Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 8:4
Therefore they that were dispersed went every where — These very words are reassumed, after as it were a long parenthesis, Acts 11:19 and the thread of the story continued.
Therefore they that were dispersed went every where — These very words are reassumed, after as it were a long parenthesis, Acts 11:19 and the thread of the story continued.
ACTS 8:4 to.n lo,gon After to.n lo,gon several Western witnesses (E itp2 syrp Augustine) add tou/ qeou/; other Western witnesses (itpl vgmss) add _circa ciuitates et castella iudee,_ which A. C. Clar...
Verse Acts 8:4. _THEY THAT WERE SCATTERED - WENT EVERY WHERE PREACHING_] Thus the very means devised by Satan to destroy the Church became the very instruments of its diffusion and establishment. What...
WENT EVERYWHERE - That is, they traveled through the various regions where they were scattered. In all places to which they came, they preached the Word. PREACHING THE WORD - Greek: “evangelizing,” or...
PART II The Witness to Samaria. Saul's Conversion and Peter's Witness in Caesarea. Chapter s 8-12 CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The first great persecution (Acts 8:1)._ 2. The preaching of the scattered believ...
ACTS 8:1_ B_ - ACTS 8:4. PERSECUTION AND DISPERSION. There has been no great persecution of the believers as yet. A night's imprisonment and beating was all they had to suffer. Now we are told that on...
THE FIRST OF THE MARTYRS (Acts 7:54-60 ; Acts 8:1) 8:1 As they listened to this their very hearts were torn with vexation and they gnashed their teeth at him. But he was full of the Holy Spirit and h...
At that time a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem. They were all scattered abroad throughout the districts of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. Pious men carried Stephe...
THEREFORE, &C.. They therefore indeed. WENT EVERY WHERE. Lit passed through. Greek. _dierchomai._ Occ forty-three times, thirty-one times in Luke and Acts. PREACHING. Greek. _euangelizo._ App-121....
_Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where_[went about] _preaching the word_ In these words we have the general effect of the persecution. One particular history of such preaching is...
ΔΙΗ͂ΛΘΟΝ, _went about_. This was the effect on the whole body. The history turns at once to a single instance of the dispersion, and describes its results....
Acts 8:1-4. PERSECUTION AFTER THE DEATH OF STEPHEN...
_THE THIRD JEWISH PERSECUTION ACTS 8:1-4:_ Saul consented to Stephen's death. He led a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem. The persecution that followed the death of Stephen caused the...
ΔΙΑΣΠΑΡΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass._part., _см._ Acts 8:1. Part, в роли _subst._ ΔΙΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1330) проходить через, ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΙΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (сопутств.) от_ ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛ...
WENT EVERY WHERE PREACHING THE WORD— As the apostles were natives of Judea, and had no notion of the conversion of the Gentiles, but would have confined theirministry within the narrow bounds of their...
THE CHURCH IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA Acts 8:1, Acts 12:25 THE DISPERSION THE WORK OF PHILIP THE WORK OF PETER AND JOHN 8:1-40. A. THE DISPERSION....
See notes on verse 1...
Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. THEREFORE THEY THAT WERE SCATTERED ABROAD WENT EVERY WHERE, [ dieelthon (G1330)] - 'went up and down' or 'in all dire...
4 We now enter the second cycle of the kingdom testimony. Jerusalem and Judea have not heeded its proclamation. It is now offered to Samaria, then it will go to the limits of the earth, and even to th...
PHILIP IN SAMARIA. SIMON MAGUS The graphic details of the ministry of Philip which follow, were doubtless obtained from Philip himself. St. Luke stayed at his house at Cæsarea, and made the acquaintan...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 SAUL *PERSECUTES THE CHRISTIANS, 8:1-4 V1 Saul approved of Stephen’s murder. That same day, the Christians in *Jerusalem suffered very much....
THEY THAT WERE SCATTERED ABROAD. — These. As has been said above, would in all probability be Stephen’s Hellenistic fellow-workers and followers. As in later ages, the axiom that “the blood of martyrs...
οἱ μὲν οὖν : marking a general statement, δὲ in following verse, introducing a particular instance (so Rendall, Appendix on μὲν οὖν, _Acts_, p. 162, and see also p. 64). διῆλθον : the word is constant...
FRUITS OF THE SCATTERED SEED Acts 8:1-13 Evidently Stephen was beloved outside the precincts of the Church, for it would seem that the devout men who lamented his early death and carried his poor bod...
The popular outburst against Christianity evidenced in the martyrdom of Stephen was general. Members of the Church at Jerusalem were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. How dark the day seemed to...
The Church Persecuted by Saul Luke told Theophilus that Saul, by holding the coats of those who stoned Stephen, had given consent to his death. Immediately following this violent act, an intense perio...
_“Therefore indeed being dispersed abroad, they went everywhere preaching the word.”_ Oh, how the devil overshot himself in the Sauline persecutions. It was high time that Jerusalem nest was broken up...
