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Acts 19:10

This went on for two years. He used this lecture hall for two years. His total time in Ephesus was three years (Acts 20:31). So that all the people. Paul's preaching had strong influence in the province of Asia. We know this from: (1) the effect on those who practiced magic; (2) from what Demetrius says (Acts 19:24-27); (3) about forty years later, Pliny wrote in a letter to Trajan that Christianity had caused the temples of the gods to be deserted.

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God was performing unusual miracles. Miracles are always God's doing. To show Paul spoke by his authority, God let his power go with things carried from Paul to the sick. The people could see that the charms and amulets which they had trusted, did not have the power which handkerchiefs and aprons from Paul had.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Acts 19:10. _BY THE SPACE OF TWO YEARS_] The schoolhouse of Tyrannus was his regular chapel; and it is likely that in it he taught _Christianity_, as Tyrannus taught _languages_ or _sciences_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THIS CONTINUED - This public instruction. BY THE SPACE ... - For two whole years. SO THAT ALL - That is, the great mass of the people. WHICH DWELT IN ASIA - In that province of Asia Minor of which E...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The second visit of Paul to Ephesus. The twelve disciples of John (Acts 19:1)._ 2. The Apostle's continued labors. The separation of the disciples. The Province Asia evangelized (Act...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PAUL AT EPHESUS. After three months in the synagogue (Acts 18:19; Acts 18:26) Paul finds it necessary, as in other places, to leave it, and takes his followers to the lecture room of Tyrannus, where h...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    IN EPHESUS (Acts 19:1-7) Acts 19:1-41 is mainly concerned with Paul's work in Ephesus. He stayed longer there than anywhere else, almost three years. (i) Ephesus (G2181) was the market of Asia Minor....

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    He came into the synagogue and for three months he spoke with boldness, debating and persuading people about the things connected with the kingdom of God. When some made themselves difficult and would...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BY THE SPACE OF. for. Greek. _epi._ App-104. THEY WHICH DWELT. the dwellers. Greek. _katoikeo._ See note on Acts 2:5. WORD. Greek. _logos._ App-121. JESUS. The texts omit. GREEKS. Greek. _Hellen._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And this continued by the space of two years_ The _Rev. Ver._changes "by" into "for." As Englishmen still take a house at so much "_by_the week, or the year," the older phrase might well be retained,...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Ἰησοῦ omitted after ΚΥΡΊΟΥ with אABDE. Not represented in Vulg. 10. ἘΠῚ ἜΤΗ ΔΎΟ, _by the space of two years_. Speaking to the Ephesian elders at Miletus the Apostle says he ceased not to admonish the...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    PAUL PREACHES TO THE JEWS FIRST AND AFTERWARDS TO THE GENTILES. THE WORD OF GOD PREVAILS MIGHTILY...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _TWELVE MEN WERE BAPTIZED AT EPHESUS ACTS 19:1-10:_ Paul went to Ephesus after Apollos had gone to Corinth. At Ephesus he met some disciples that had been baptized with John's baptism. The way that Pa...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 19:1. ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟΎΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΈΩ (G2730) жить, проживать. Part, в роли _subst._ ΆΚΟΎΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf., см._ Acts 19:2. _Inf._ с ΏΣΤΕ (G5...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS Special Study PAUL'S POWER TO GIVE CHARISMATIC POWER (Acts 19:1-41) A. There is much ambiguous, scripturally-imprecise and confusing exegesis of Acts 19:1-7 being done today. 1....

