Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 19:30
When Paul would have gone in to the people — Being above all fear, to plead the cause of his companions, and prove they are not gods which are made with hands.
When Paul would have gone in to the people — Being above all fear, to plead the cause of his companions, and prove they are not gods which are made with hands.
WOULD HAVE ENTERED IN UNTO THE PEOPLE - Probably to have addressed them, and to defend his own cause....
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...
TUMULT AT EPHESUS. A change of religion (for the Way, _cf. Acts 9:2_) bears hardly on certain trades. In ch. 16 the Gospel interfered with the trade of soothsaying; here the art of the silversmith suf...
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....
It happened that at this time there was a great disturbance about The Way. A certain man called Demetrius, who was a silversmith and who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought very considerable profi...
WOULD. was wishing. Greek. _boulomai._ App-102. PEOPLE. Greek. _demos._ See Acts 12:22....
_And when Paul would have entered in unto the people_ This scarcely gives the idea of St Paul's wish, which the Greek contains. Read, with _Rev. Ver._, WAS MINDED TO ENTER IN. Through a strength not h...
ΠΑΎΛΟΥ ΔῈ ΒΟΥΛΟΜΈΝΟΥ ΕἸΣΕΛΘΕΙ͂Ν ΕἸΣ ΤῸΝ ΔΗ͂ΜΟΝ, _and when Paul was minded to enter in unto the people_. Through a strength not his own, the Apostle, feeble in frame though he seems to have been, waxed...
HEATHEN OUTBREAK AGAINST ST PAUL AND HIS TEACHING...
_DEMETRIUS CAUSED A RIOT IN EPHESUS ACTS 19:21-34:_ Paul planned to go to Macedonia, Achaia, Jerusalem, and then to also see Rome. Christianity (That Way) is always in conflict with the evils of the w...
ΒΟΥΛΟΜΈΝΟΥ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΒΟΎΛΟΜΑΙ (G1014) желать, планировать, с _inf._ ΕΊΣΕΛΘΕΪΝ _aor. act. inf., см._ Acts 19:8. ΔΉΜΟΣ (G1218) толпа, народное собрание, ΕΪΩΝ _impf. ind. act. от_...
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....
30, 31. When Paul heard the tumult, and knew that his companions had been dragged within the theater, he could but suppose that they were torn to pieces. This thought alone was intensely harrowing to...
And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. AND WHEN, PAUL WOULD HAVE ENTERED (OR 'WISHED TO ENTER') IN UNTO THE PEOPLE - the deemos (G1218), that is, the...
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...
WHEN PAUL WOULD HAVE ENTERED IN... — We almost see the impetuous zeal which urged the Apostle not to leave his companions to bear the brunt of the attack alone, and the anxious fear which made his fri...
τοῦ δὲ Π. βουλ.: St. Paul was not the man to leave his comrades in the lurch, and he would have followed them with his life in his hands to face the mob of Ephesus; if we may depend upon the picture o...
THE LAWLESSNESS OF SELFISH GREED Acts 19:30 The theater of Ephesus still stands, and the writer of these words has spoken in its mighty enclosure, from the very spot where this town clerk-the model o...
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...
The Riot in Ephesus While Timothy and Erastus were away, a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made shrines of Diana, or Artemis, began to stir people up against Christianity. He called together th...
After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. (22) So he sent...
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...
− 30._And when Paul would. _We may see that Paul’s constancy was coupled with modesty. When as he might well have kept himself out of sight, of his own accord was he prepared to put himself in hazard....
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...
AND WHEN PAUL WOULD HAVE ENTERED IN UNTO THE PEOPLE,.... In the theatre, in order to have preached to the people, and to have removed their prejudices against him, and the Gospel preached by him, and...
And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. Ver. 30. _The disciples suffered him not_] _i.e._ They persuaded him otherwise, and prevailed. It is best, if a ma...
_When Paul would have entered in to the people_ Being above all fear, to plead the cause of his companions, and prove they were not gods which were made with hands; _the disciples suffered him not_ Be...
The effect of the speech:...
And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. v. 31. AND CERTAIN OF THE CHIEFS OF ASIA, WHICH WERE HIS FRIENDS, SENT UNTO HIM, DESIRING HIM THAT HE WOULD NOT AD...
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...
AND WHEN PAUL WANTED TO GO IN TO THE PEOPLE, THE DISCIPLES WOULD NOT ALLOW HIM. 1. Paul was ready to face the mob and try to calm the situation. 2. The disciples saw the great danger involved in bei...
21-31 Persons who came from afar to pay their devotions at the temple of Ephesus, bought little silver shrines, or models of the temple, to carry home with them. See how craftsmen make advantage to t...
PAUL WOULD HAVE ENTERED IN UNTO THE PEOPLE; being desirous either to appease the tumult; or, if the worst came of it, to die for Christ's sake. THE DISCIPLES SUFFERED HIM NOT, by their entreaties; to...
30, 31. When Paul heard the tumult, and knew that his companions had been dragged within the theater, he could but suppose that they were torn to pieces. This thought alone was intensely harrowing to...
Acts 19:30 And G1161 when G1014 Paul G3972 wanted G1014 (G5740) go G1525 (G5629) in G1519 people...
‘And when Paul was of a mind to enter in to the people, the disciples did not let him.' On recognising the situation, and concerned for his companions who had been seized, Paul bravely wanted to go in...
A STIRRING IN EPHESUS ON ACCOUNT OF THE NAME OF ARTEMIS (19:23-41). In considering what follows we should note two things about its context: · Firstly that it introduces the final section of Acts (Ac...
PAUL'S JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM AND THEN TO ROME (19:21-28:31). Here we begin a new section of Acts. It commences with Paul's purposing to go to Jerusalem, followed by an incident, which, while it brings...
Acts 19:30. THE DISCIPLES SUFFERED HIM NOT. Paul with his customary chivalrous courtesy would not suffer his ‘companions in travel' to be exposed to danger without his being at their side to defend th...
AND WHEN PAUL WAS MINDED TO ENTER IN UNTO THE PEOPLE (Παυλου δε βουλομενου εισελθειν εις τον δημον). Genitive absolute. Plainly Paul wanted to face the howling mob, whether it was the occasion pict...
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...
THAT THERE WAS SERIOUS TROUBLE. Things had been peaceful up to now. Notice trouble starts from a Gentile source. MADE SILVER MODELS OF THE TEMPLE. The temple of Artemis [Diana] was one of the wonders...
_A certain man named Demetrius._ PAUL AND DEMETRIUS The application of these words to present day life is a task that might be assigned to a child. Demetrius never dies; his word is to be heard in ev...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:23. THE WAY.—See on Acts 9:2. Acts 19:24. DEMETRIUS.—The name has been found in an inscription, exhumed in Ephesus and supposed (Hicks) to belong to A.D. 50–60, recording a...
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 Samuel 18:2; 2 Samuel 18:3; 2 Samuel 21:17; Acts 14:14; Acts 17:2
Observe here, 1. The undaunted courage of St. Paul in the cause of Christ: he resolves to adventure his life, by going into the theatre, there to make an apology for himself and his companions, and in...