Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 28:24
And some believed the things that were spoken — With the heart, as well as understanding.
And some believed the things that were spoken — With the heart, as well as understanding.
Verse Acts 28:24. _SOME BELIEVED_, c.] His message was there treated as his Gospel is to the present day: some believe, and are converted others continue in obstinate unbelief, and perish. Could the J...
AND SOME BELIEVED ... - See the notes on Acts 14:4....
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...
THE JEWS ARE HARDENED. It was a numerous meeting; we can scarcely understand the words to mean that more came the second time than the first. The kingdom of God is a wide phrase for the Christian doct...
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...
BELIEVED. were persuaded of. Greek. _peitho,_ as in Acts 28:23. BELIEVED NOT. were disbelieving. Greek. _apisteo._ Elsewhere, Mark 16:11; Mark 16:16;...
_some believed not_ [_R. V._disbelieved]. No doubt both the Sadducees and the Pharisees had their representatives here as elsewhere among the Jewish population....
ΟἹ ΔῈ ἨΠΊΣΤΟΥΝ, _and some believed not_. No doubt Pharisees and Sadducees had their representatives in Rome as elsewhere among the Jewish population....
ST PAUL’S INTERVIEW WITH THE JEWS IN ROME...
_PAUL REMAINED A PRISONER AT ROME ACTS 28:23-31:_ Many Jews came to Paul's house. He used the Law and the Prophets to talk to them about God's kingdom (church). His goal was to "persuade them concerni...
ΈΠΕΊΘΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. pass._, _см._ Acts 28:23. _Impf._ либо указывает на повторяющееся действие, либо inch., "некоторые начали убеждаться" (RWP). ΛΕΓΟΜΈΝΟΙΣ _praes. pass._part., _см._ Acts 28:4. _Ad...
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 23...
And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. What simplicity and candour are in this record of a resul...
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...
28:24 of (a-5) 'Assented to them as true.' It is used of giving credit to a person so as to follow him. as in ch. 5.36, 'obeyed.'...
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...
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...
AND SOME BELIEVED THE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN. — Better, as expressing the fact that the verb is the passive form of that translated “persuade,” in the previous verse, _some were being persuaded of t...
οἱ μὲν … οἱ δὲ …, _cf._ Acts 14:4; Acts 17:32, whether the verb means simply listened to what was said (Rendall), or simply denotes an attitude of receptivity (Nösgen), the fact that Paul addresses to...
PREACHING IN THE WORLD'S CAPITAL Acts 28:21 It was one of the earliest cares of Paul to summon the leading members of the Jewish community, that he might explain to them his position. He made clear t...
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...
(13) And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. (13) The Gospel is a taste of life to those that believe, and a taste of death to those that are disobedient....
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, a...
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...
_PAUL IN ROME_ ‘And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.’ Acts 28:24 It was in the spring of a.d. 61 that St. Paul reached Rome. The aim of his life was fulfilled. The...
− 24._Some believed. _Luke declareth that this was at length the success of the disputation, that they did not all profit − (682) in the same doctrine. We know that the apostle was endued with such gr...
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...
AND SOME BELIEVED THE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN,.... By him, concerning the kingdom of God and Jesus Christ; even as many as were ordained unto eternal life, and to whom it was given to believe; for fa...
And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. Ver. 24. _And some believed not_] The word, as Moses, slays the Egyptian, saves the Israelite. It is to some the savour of life,...
_And some believed the things which were spoken_ Were happily persuaded of the truth of Paul's doctrine, and were induced to embrace Christianity; _and some_ On the other hand, were so much under the...
The same divine truths, presented by the same speaker, are treated by different men in a totally different manner. Some receive and treat them as truths; others reject, and treat them as errors. It is...
AND SOME BELIEVED THE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN, AND SOME BELIEVED NOT. When Paul had made his appeal for a square deal at their hands, the Jews frankly told him that they had received neither any writ...
Paul testifies of the kingdom of God:...
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...
AND SOME WERE PERSUADED BY THE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN, AND SOME DISBELIEVED. 1. Not all will be converted. Some believed. Some were convinced and persuaded by the powerful use of Old Testament Scri...
When the Jews arrived Paul spent all day seeking to persuade these Jews from the Old Testament that Jesus was indeed the one predicted by Moses and the Prophets and that the kingdom of God had actuall...
23-31 Paul persuaded the Jews concerning Jesus. Some were wrought upon by the word, and others hardened; some received the light, and others shut their eyes against it. And the same has always been t...
Thus there are different soils into which the word is cast, as appears in the parable of the sower, MATTHEW 13:19,20, &c. Thus Paul found by experience what he says, 2 THESSALONIANS 3:2, that _all men...
Acts 28:24 And G2532 some G3303 persuaded G3982 (G5712) spoken G3004 (G5746) and G1161 disbelieved G569 ...
‘And some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.' As we might expect some believed what he spoke, and some disbelieved. Compare Acts 13:42; Acts 17:32. They were divided among t...
Acts 28:24. AND SOME BELIEVED THE THINGS THAT WERE SPOKEN, AND SOME BELIEVED NOT. The number of those who rejected the salvation of the Messiah evidently far exceeded the number of those who were conv...
SOME BELIEVED (ο μεν επειθοντο). Imperfect passive indicative of πειθω. More exactly, "some began to be persuaded" (inchoative).SOME DISBELIEVED (ο δε ηπιστουν). Imperfect active of απιστεω, to d...
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...
SO THEY SET A DATE WITH PAUL. A large number came to hear what he would say. HE TRIED TO CONVINCE THEM. Paul used the Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets to preach Christ to them. SOME OF TH...
_And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging._ PAUL’S SECOND CONFERENCE WITH THE JEWS Note-- I. The interesting character of his preaching. It was-- 1. Evangelic...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 28:24 On the Jews’ pattern of resistance (compare Acts 5:33; Acts 7:51;...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 28:23. INTO his LODGING.—Probably the “hired dwelling,” μίσθωμα, of Acts 28:30, though some (Heschyius, Hackett) consider the term ξενία points to a private house—perhaps that...
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...
Acts 13:48; Acts 14:4; Acts 17:4; Acts 17:5; Acts 18:6;...