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    See notes on verse 8...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. AND THIS CONTINUED BY THE SPACE OF TWO YEARS - in addition...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    26 Apollos' ignorance of the ministry of the Lord and His twelve apostles made it easy for him to receive the truth proclaimed through Paul, so that he became a great help to the saints in Corinth as...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EPHESUS 1-41. Paul at Ephesus. Opposition of the manufacturers of idols. St. Paul, leaving Antioch in S. Galatia (see Acts 18:23), approached Ephesus not by the usual level route leading through Colos...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    To this period is to be referred the foundation of the Seven Churches of Asia, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Tyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (Revelation 1:11), and of Colossæ, Hierapolis, Troas....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 PAUL IN EPHESUS, 19:1-10 V1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was travelling. He travelled through the *province on the higher road. He arr...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SO THAT ALL THEY WHICH DWELT IN ASIA HEARD THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS. — Here also there is a gap which can only be partially filled up by inference or conjecture. Ephesus, proba...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἐπὶ ἔτη δύο : exclusive of the quarter of a year in Acts 19:8 and in Acts 20:31 the Apostle speaks of three years' residence in Ephesus, “in the usual ancient style of reckoning an intermediate period...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING IN EPHESUS Acts 19:1 Paul had planted good seed at Corinth, and Apollos, in turn, had watered it, 1 Corinthians 3:6. Large numbers became his devoted followers. This, however,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The result of the work of Apollos was manifest when Paul reached Ephesus. There he found a company of sincere disciples to Jesus as He had been revealed by John. To them Paul declared the truth in its...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Teaching in the School of Tyrannus Paul next entered into the synagogue to boldly teach the Jews about the gospel. It should be remembered that the apostle had already taught in the synagogue in Ephes...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    All Asia, both Jews and Greeks, during these memorable two years, because they enjoyed ample opportunity to hear the Word, are held responsible as if they did hear it, like the millions of this wicked...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. (9) But when divers were hardened, and believed not,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    − 10._All which dwelt. _Luke doth not mean that the men of Asia came thither to hear Paul; but that the smell [savor] of his preaching went throughout all Asia, and that the seed was sown far and wide...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    From Verse 24 of Chapter 18 to Verse 7 of Chapter 19 we have a kind of summary of the progress made by the doctrine of Christ, and of the power that accompanied it. Apollos knew only of the teaching o...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THIS CONTINUED BY THE SPACE OF TWO YEARS,.... Reckoning from the end of the three months, which had been spent in teaching in the synagogue: SO THAT ALL THEY WHICH DWELT IN ASIA; in the lesser As...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. Ver. 10. _So that all they that dwelt in Asia_] Which now (a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And he went into the synagogue_ As he used to do in other places; _and spake boldly_ Greek, επαρρησιαζετο, _he spake with freedom and confidence; for the space of three months, disputing_ Greek, διαλ...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    ASIA; Ionia, or proconsular Asia, of which Ephesus was the capital....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND THIS CONTINUED BY THE SPACE OF TWO YEARS, SO THAT ALL THEY WHICH DWELT IN ASIA HEARD THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The success of the Gospel:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Paul returned to Ephesus, as he had promised. Of course there was an assembly there already, as chapter 18:27 intimates; but he found certain disciples who, at his questioning, tell him they had not e...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    AND THIS CONTINUED FOR TWO YEARS, SO THAT ALL WHO DWELT IN ASIA HEARD THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS. 1. Paul continued teaching at the school for two years. He was a year and a hal...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks"And this" This public instruction that took place on. daily basis....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-12 When arguments and persuasions only harden men in unbelief and blasphemy, we must separate ourselves and others from such unholy company. God was pleased to confirm the teaching of these holy men...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ALL THEY; many of all sorts. ASIA; Asia the Lesser, or Asia strictly so called, lying about Ephesus: the heathens came thither to worship their Diana; the Jews came thither about their affairs, either...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 19:10 And G1161 this G5124 continued G1096 (G5633) for G1909 two G1417 years G2094 so G5620 all...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And this continued for the space of two years, so that all those who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.' The move was successful and, far from hindering the church, resul...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PAUL'S CONTINUING MINISTRY IN EPHESUS (19:8-20). Meanwhile we are reminded that Paul's' ministry continues in Ephesus in the proclamation of the Kingly Rule of God (compare Acts 1:3; Acts 8:12; Acts 1...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Acts 19:10. AND THIS CONTINUED BY THE SPACE OF TWO YEARS. We must reckon this period from the time when Paul separated the disciples from the synagogue. The ‘two years' probably terminated before the...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    FOR TWO YEARS (επ ετη δυο). Note επ with accusative for extent of time as in verse Acts 19:8, επ μηνας τρεις and often. But in Acts 20:31 Paul said to the Ephesian elders at Miletus that he laboured...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Paul at Ephesus. Disciples of John the Baptist become Christians. Paul in the synagogue and in the school of Tyrannus. Paul's miracles. Uproar of the silversmiths. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Acts 19:1. _Paul came to Ephesus,_ a city of Ionia, built by the Amezones. Its temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the world; but Pompey plundered it of all its riches. This city is now in...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And he welt into the synagogue._ PAUL’S MINISTRY AT EPHESUS I. Wonderful preaching. 1. Manner of the preaching. (1) It was bold (Act 4:31; 2 Corinthians 7:4; Philippians 1:14). (2) It was logical...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul … came to Ephesus._ --Ephesus was the third capital and starting point of Christianity At Jerusalem Christianity was born in the cradle of Judaism; Antioch had been...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:10 Paul ministered in Ephesus for about three years (c. A.D. 52–55; see 20:31). That he reached ALL THE RESIDENTS OF ASIA reflects his missionary strategy. He started in the major...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:9. BELIEVED NOT might also be rendered _mere disobedient_. THE WAY.—See on Acts 9:2. TYRANNUS.—Otherwise unknown. Hardly the possessor of a private synagogue (Meyer); may ha...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ACTS 19:1 _Country _for _coasts, _A.V.; _found _for _finding, _A.V. and T.R. THE UPPER COUNTRY (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through which St. Paul...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth [watering what Paul had planted], Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus; and there he found certain disciples [that no dou...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:22; 1 Peter 1:1; 2 Timothy 1:15; Acts 16:6; Acts 18:1

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Asia. See on ch. Acts 2:9....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    All who desired it among the inhabitants of the proconsular Asia, now heard the word: St. Paul had been forbidden to preach it in Asia before, Acts 16:6. But now the time was come....

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