Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 22:4
And persecuted this way — With the same zeal that you do now. Binding both men and women — How much better was his condition, now he was bound himself.
And persecuted this way — With the same zeal that you do now. Binding both men and women — How much better was his condition, now he was bound himself.
Verse Acts 22:4. _I PERSECUTED THIS WAY_] Ταυτην την ὁδον; _This doctrine,_ _the way_ of worshipping God, and arriving at a state of blessedness. Acts 9:2. _BINDING AND DELIVERING INTO PRISONS_] Ac...
AND I PERSECUTED - Acts 8:3. THIS WAY - Those who were of this mode of worshipping God; that is, Christians. See the notes on Acts 9:2. UNTO THE DEATH - Intending to put them to death. He did not pro...
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Address of the Apostle (Acts 22:1)._ 2. The Answer from the Mob, and Paul's Appeal to His Roman citizenship (Acts 22:22). What a scene it was! On the stairs, midway between the t...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. The opening of the speech is like that of Stephen (Acts 7:2). In 2 Corinthians 11:22 Paul attests his full membership of the Jewish people, and having lived many years in Pa...
"Men, brethren and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to you." When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they gave him still more quietness. So he said, "I am a...
THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
THIS. Emph. WAY. See Acts 9:2. UNTO. as far as. THE. Omit. BINDING. Greek. _desmeuo_. Only here and Matthew 23:4. DELIVERING. Same as "commit" in Acts 8:3. WOMEN. Compare
_And I persecuted this way_, &c. On "the Way" as the designation of the Christian religion, cp. note on Acts 9:2 We are not told of any Christians who were put to death through Saul's zealous persecut...
ὋΣ ΤΑΎΤΗΝ ΤῊΝ ὉΔῸΝ ἘΔΊΩΞΑ ἌΧΡΙ ΘΑΝΆΤΟΥ, _and I persecuted this Way unto the death_. On ἡ ὁδὸς as the designation of the Christian religion, cf. note on Acts 9:2. We are not told of any Christians who...
Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
_PAUL'S BIRTH, EDUCATION AND PREJUDICES ACTS 22:1-5:_ The term "men, brethren and fathers" was a term used often among the Jews in Paul's' day. He was happy to answer the charges of speaking against t...
ΈΔΙΩΞΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΏΚΩ (G1377) преследовать, охотиться, гнать, ΔΕΣΜΕΎΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΕΣΜΕΎΩ (G1195) связывать, заключать в цепи. Part, образа действия, объясняет, как он преследо...
AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH,— We know that he was concerned in the death of Stephen: ch. Acts 8:1 and if he was not so in that of many more, it was not for want of zeal and rage, but mere...
c. Paul addresses the Jewish mob. Acts 22:1-21. Acts 22:1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you. Acts 22:2 And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew l...
See notes on verse 3...
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. And I persecuted this ('the') way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons ......
40 God acts in marvelous ways. Human opposition works out his purposes quite as effectively as human help. What better means could be devised to get all Jerusalem as well as representatives from the d...
ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE 1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1) hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (3) the desecration of the Temple. He answers all these...
THIS WAY] i.e. Christianity: see Acts 9:2....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 22 PAUL SPEAKS TO THE CROWD, 22:1-21 V1 ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! I will explain what happened.’ V2 The crowd became even quieter. T...
AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY. — The speaker obviously uses the current colloquial term (see Notes on Acts 9:2; Acts 19:23), used by the disciples as indicating that they had found in Christ the way of et...
ταύτην τὴν ὁδὸν, see above Acts 9:2. ἄχρι θανάτου : sometimes taken to mean not that he prosecuted the Christians “unto death” (for if this was the meaning the following participles would sound feeble...
HOW HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED Acts 22:1 What a sermon Paul preached! His pulpit, the steps that ascended from the Temple level to the Castle of Antonia. His audience, the frenzied crowds who filled the co...
Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the Gentiles. In that defense the last word he was permitted to utter w...
Paul's First Defense Since his audience was primarily Jewish, Paul addressed them as "Brethren and fathers" (Acts 2:29; Acts 7:2; Acts 13:26). The defense he wants them to hear is much like verbal arg...
_This way. That is, the Christian faith, which now I profess. (Witham)_...
Paul now proceeds to vindicate himself by relating his experience, giving his Cilician nativity and his education in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel, the champion theologian, his identity with the p...
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 4._I persecuted this way. _This is the second point, that he was an enemy to Christ’s doctrine, and that he was more fervent in resisting the same than all the rest, until he was pulled back by the...
He departs therefore to Jerusalem; and when there, he goes to the house of James, and all the elders assemble. Paul relates to them the work of God among the Gentiles. They turn to their Judaism, of w...
AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH,.... That is, the Christian religion, and the professors of it; whom the apostle breathed out threatenings and slaughter against, haled out of their houses, an...
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. Ver. 4. _See Trapp on "_ Act 9:1 _"_...
_I am verily a Jew_, &c. This defence answers all that is objected, Acts 21:28. But he speaks closely and nervously, in a few words, because the time was short; _born in Tarsus, yet brought up in this...
THIS WAY; the christian cause....
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:1 Concerning Paul's early life and persecution of the Church:...
AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH, BINDING AND DELIVERING INTO PRISONS BOTH MEN AND WOMEN,...
The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts more serious attention. He has been practically convicted by...
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, 1. Paul gained fame as a persecutor of the church. 2. Many were well aware of his early history, reputatio...
"And. persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons" See Acts 9:1 ff; Acts 26:9 ff. His opposition to Christianity had been as great as theirs. "He recounted ho...
1-11 The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was who...
THIS WAY; the doctrine and practice of Christianity. UNTO THE DEATH; as much as in him lies, being one of the most furious persecutors, that hunted for the precious life, _breathing out threatenings a...
Acts 22:4 I G3739 persecuted G1377 (G5656) this G5026 Way G3598 to G891 death G2288 binding G1195 ...
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you al...
Acts 22:4. AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH, BINDING AND DELIVERING INTO PRISONS BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. In support of his assertion that he, too, was once a Jewish ‘zealot,' he reminds them that...
AND I (ος).I WHO , literally.THIS WAY (ταυτην την οδον). The very term used for Christianity by Luke concerning Paul's persecution (Acts 9:2), which see. Here it "avoids any irritating name for...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith),_ Men...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before the multitude. Recounts his conversion. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, chief captain. CONCLUSION: God's servants who are set upon with rage and fury because o...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers;_ that is, men of mixed nations assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help. _Brethren,_ religious persons of the stock of Israel. _Fat...
I PERSECUTED to THE DEATH. He did this because he thought his loyalty to God demanded it! THE HIGH PRIEST AND THE WHOLE COUNCIL. A different man was high priest now, than when Paul had been "deputized...
_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence._ PAUL’S DEFENCE 1. Whether we consider the man, the circumstances, the speech, or the effect produced, this address is worthy to be ranked among the...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 22:4 On Paul’s persecution of the Christians, see Acts 8:3 and Acts 9:1. THIS WAY. See note on
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 22:1. MEN, BRETHREN AND FATHERS.—Or, _brethren and fathers,_ the use of “men” in English being unnecessary. Compare the commencement of Stephen’s address to the Sanhedrim (Acts...
EXPOSITION ACTS 22:1 _Brethren _for _men, brethren, _A.V. (Acts 7:2, note); the for my, A.V.; _now make _for _make now, _A.V. THE DEFENSE; ἀπολογία This is the technical word in classical Greek for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the twenty-second chapter of Acts. Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic moment. Paul in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit...
1 Corinthians 15:9; 1 Timothy 1:13; Acts 16:17; Acts 18:26; Acts 1
Way. See on ch. Acts 9:2....