Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 18:3
They were tent makers by trade — For it was a rule among the Jews (and why is it not among the Christians?) to bring up all their children to some trade, were they ever so rich or noble.
They were tent makers by trade — For it was a rule among the Jews (and why is it not among the Christians?) to bring up all their children to some trade, were they ever so rich or noble.
ACTS 18:3 hvrga,zeto Æ eivrga,zeto {B} The plural hvrga,zonto in several Alexandrian witnesses is probably an accommodation to the plural forms immediately preceding and following....
ACTS 18:2-4 The original form of the Western text, which in verses Acts 18:2 and Acts 18:3 codex Bezae presents in a form somewhat accommodated to the A...
Verse Acts 18:3. _HE ABODE WITH THEM, AND WROUGHT_] Bp. Pearce observes that it was a custom among the Jews, even of such as had a better education than ordinary, which was Paul's case, Acts 22:3, to...
THE SAME CRAFT - Of the same trade or occupation. AND WROUGHT - And worked at that occupation. Why he did it the historian does not affirm; but it seems pretty evident that it was because he had no ot...
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...
PAUL AT CORINTH. Corinth (p. 832), the seat of the Roman proconsul, was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and luxury...
After this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth. There he found a Jew called Aquila, who was a native of Pontus, but who had newly arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had decr...
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...
OF THE SAME CRAFT. Greek. _homotechnos._ Only here.. word applied by physicians to one another. The medical profession was called the healing art (Greek. _techne)_. ABODE. was abiding. See Acts 16:15...
_And because he was of the same craft_ Among the Jews every Rabbi deemed it proper to practise some handicraft, and they have a proverb about R. Isaac, who was a smith, "Better is the sentence of the...
ΚΑῚ ΔΙᾺ ΤῸ ὉΜΌΤΕΧΝΟΝ ΕἾΝΑΙ, _and because he was of the same craft_. Among the Jews every Rabbi deemed it proper to practise some handicraft, and they have a proverb about R. Isaac, who was a smith, ‘B...
Acts 18:1-11. PAUL GOES FROM ATHENS TO CORINTH, LABOURS THERE WITH HIS OWN HANDS FOR HIS MAINTENANCE. HE IS ENCOURAGED IN HIS PREACHING BY A VISION OF THE LORD...
_PAUL'S GREAT SUCCESS AT CORINTH ACTS 18:1-11:_ After Paul's sermon in the Areopagus and the good result of it he traveled to Corinth. At Corinth he associated with Aquila and his wife Priscilla. They...
ΟΜΌΤΕΧΝΟΣ (G3673) то же ремесло. Акила и Прискилла, вероятно, имели небольшое свое дело, они делали палатки и навесы (SC, 158-64; ВВС), ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Inf._ с ΔΙΑ (G1...
AND BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME CRAFT,— Aquila and Priscilla seem to have had a house at Corinth; for they had settled so far in that city, as to enter upon their usual employment, which was to make _t...
IN CORINTH. Acts 18:1-17. Acts 18:1 After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. Acts 18:2 And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Ita...
See notes on verse 2...
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. AND BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME CRAFT, HE ABODE WITH THEM. Whether this couple we...
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...
ST PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, 49, 50 A.D. (ACTS 15:36 TO ACTS 18:22) Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his missionary labo...
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...
TENTMAKERS] All Jews, however wealthy, were taught a trade....
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...
BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME CRAFT. — The calling was one which St. Paul had probably learnt and practised in his native city, which was noted then, as now, for the rough goat’s-hair fabrics known to th...
διὰ τὸ ὁμότεχνον : the word is peculiar to St. Luke, and although it is found in classical Greek and in Josephus, it is not used in the LXX, and it may be regarded as a technical word used by physicia...
A GREAT MINISTRY IN A GREAT CITY Acts 18:1 Paul tells us, in 1 Corinthians 2:1, that he entered Corinth with fear and trembling and made no effort to attract by human wisdom or eloquence. From the f...
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...
Tentmaking With Aquila and Priscilla In Corinth, Paul found two Jews, Aquila, who was from Pontus which was a province between Bithynia and Armenia, and his wife Priscilla, who was also known as Prisc...
