Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 28:20
The hope of Israel — What Israel hopes for, namely, the Messiah and the resurrection.
The hope of Israel — What Israel hopes for, namely, the Messiah and the resurrection.
Verse Acts 28:20. _FOR THE HOPE OF ISRAEL I AM BOUND_, c.] As if he had said: This, and this alone, is the cause of my being delivered into the hands of the Romans I have proclaimed _Jesus_ as the _M...
BECAUSE THAT FOR THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - On account of the hope which the Jews cherish of the coming of the Messiah; of the resurrection; and of the future state. See this explained in the notes on Acts...
CHAPTER 28 _ 1. In the Island of Melita (Acts 28:1)._ 2. The arrival in Rome (Acts 28:11). 3. Paul calling the chief of the Jews and his message (Acts 28:17). Melita, which means “honey,” is the is...
INTERVIEW WITH THE JEWS AT ROME. Acts 28:30 is continuous with Acts 28:16. In Acts 28:17 the programme ascribed to Paul in Ac., that he addresses the Jews first, the Gentiles when the Jews have proved...
WELCOME AT MALTA (Acts 28:1-6)...
When we arrived in Rome, permission was given to Paul to stay in his own house with the soldier who was his guard. After three days he invited the leaders of the Jews to come to see him. When they had...
CALLED FOR. Greek. _parakaleo,_ as in Acts 28:14. SPEAK WITH. Greek. _proslaleo._ See Acts 13:43. FOR. Greek. _henek_. _n_. First occurance. Matthew 5:10 (for the sake of). the hope of I
_For this cause therefore have I called for you to see you, and to speak with you_ [_R. V._"did I intreat you to see and to speak with _me_"] As the marginal note in the _R. V._shews, the A. V. may be...
ΔΙᾺ ΤΑΎΤΗΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΤῊΝ ΑἸΤΊΑΝ ΠΑΡΕΚΆΛΕΣΑ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ἸΔΕΙ͂Ν ΚΑῚ ΠΡΟΣΛΑΛΗ͂ΣΑΙ, _for this cause therefore have I called for you to see and to speak with you_. It is possible in this sentence either to take ὑμᾶς...
ST PAUL’S INTERVIEW WITH THE JEWS IN ROME...
_PAUL'S CONFERENCE WITH THE JEWS ACTS 28:17-22:_ Immediately after Paul reached Rome (three days), he called together some of the Jews. He explained that he had done nothing against the Jews or the cu...
ΠΑΡΕΚΆΛΕΣΑ _aor. ind. act._, ем. ст. 14. ΙΔΕΊ Ν _aor. act. inf. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. _Inf._ в косвенной речи, ΠΡΟΣΛΑΛΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΡΟΣΛΑΛΈΩ (G4354) говорить с кем-л. ΈΝΕΚΕΝ (G1752) и...
FOR THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL— "My sufferings arise from my regard to that glorious Messiah for whom Israel professes to wait, and to that eternal life which he has purchased, and secured for those that rec...
AT ROME. Acts 28:16-31. Acts 28:16 And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him. Acts 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days he c...
See notes on verse 17...
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. For this cause therefore have I called for you, to s...
9 Three months busy with blessing thus came out of the catastrophe. Had the ship wintered in Cnidus, as they had wished, or at Ideal Harbors, as Paul proposed, the ship and cargo might indeed have bee...
ST. PAUL A PRISONER AT ROME 1. They.. they] RV 'we.. we.' MELITA] RM 'Melitene.' Melita is certainly Malta, and not (as has been erroneously supposed) Meleda off the Illyrian coast. Tradition correct...
ST. PAUL IN ROME (28:16-31) 16. The captain of the guard] either the captain of the prætorian guard (_proefectus proetorio_), or, more probably, the captain of the troops called _frumentarii_, whose...
THE LORD (i.e. Jesus)] RV 'God.' 23, 24. The four men were Nazirites (see Numbers 6), and St. Paul was advised to pay for their sacrifices, and to associate himself with their Nazirite vow during the...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 28 ON THE ISLAND CALLED MALTA, 28:1-10 V1 We arrived on the shore. We discovered that the island was called Malta. V2 The people who lived ther...
FOR THE HOPE OF ISRAEL I AM BOUND WITH THIS CHAIN. — The mention of “chain” in the singular agrees with the fact stated in Acts 28:30, that he was entrusted to the keeping of a single soldier. There i...
διὰ ταύτην … προσλαλῆσαι : “for this cause therefore did I intreat you to see and to speak with _me_,” R.V. text; in margin a comma is placed after ὑμᾶς, “call for you, to see and to speak with _you_...
STILL SEEKING HIS OWN KINSMEN Acts 28:11 Paul went toward Rome, as we have seen, under very different circumstances from those that he originally anticipated; but, after all, they gave him the greate...
On land new perils threatened. While gathering sticks for a fire, a viper fastened on the apostle's hand. Shaking it off, he was unharmed. This convinced those who watched that he was divine, and they...
After three days in Rome, Paul called for the leaders of the Jews. He explained to them that he was in Rome because of charges brought against him by their brethren in Jerusalem. The authorities had w...
_Because that for the hope of Israel. That is, of the Messias, so long expected and hoped for by the Israelites. (Witham) --- According to the Roman custom, St. Paul must have been fastened by the rig...
