Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 18:23
He went over the country of Galatia and Phrygia — It is supposed, spending about four years therein, including the time he stayed at Ephesus.
He went over the country of Galatia and Phrygia — It is supposed, spending about four years therein, including the time he stayed at Ephesus.
Verse Acts 18:23. _WENT OVER_ ALL _THE COUNTRY OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA_] Both were provinces of Asia Minor: Acts 2:10. _IN ORDER_] καθεξης, A word peculiar to St. Luke; see his Gospel, Luke 1:3;...
THE COUNTRY OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA - He had been over these regions before, preaching the gospel, Acts 16:6. STRENGTHENING - Establishing them by exhortation and counsel. See the notes on Acts 14:22....
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...
JOURNEY TO SYRIA. No special object, is stated; the facts are placed before us abruptly, and some are hard to understand. An apostle is by his office a traveller who does not give himself to any one c...
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...
After Paul had remained there many days longer he took leave of the brethren and sailed away to Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila went with him. At Cenchrea he had his head shorn for he had a vow. They...
AFTER, &C. Literally having made. See Acts 15:33. SOME TIME. Probably three months. It was from Antioch he had gone forth on his first missionary journey; it had happier associations for him than Jer...
PAUL LEAVES CORINTH TO GO INTO SYRIA, HALTING A SHORT TIME AT CENCHREÆ, AND SOMEWHAT LONGER AT EPHESUS. HE LANDS AT CÆSAREA, GOES UP TO JERUSALEM, AND FROM THENCE TO ANTIOCH, AND AFTER A TIME DEPARTS...
ΚΑῚ ΠΟΙΉΣΑΣ ΧΡΌΝΟΝ ΤΙΝΆ, _and after he had spent some time there_. As they had experienced for themselves the troubles of the Judaizers, the people at Antioch would sympathize with the Apostle, if he...
_PAUL WATERED WHAT HE HAD PLANTED ACTS 18:18-23:_ At Cenchrea Paul shaved his head because of a vow he had made. One would be hard pressed to prove that this vow was one peculiar to the Law, which it...
ΠΟΙΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать; здесь: проводить время. ΈΞΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить, ΔΙΕΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (conymcme.)_ от ΔΙΈΡΧΟ...
AND AFTER HE HAD SPENT SOME TIME THERE,— After St. Paul had made some stay in Antioch, he set out upon his third apostolic journey, and went through _Galatia and Phrygia,_ καθεξης, _from church to chu...
THE THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY Acts 18:23, Acts 21:16 1. IN ANTIOCH OF SYRIA. Acts 18:23 a. Acts 18:23 a And having spent some
23. In accordance with this plan, he gives but a brief glance at the apostle's stay in Antioch, and the first part of his third missionary tour. (23) "_Having spent some time there, he departed, passi...
And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. AND AFTER HE HAD SPENT SOME TIME THERE (BUT PRO...
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...
THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY, AUG. 52 A.D. TO PENTECOST 56 A.D. (ACTS 18:23 TO ACTS 21:16) 23. Visit to Galatia. St. Paul revisits Antioch in Syria and the Churches of Galatia and Phrygia, founded in the...
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONCLUDED) 1-18. St. Paul at Corinth. Corinth was the capital of the Roman province of Achaia. The ancient town had been entirely destroyed in 146 b.c. by the Roman general...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 18 PAUL GOES TO CORINTH, 18:1-4 V1 After this, Paul left Athens and he went to Corinth. V2 In Corinth, he met a *Jew called Aquila. Aquila had...
WENT OVER ALL THE COUNTRY OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA IN ORDER. — It is clear from the Epistle to the Galatians that on this visit he found few traces, or none at all, of the work of the Judaisers. The cha...
ποιήσας χρόνον τινὰ : St. Paul would naturally have spent some time in a place so associated with the origin of Gentile Christianity, and with his own labours, the starting place of each of his missio...