Critics are divided in their opinion about the nature of St. Paul's employment: but it is generally supposed to be making tents of skins, such as were formerly used by travellers and soldiers. (Tirinu...
Fortunately Aquila and Priscilla, devout Jews, driven from Rome by the Emperor Claudius, also experts in tent building, fall in with him, becoming his first converts to the Christhood of Jesus and swe...
After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth; (2) And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; because that (Claudius had...
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...
− 3._They were of the same trade. _This place teacheth that Paul, before he came to Corinth, was wont to work with his hands; and that not upon pleasure, but that he might get his living with his hand...
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 BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME CRAFT, Art, occupation, or trade: HE ABODE WITH THEM; in the same house in which they were: AND WROUGHT; with his own hands, to support himself, for he was a stranger...
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. Ver. 3. _He abode with them and wrought_] Being no less busy in his shop among his...
_And found a certain Jew_ Afterward converted to the faith of Christ, (Acts 18:26,) doubtless by the instrumentality of Paul; _born in Pontus_ A province of the Lesser Asia, not far from Galatia and C...
CRAFT; trade, or occupation. THEY WERE TENT - MAKERS; it was the custom of the Jews to have their sons taught some mechanical art; that they might thus, in any emergency, be able to provide for themse...
AND BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME CRAFT, HE ABODE WITH THEM AND WROUGHT; FOR BY THEIR OCCUPATION THEY WERE TENT-MAKERS....
PAUL AT CORINTH. Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:...
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...
SO, BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME TRADE, HE STAYED WITH THEM AND WORKED; FOR BY OCCUPATION THEY WERE TENTMAKERS. 1. Dual occupation - Some preachers also work at another occupation and also work for a...
"and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought, for by their trade they were tentmakers" "Because he was of the same trade" Notice how God is taking care of Paul. He needs...
1-6 Though Paul was entitled to support from the churches he planted, and from the people to whom he preached, yet he worked at his calling. An honest trade, by which a man may get his bread, is not...
OF THE SAME CRAFT; the most learned amongst the Jews did always learn some handicraft, and it was one of those things which they held a father was bound to do for his child, viz. to teach him some tra...
Acts 18:3 So G2532 because G1223 was G1511 (G5750) trade G3673 stayed G3306 (G5707) with G3844 them...
We are not told whether they formed a partnership, or whether Paul worked for Aquila as an employee, but they worked together as tentmakers/leatherworkers. It was customary for a Rabbi to have learned...
SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY IN CORINTH (18:1-17). Paul had recognised that in a small town like Athens he could well spare his companions and had sent Timothy off to Thessalonica, and Silas to Macedonia, pos...
Acts 18:3. AND BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME CRAFT, HE ABODE WITH THEM, AND WROUGHT (FOR BY THEIR OCCUPATION THEY WERE TENTMAKERS). We have here the first mention of the handicraft by which, during so ma...
BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME TRADE (δια το ομοτεχνον εινα). Same construction with δια as above. Hομοτεχνον is an old word (ομοσ, τεχνη), though here alone in N.T. Rabbi Judah says: "He that teacheth...
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...
AND STAYED AND WORKED WITH THEM. They both made tents. Every Jewish boy was taught a manual trade, no matter what future had been planned for him. They said: _"Whoever does not teach his son to work,...
_And found a certain Jew named Aquila … with his wife Priscilla._ AQUILA AND PRISCILLA No book is less systematic than the Bible, yet none has so complete a code of faith and duty. Its statements of...
_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...
_After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth._ PAUL AT CORINTH Paul entered, not the grand, classical Corinth, but a sort of afterglow Corinth. The old city had been destroyed by...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:1. PAUL.—Omitted in the best texts. How long the Apostle stayed in Athens—Weiseler suggests fourteen days; Ramsay, three or four weeks—and how he CAME TO CORINTH, whether b...
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 4:12; 1 Corinthians 9:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Corinthians 11:9;...
Of the same craft [ο μ ο τ ε χ ν ο ν] It was a Rabbinical principle that whoever does not teach his son a trade is as if he brought him up to be a robber. All the Rabbinical authorities in Christ's ti...