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ACTS 22:5 o` avrciereu,j
After o` avrciereu,j several Western witnesses (including 614 and syrh
with *) add ~Anani,aj (compare Acts 23:2)....
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Verse Acts 22:5. _THE HIGH PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS_, c.] He
probably referred to the _letters of authority_ which he had received
from the high priest, and the _whole estate of the elders_, παν
τ...
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AS ALSO THE HIGH PRIEST ... - See the notes on Acts 9:2.
ALL THE ESTATE OF THE ELDERS - Greek: all the presbytery; that is, the
whole body of the Sanhedrin, or Great Council of the nation.
UNTO THE B...
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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...
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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...
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THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
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"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...
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ALSO, &C. = the high priest also.
BEAR... WITNESS. Greek. _martureo_. See p. 1511. Same as Acts 15:8.
ALL THE ESTATE, &C. = the whole presbytery. Greek. _presbuterion_.
Only here, Luke 22:66; 1 Timot...
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_the high priest doth bear me witness_ The Apostle refers not to the
high priest at the time when he was speaking, but to him who had held
that office when (Acts 9:1) in his earnestness against the Ch...
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ὩΣ ΚΑῚ Ὁ�, _as also the high priest doth bear me witness_.
The Apostle refers not to the high priest at the time when he was
speaking, but to him who had held that office when (Acts 9:1) in his
earnes...
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Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
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_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...
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ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΈΩ (G3140)
удостоверять, свидетельствовать.
ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΈΡΙΟΝ (G4244) старейшины,
синедрион (Schneider; JPP, 1:379-400).
ΔΕΞΆΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_...
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THE HIGH-PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS,— That is, "I can appeal to him
for the proof of this." It will not follow from hence, that he who was
now_high-priest,_ also bore _that office_ when St. Paul pers...
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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...
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See notes on verse 3...
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AS ALSO THE HIGH PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS, AND ALL THE ESTATE OF
THE ELDERS: FROM WHOM ALSO I RECEIVED LETTERS UNTO THE BRETHREN, AND
WENT TO DAMASCUS, TO BRING THEM WHICH WERE THERE BOUND UNTO JE...
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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...
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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...
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THE ESTATE, etc.] i.e. the Sanhedrin. 6F. See on 98, and cp. Acts
26:12....
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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...
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AS ALSO THE HIGH PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS. — Annas is named as
high priest at the time of St. Paul’s conversion, acting probably
with his son-in-law, Caiaphas, as his coadjutor. (See Notes on Luke...
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ὡς καὶ ὁ ἀρχ.: not the high priest at the time he was
speaking, for that was Ananias, Acts 23:2, but rather to the high
priest Caiaphas who gave him his commission to Damascus, and who may
have been s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_As the high priest doth bear me witness. That is, as the letters
which he gave me, bear witness. (Witham)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AS ALSO THE HIGH PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS,.... Either Annas, or
Caiaphas, who was at that time high priest; and it should seem by
this, that he was still in being; or else that the apostle had
pres...
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As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of
the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and
went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jer...
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_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...
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HIGH - PRIEST; chap Acts 9:1-2.
ESTATE OF THE ELDERS; the Sanhedrin, or national council of the Jews....
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AS ALSO THE HIGH PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS, AND ALL THE ESTATE OF
THE ELDERS, FROM WHOM ALSO I RECEIVED LETTERS UNTO THE BRETHREN, AND
WENT TO DAMASCUS TO BRING THEM WHICH WERE THERE BOUND UNTO JERU...
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PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:1
Concerning Paul's early life and persecution of the Church:...
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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...
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as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the
elders, from whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to
Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Jer...
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"As also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can
testify" The Sanhedrin could testify to all this seeing it was "they
who had issued him with the extradition order which he took with him...
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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...
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THE ESTATE OF THE ELDERS; their sanhedrim or great council. LETTERS;
commission or orders. THE BRETHREN; the Jews of Damascus are called
brethren, because they descended from the patriarchs as well as...
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Acts 22:5 as G5613 also G2532 priest G749 bears G3140 me G3427 witness
G3140 (G5719) and G2532 all...
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“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...
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Acts 22:5. AS ALSO THE HIGH PRIEST DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS, AND ALL THE
ESTATE OF THE ELDERS. The ‘high priest' in question was not the
person holding that office at the present juncture, but the one who...
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DOTH BEAR ME WITNESS
(μαρτυρε μο). Present active indicative as if still living.
Caiaphas was no longer high priest now, for Ananias is at this time
(Acts 23:2), though he may be still alive.ALL TH...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 26:10; Acts 26:12; Acts 4:5; Acts 5:21; Acts 9:1;...
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Estate of the elders [π ρ ε σ β υ τ ε ρ ι ο ν]. The
eldership or Sanhedrim.
Went. The imperfect : was journeying....
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The high priest is my witness — Is able to testify. The brethren —
Jews: so this title was not peculiar to the Christians....