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
4._And they were scattered abroad_. Luke declareth in this place also, that it came to pass by the wonderful providence of God, that the scattering abroad of the faithful should bring many unto the un...
Saul was present at Stephen's death, and consenting to it. [14] This is the end of the first phase of the assembly of God its history in immediate connection with Jerusalem and the Jews, as the centre...
THEREFORE THEY THAT WERE SCATTERED ABROAD,.... By reason of the persecution in Jerusalem: the seventy disciples, and other ministers of the word; or the hundred and twenty, excepting the apostles, WE...
Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. Ver. 4. _See Trapp on "_ Act 8:1 _"_ _Trucidabantur et multiplicabantur, _ saith Austin. They were never the fewer for b...
The efforts of wicked men to stop the progress of the gospel are often overruled for its advancement; and yet their wickedness is as great, and without repentance their punishment will be as dreadful,...
THEREFORE THEY THAT WERE SCATTERED ABROAD WENT EVERYWHERE, PREACHING THE WORD....
The missionary work of the disciples and of Philip:...
As a wild beast tasting blood, the Jews were the more inflamed by the martyrdom of Stephen to greatly persecute the Church of God at Jerusalem. For this reason believers were scattered through Judea a...
THEREFORE THOSE WHO WERE SCATTERED WENT EVERYWHERE PREACHING THE WORD. 1. Scatter - to sow about, to scatter, to disperse 2. Went everywhere - Not that they went to every place on earth. But every...
They therefore that were scattered abroad, went about preaching the word. 'WENT ABOUT PREACHING THE WORD'-And future passages reveal that such preaching resulted in great success (Acts 11:19 ff). Po...
1-4 Though persecution must not drive us from our work, yet it may send us to work elsewhere. Wherever the established believer is driven, he carries the knowledge of the gospel, and makes known the p...
Now the partition wall was about to be broken down, and the Gentiles to be taken into the pale of the church, God provides this strange means towards it. The disciples are forced to flee for their liv...
Acts 8:4 Therefore G3767 G3303 scattered G1289 (G5651) everywhere G1330 (G5627) preaching G2097 (G5734) word...
‘They therefore who were scattered abroad, went about preaching the word.' The violence and inexorability of the persecution resulted in the scattering abroad of the church. But what seemed to be a se...
THE CONTINUING MINISTRY OF PETER (9:32-11:18). In preparing for the Gentile ministry of Paul, a preparation which has included what we have just considered concerning his conversion and ministry to Je...
Acts 8:4. THEREFORE THEY THAT WERE SCATTERED ABROAD WENT EVERYWHERE PREACHING THE WORD. The immediate result of this bitter persecution was the fulfilment of the first part of the Saviour's words: ‘Ye...
THEY THEREFORE (ο μεν ουν). Demonstrative ο as often (Acts 1:6, etc.) though it will make sense as the article with the participle διασπαρεντες. The general statement is made here by μεν and a parti...
Acts 8:4. _Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord ga...
Stephen had been stoned to death; but with his latest breath he prayed for his murderers. Then this chapter begins: Acts 8:1. _And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a gre...
CONTENTS: Saul persecuting Christians. The first missionaries. The case of Simon, the sorcerer. Philip and the Ethiopian. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Saul, Stephen, Philip, Simon, apostles,...
Acts 8:1. _At that time there was a great persecution against the church._ With regard to this very tremendous storm which suddenly burst on the infant church, Cardinal Baronius, in his Ecclesiastical...
PREACHING THE MESSAGE. The group was scattered, but the CHURCH of Christ was not destroyed! They had been _schooled_ by the apostles, and everywhere one of these believers found himself, a new communi...
_And Saul was consenting to his death._ THREE GREAT FIGURES IN THE CHURCH I. The persecuting Saul. In this part of the narrative the name of Saul occurs three times (Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Acts 8:3). H...
_Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the Word._ THE AGGRESSIVE POWER OF CHRISTIANITY That it is pre-eminently by aggressive movements that the Church is to prosper. B...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 8:1. CONSENTING.—Compare Acts 22:20; Luke 11:48; Romans 1:32. Luke had probably often heard this remark from Paul. At that time
EXPOSITION ACTS 8:1 _There arose on that day _for _at that time there was, _A.V._; in _for _at, _A.V. SAUL WAS CONSENTING TO HIS DEATH. St. Paul's repeated reference to this sad episode in his life i...
We are introduced now to one of the chief persecutors. A zealous young Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, whose name is Saul. And he was standing by, consenting to the death of Stephen, holding the coa...
1 Thessalonians 2:2; Acts 11:19; Acts 14:2; Matthew 10:23...
THE GREAT PERSECUTION Acts 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We approach today the scenes that immediately followed Stephen's death. Satan, encouraged by Stephen's martyrdom, thinks to press on with fire and...
The severe persecution at Jerusalem, dispersed the whole body of the church, and scattered both members and teachers thereof, except the apostles. Some went to Damascus, some to Samaria, some to Phoen...