NEW HELPERS IN THE GOSPEL Acts 18:18 In unimportant matters Paul was still amenable to Hebrew customs and rites, Acts 18:18. Probably he desired to conciliate his Judaizing opponents so far as he cou...
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...
Paul's Return to Antioch Paul spent a short time preaching in the synagogue in Ephesus. He promised to return if it was God's will, left Priscilla and Aquila and sailed on to Caesarea. The apostle ma...
Down to Antioch and into Syria, Phrygia and Galatia, where I trow he had established churches, _i. e_., little holiness bands in private houses, while at home, in Tarsus, A. D. 35-38, _“establishing a...
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary...
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...
At Thessalonica Paul twice received succour from Philippi; at Corinth, where money and commerce abounded, he does not take it, but quietly works with two of his countrymen of the same trade as himself...
AND AFTER HE HAD SPENT SOME TIME THERE,.... At Antioch: HE DEPARTED; from thence: AND WENT OVER ALL THE COUNTRY OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA IN ORDER, STRENGTHENING ALL THE DISCIPLES; that were in those p...
And after he had spent some time _there_, he departed, and went over _all_ the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. Ver. 23. _Strengthening all the disciples_] Fo...
_And he came to Ephesus_ The ship in which they sailed probably having occasion to touch there. _And he entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews_ Upon whom his discourse made such an imp...
GALATIA AND PHRYGIA; provinces which he had before visited. STRENGTHENING ALL THE DISCIPLES; confirming their faith in the gospel and encouraging them to persevere in holy living....
The beginning of the third missionary journey:...
AND AFTER HE HAD SPENT SOME TIME THERE, HE DEPARTED AND WENT OVER ALL THE COUNTRY OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA IN ORDER, STRENGTHENING ALL THE DISCIPLES....
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...
AFTER HE HAD SPENT SOME TIME _THERE,_ HE DEPARTED AND WENT OVER THE REGION OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA IN ORDER, STRENGTHENING ALL THE DISCIPLES. 1. He did spend a little time in Antioch and geared up to...
18-23 While Paul found he laboured not in vain, he continued labouring. Our times are in God's hand; we purpose, but he disposes; therefore we must make all promises with submission to the will of Go...
HAD SPENT SOME TIME THERE; this work might take up the constant care and indefatigable pains of the apostle. GALATIA; where he had converted many. PHRYGIA: see ACTS 16:6. STRENGTHENING ALL THE DISCIPL...
23. In accordance with this plan, he gives but a brief glance at the apostle's stay in Antioch, and the first part of his third missionary tour. (23) "_ Having spent some time there, he departed, pass...
Acts 18:23 G2532 spent G4160 (G5660) some G5100 time G5550 departed G1831 (G5627) over G1330 ...
‘And having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.' Having spent some time in Syrian Antioch, during which t...
Acts 18:23. AND AFTER HE HAD SPENT SOME TIME THERE. Many expositors suppose that during this residence of St. Paul at Antioch took place his famous interview with the leading apostle of the circumcisi...
HAVING SPENT SOME TIME (ποιησας χρονον τινα). Literally, having done some time. How long we do not know, probably not long. There are those who place the visit of Peter here to which Paul alludes i...
Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1. _After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth:_ Another most i...
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,...
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...
PAUL STAYED ON IN CORINTH. This may be included in the year and a half (Acts 18:11). The point is that he was not forced to leave the area by what the Jews were doing. THEN LEFT THEM AND SAILED OFF. H...
And after he had spent some time [at Antioch] he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia._--_ PAUL’S THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY 1. Nothing was said as to who went with him from C...
_And Paul after this tarried there a good while._ PREPARING FOR LABOUR 1. Paul has conquered his position in Corinth. He seemed to have acquired a right to remain there. And after tarrying “a good wh...
_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 18:23. THE REGION OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA.—See on Acts 16:6. Acts 18:24. A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS—a diminutive or pet name for Apollomos, which occurs in Codex D. (Ramsay)....
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 16:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:14;...