Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 19:20
So powerfully did the word of God grow — In extent, and prevail — In power and efficacy.
So powerfully did the word of God grow — In extent, and prevail — In power and efficacy.
ACTS 19:20 tou/ kuri,ou o` lo,goj hu;xanen kai. i;scuen {B} A majority of the Committee preferred the Alexandrian reading (a* A B), on the consideration that it is more likely that the less usual ord...
Verse Acts 19:20. _SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD, AND PREVAILED._] The Codex Bezae reads this verse thus: "So mightily grew the word of the Lord, and prevailed; _and the faith of God increased and...
SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD - So powerfully. It had such efficacy and power in this wicked city. That power must have been mighty which would thus make them willing not only to cease to practice...
CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The second visit of Paul to Ephesus. The twelve disciples of John (Acts 19:1)._ 2. The Apostle's continued labors. The separation of the disciples. The Province Asia evangelized (Act...
MIRACLES, EXORCISMS, BURNING OF BOOKS OF MAGIC. Peter's shadow cured the sick (Acts 5:15); Paul's minor articles of clothing do the same, according to the widespread belief of antiquity in the indirec...
Some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists tried naming the name of Jesus over those who had evil spirits. They said, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." There were seven sons of a certain Scaeva,...
IN EPHESUS (Acts 19:1-7) Acts 19:1-41 is mainly concerned with Paul's work in Ephesus. He stayed longer there than anywhere else, almost three years. (i) Ephesus (G2181) was the market of Asia Minor....
MIGHTILY. according to strength (Greek. _Kratos._ App-172.) GREW. Greek. _auxano._ Compare Acts 6:7; Acts 12:24. GOD. The texts read "the Lord". PREVAILED. Same word as in. Acts 19:16. This verse is...
_So mightily grew the word of God_, &c. The oldest Greek texts have "the word _of the Lord_" (adopted by _R. V._), The full sense of the words rendered "mightily" is "with overpowering force and stren...
ΟὝΤΩΣ ΚΑΤᾺ ΚΡΆΤΟΣ, _so mightily_. The phrase is common in classical Greek in the sense of ‘with all one’s power and might.’...
PAUL PREACHES TO THE JEWS FIRST AND AFTERWARDS TO THE GENTILES. THE WORD OF GOD PREVAILS MIGHTILY...
_BOOKS ABOUT WITCHCRAFT WERE BURNED ACTS 19:11-20:_ God blessed Paul with the power to work great miracles. Many sick people were healed and evil sprits were cast out. Some vagabond Jews took it upon...
ΗΎΞΑΝΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΑΎΞΆΝΩ (G837) расти. _Impf._ изображает длительный рост, ΊΣΧΥΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΙΣΧΎΩ, _см._ Acts 19:16....
DISCOURSE: 1795 GENUINE REPENTANCE Acts 19:18. _And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and turned...
AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME, &C.— Exorcisms and incantations had been very much practised at Ephesus: the Gentiles there imagined that Diana, or the moon, presided over their incantations; but upon th...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Special Study PAUL'S POWER TO GIVE CHARISMATIC POWER (Acts 19:1-41) A. There is much ambiguous, scripturally-imprecise and confusing exegesis of Acts 19:1-7 being done today. 1....
See notes on verse 18...
_SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD AND PREVAILED._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
18 Many believers still clung to their old practices, but when they found that the Lord was greater than the demons whom they feared, they abandoned their false arts. They gave up the scrolls which ta...
EPHESUS 1-41. Paul at Ephesus. Opposition of the manufacturers of idols. St. Paul, leaving Antioch in S. Galatia (see Acts 18:23), approached Ephesus not by the usual level route leading through Colos...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 PAUL IN EPHESUS, 19:1-10 V1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was travelling. He travelled through the *province on the higher road. He arr...
SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD AND PREVAILED. — The verbs imply a continuous growth. The better MSS. give, “the word _of the Lord.” _...
κατὰ κράτος : adverbial, so only here in N.T., _cf._ Judges 4:3, and Jos., _Ant._, viii., 11, 3, in classical Greek, Xen., _Cyr._, i., 4, 23, etc. ηὔξ. καὶ ἴσ.: in contrast to the empty superstitions...
THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME Acts 19:13 Where God's spirit is mightily at work, Satan is not far away. Here the enemy's emissaries were mean enough to use the name of Jesus to get themselves a few more s...
The result of the work of Apollos was manifest when Paul reached Ephesus. There he found a company of sincere disciples to Jesus as He had been revealed by John. To them Paul declared the truth in its...
