearts runs out at their lips: they sang praises unto God, when...