And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against th...
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...
− 20._For the hope of Israel. _We must understand much more under these words than Luke expresseth; as we gather out of the answer, where the Jews speak of the sect; to wit, repeating his speech, whic...
At Melita we find him again exercising his accustomed power among that barbarous people. One sees that God is with him. Evangelisation does not, however, appear in the account of his sojourn there, or...
FOR THIS CAUSE THEREFORE HAVE I CALLED FOR YOU,.... To let them know the true state of his case; that though he was a prisoner, it was not for any crime he had done, much less any of a capital nature;...
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see _you_, and to speak with _you_ : because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. Ver. 20. _For the hope of Israel_] That is, for...
_And after three days_ Given to rest and prayer; _Paul called the chief of the Jews together_ His great love to the Jews induced him, wherever he came and found any, to labour in the first place to pr...
THE HOPE OF ISRAEL; the Messiah. All proper efforts should be made to communicate to men correct information, and prevent their becoming so prejudiced as to hinder them from candidly hearing the truth...
FOR THIS CAUSE, THEREFORE, HAVE I CALLED FOR YOU, TO SEE YOU AND TO SPEAK WITH YOU, BECAUSE THAT FOR THE HOPE OF ISRAEL I AM BOUND WITH THIS CHAIN. There was a flourishing congregation in Rome at this...
TWO YEARS AT ROME. Paul calls the Jews together:...
Very soon contacting inhabitants, they found that the island was called Melita, present day Malta. The people are called "barbarous," which only means they were not Greek or Jewish -- not the cultured...
WHO, WHEN THEY HAD EXAMINED ME, WANTED TO LET ME GO, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CAUSE FOR PUTTING ME TO DEATH. 19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had any...
"For. am wearing this chain for the sake of the hope of Israel" Compare with Acts 23:6; Acts 26:6. Paul's message, far from undermining the truthfulness of the Old Testament, is actually the fulfillme...
17-22 It was for the honour of Paul that those who examined his case, acquitted him. In his appeal he sought not to accuse his nation, but only to clear himself. True Christianity settles what is of...
FOR THE HOPE OF ISRAEL: see ACTS 23:6, ACTS 24:21. This _hope_ is either, 1. Of the resurrection, as in the forementioned places; and ACTS 26:6,7; or: 2. The Messiah; Christ is the hope of Israel, so...
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“This is the reason why I entreated you to see and to speak with me, for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.” And it was the reason why he had called them together to see him an...
Acts 28:20. FOR THIS CAUSE THEREFORE HAVE I CALLED FOR YOU, TO SEE YOU, AND TO SPEAK WITH YOU. His love to his own people was so great that the ever-recurring suspicions of his work and conduct on the...
DID I INTREAT (παρεκαλεσα). Did I invite you.BECAUSE OF THE HOPE OF ISRAEL (εινεκεν της ελπιδος του Ισραελ). Genitive with preposition εινεκεν. The hope of the Messiah is his point as in Acts 26:...
Acts 28:20 If we turn to inquire historically what were the elements in the Christian faith by virtue of which chiefly it worked and spread in the early days after the death of Jesus, we find one at l...
Acts 28:1. _And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, bec...
CONTENTS: The landing at Melita. Miracle of the viper's bite. Healing of Publius' father. Paul's arrival at Rome and his ministry there to the Jews. Paul turns to the Gentiles. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Hol...
Acts 28:1. _Melita,_ now Malta. This island seems to have been inhabited by runaways, for _melim,_ in the language of Carthage, is to escape. It was inhabited by a colony of refugees from Carthage, a...
AFTER THREE DAYS. Notice he could not "sit still." Likely the first three days had been spent visiting with the believers. Now he gets down to work! THE LOCAL JEWISH LEADERS. About the time Christ was...
_And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard._ ROME AS SEEN BY PAUL Within a circuit of little more than twelve miles more than two millions of inhabit...
_After three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together._ PAUL’S FIRST CONFERENCE WITH THE JEWISH CHIEFS Note-- I. His address. In justifying himself he states-- 1. That his captivity was not...
_For the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain._ THE CHAIN OF PAUL 1. A disgraceful monument for his blinded people. 2. An honourable sign for the faithful servant of God. 3. A precious comfor...
CHAINS Because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. Acts 28:20. Have you ever tried what it feels like to be fastened to another person by a rope or a chain? Some of you have run three-...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 28:20 THE HOPE OF ISRAEL is the arrival of the Messiah, which is proven by his resurrection (see Acts 23:6;...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 28:17. The best authorities omit PAUL. THE CHIEF OF THE JEWS.—Better, _those that were the chief_ (first, or principal men) _of the Jews_, or, otherwise, those that were of th...
EXPOSITION ACTS 28:1 We for _they, _A.V. and T.R. (twice). WAS CALLED. It reads as if it was the answer to their question to the natives, "What is this island called?" MELITA. That Melita is the isla...
Tonight we'd like to just go through the twenty-eighth chapter of Acts and finish this book so that next Sunday night we move into the first two Chapter s of Romans. That's your reading assignment for...
2 Timothy 1:10; 2 Timothy 2:9; Acts 23:6; Acts 24:15; Acts 26:29;...
I am bound [π ε ρ ι κ ε ι μ α ι]. Lit., compassed....