Magnifying Jesus' Name God caused some great miracles to be worked through Paul. Even pieces of cloth, like a handkerchief or apron, which had touched his body could be placed on the body of the sick...
And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. (9) But when divers were hardened, and believed not,...
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...
− 20._Grew mightily _[ _lions. _] The word κατα κρατος doth signify that the word increased not a little, (or that these proceedings were not common) as if he should say, that in those increasings app...
From Verse 24 of Chapter 18 to Verse 7 of Chapter 19 we have a kind of summary of the progress made by the doctrine of Christ, and of the power that accompanied it. Apollos knew only of the teaching o...
SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD, AND PREVAILED. Over conjuring books, conjurers themselves, yea, even the devils; the power of God going along with it, many were converted; which is meant by the incr...
So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed. Ver. 20. _So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed_] Happy it is for a people or person, when the word falls upon their spirits in the power of i...
_And this_ Acknowledgment of the divine authority of Jesus and Paul, made in the absence of both; or this fact, concerning the possessed man, thus prevailing against the sons of Sceva; _was known to a...
A further result of this event:...
SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD AND PREVAILED. The beating which the exorcists received in consequence of their unwarranted use of the name of Jesus had a good effect also upon the disciples that had...
Paul returned to Ephesus, as he had promised. Of course there was an assembly there already, as chapter 18:27 intimates; but he found certain disciples who, at his questioning, tell him they had not e...
SO THE WORD OF THE LORD GREW MIGHTILY AND PREVAILED. 1. Word spread rapidly. The church was growing quickly. 2. The church was becoming strong. It was strong and getting stronger. The Greek word her...
New Testament Times. Tenney p. 277. Acts 19:1 AFA Journal. March 1996 p. 2....
13-20 It was common, especially among the Jews, for persons to profess or to try to cast out evil spirits. If we resist the devil by faith in Christ, he will flee from us; but if we think to resist h...
The increase which the seed of the word had made was very remarkable; or it is a great instance of the power of God's word, when it makes men willing to part with their beloved and accustomed sins, an...
Acts 19:20 So G3779 word G3056 Lord G2962 grew G837 (G5707) mightily G2596 G2904 and G2532 prevailed...
PAUL'S CONTINUING MINISTRY IN EPHESUS (19:8-20). Meanwhile we are reminded that Paul's' ministry continues in Ephesus in the proclamation of the Kingly Rule of God (compare Acts 1:3; Acts 8:12; Acts 1...
‘So mightily grew the word of the Lord and prevailed.' Thus was the mighty working of the word revealed. The word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed, and this in contrast to the word of Satan whi...
Acts 19:20. SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD AND PREVAILED. Somewhere about this time Paul wrote his First Epistle to the Corinthians. It is more than probable that when he penned the words, ‘For a gr...
MIGHTILY (κατα κρατος). According to strength. Only here in N.T., common military term in Thucydides. Such proof of a change counted.GREW AND PREVAILED (ηυξανεν κα ισχυεν). Imperfect actives, kep...
CONTENTS: Paul at Ephesus. Disciples of John the Baptist become Christians. Paul in the synagogue and in the school of Tyrannus. Paul's miracles. Uproar of the silversmiths. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 19:1. _Paul came to Ephesus,_ a city of Ionia, built by the Amezones. Its temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the world; but Pompey plundered it of all its riches. This city is now in...
ALL THE JEWS AND GENTILES. Ephesus was a center of magic and the black arts. This happening would have a strong effect on those who sold magic charms, etc., and would honor the Christ whom Paul preach...
_So mightily grew the Word of God and prevailed._ THE GROWING AND PREVAILING GOSPEL 1. This is a despatch from the seat of war announcing a glorious victory for the royal arms. 2. Past triumphs of...
_And he welt into the synagogue._ PAUL’S MINISTRY AT EPHESUS I. Wonderful preaching. 1. Manner of the preaching. (1) It was bold (Act 4:31; 2 Corinthians 7:4; Philippians 1:14). (2) It was logical...
_While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul … came to Ephesus._ --Ephesus was the third capital and starting point of Christianity At Jerusalem Christianity was born in the cradle of Judaism; Antioch had been...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:13. VAGABOND.—_I.e._, wandering about, or strolling JEWS, EXORCISTS, by profession (compare Matthew 12:8). “They appear to have regarded Paul as one of their own class, but...
EXPOSITION ACTS 19:1 _Country _for _coasts, _A.V.; _found _for _finding, _A.V. and T.R. THE UPPER COUNTRY (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through which St. Paul...
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth [watering what Paul had planted], Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus; and there he found certain disciples [that no dou...
2 Thessalonians 3:1; Acts 12:24; Acts 6:7; Isaiah 55:11...