Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament
Acts 19:15
“The evil spirit responding said to them: Jesus I know and I am acquainted with Paul; but who are you?
“The evil spirit responding said to them: Jesus I know and I am acquainted with Paul; but who are you?
Verse Acts 19:15. _JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL I KNOW_] In the answer of the demoniac, the verb in varied: τον Ιησουν γινωσκω, και τον Παυλον επιϚαμαι· ὑμεις δε τινες (τινος) εϚε. I acknowledge Jesus, an...
JESUS I KNOW - His power to cast out devils I know. Compare Matthew 8:29. PAUL I KNOW - Paul’s power to cast out devils, Acts . Acts 19:12. BUT WHO ARE YE? - What power have you over evil spirits? By...
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...
MIRACLES, EXORCISMS, BURNING OF BOOKS OF MAGIC. Peter's shadow cured the sick (Acts 5:15); Paul's minor articles of clothing do the same, according to the widespread belief of antiquity in the indirec...
Some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists tried naming the name of Jesus over those who had evil spirits. They said, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." There were seven sons of a certain Scaeva,...
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....
ANSWERED AND SAID. App-122. KNOW. Greek. _ginosko._ App-132. KNOW. Greek. _epistamai._ App-132. In the English there is the Figure of speech _Epistrophe.,_ App-6, but not in the Greek...
_And the evil spirit answered and said_ The most ancient texts add UNTO THEM. They had taken upon them to use the name of Jesus, but the result was far contrary to their wishes and intentions. "Evil s...
PAUL PREACHES TO THE JEWS FIRST AND AFTERWARDS TO THE GENTILES. THE WORD OF GOD PREVAILS MIGHTILY...
ΑΥ̓ΤΟΊΣ added after ΕἾΠΕΝ with אABD. _Vulg_. has ‘eis.’ 15. ἈΠΟΚΡΙΘῈΝ ΔῈ ΤῸ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ΤῸ ΠΟΝΗΡῸΝ ΕἾΠΕΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΙ͂Σ, _and the evil spirit answered and said to them_. They had taken upon them to use the nam...
_BOOKS ABOUT WITCHCRAFT WERE BURNED ACTS 19:11-20:_ God blessed Paul with the power to work great miracles. Many sick people were healed and evil sprits were cast out. Some vagabond Jews took it upon...
ΆΠΟΚΡΙΘΈΝ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать. Семитское использование плеонастического _part._ ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ, _см._ Acts 19:13. ΈΠΊΣΤΑΜΑΙ (G1987) _praes. ind. pa...
DISCOURSE: 1794 THE POWER OF CHRIST AND HIS GOSPEL Acts 19:15. _And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?_ GREAT effects are wrought by the Gospel, whereve...
AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED— Not to insist on the demonstration arising from thepresent history, that this demoniac was not merely a lunatic, we may observe that the evil spirit, under whose operatio...
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....
See notes on verse 13...
And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED AND SAID, JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL I KNOW, [ ginooskoo (G1097) ... epistamai (G1987)...
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...
19:15 with; (e-17) As Mark 14:68 , 'understand.'...
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...
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...
JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL I KNOW... — Better, _Jesus I acknowledge._ The two verbs are different in the Greek, the one implying recognition of authority, the latter, as colloquially used, though original...
γινώσκω … ἐπίσταμαι : “I know,” R.V. for both verbs, but for the former “I recognise,” margin, as a distinction is drawn between Paul and Jesus in the formula of adjuration, it is natural to expect a...
THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME Acts 19:13 Where God's spirit is mightily at work, Satan is not far away. Here the enemy's emissaries were mean enough to use the name of Jesus to get themselves a few more s...
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...
Magnifying Jesus' Name God caused some great miracles to be worked through Paul. Even pieces of cloth, like a handkerchief or apron, which had touched his body could be placed on the body of the sick...
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,...
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...
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...
AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED AND SAID,.... The Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, add, "to them"; to the seven sons of Sceva: JESUS I KNOW; to be the Son of God and M...
And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? Ver. 15. _Jesus I know, and Paul_] Jesus had destroyed his works, and Paul had felt his fingers, 2 Corinthians 12...
_Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists_ Dr. Whitby, and several other critics, have produced many passages from Irenæus, Origen, Epiphanius, and Josephus, to prove that several of the Jews, abo...
JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL; their power to expel us we acknowledge, but not yours....
The encounter with the exorcists:...
AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED AND SAID, JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL I KNOW; BUT WHO ARE YEP...
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...
AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED AND SAID, " JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL I KNOW; BUT WHO ARE YOU? " 1. The evil spirits respond. They recognize the power of Jesus and the name of Jesus. They also know of Paul...
"And the evil spirit answered and said unto them, Jesus. know, and Paul. know, but who are ye?"Jesus. know" The demon knew who Jesus was (James 2:19). "Paul. know" "Paul is also. very familiar acquain...
13-20 It was common, especially among the Jews, for persons to profess or to try to cast out evil spirits. If we resist the devil by faith in Christ, he will flee from us; but if we think to resist h...
I acknowledge that Jesus hath power to command me to go hence; and I know that Paul, as his minister, hath authority over me; but what pretensions have ye to command me now? Though the devil is a liar...
Acts 19:15 And G1161 evil G4190 spirit G4151 answered G611 (G5679) said G2036 (G5627) Jesus G2424 know...
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...
‘And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this, and the evil spirit answered and said to them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?” ' Included among these ex...
Acts 19:15. AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED AND SAID, JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL I KNOW; BUT WHO ARE YE? The possessed man, like the Gadarene demoniac of the Gospel, identifying himself with the evil spirits...
JESUS I KNOW (τον Ιησουν γινωσκω). "The (whom you mention) Jesus I recognize (γινωσκω)" and "the (whom you mentioned) Paul I am acquainted with (τον Παυλον επισταμα)." Clear distinction between γιν...
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...
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...
SOME JEWS. These were "professional exorcists" who made their living by driving out evil spirits. _Justin Martyr_ says that most of these Jewish exorcists had adopted the same superstitions and magic-...
_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...
_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...
_Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists._ SEVEN SONS OF SCEVA A great spiritual revolution had taken place in Ephesus. At first Paul found the twelve disciples without Christian knowledge beyon...
_And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?_ A DEVIL’S ESTIMATE OF CHARACTER I. Christ’s character is studied by evil spirits. “Jesus I know.” 1. Their at...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 19:15 Using the name of JESUS was not enough to cast out evil spirits. True faith in Jesus was also necessary. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 19:13. VAGABOND.—_I.e._, wandering about, or strolling JEWS, EXORCISTS, by profession (compare Matthew 12:8). “They appear to have regarded Paul as one of their own class, but...
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...
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...
1 Kings 22:21; Acts 16:17; Acts 16:18; Genesis 3:1; Luke 4:33;...
I know - I know [γ ι ν ω σ κ ω - ε π ι σ τ α μ α ι]. There is a purpose in using two different words to denote the demon's recognition of the Divine Master and of the human agent, though it is not eas...