At Cesarea - See the notes on Acts 8:40.
And gone up - From the ship.
And saluted the church - The church at Jerusalem. This was Paul’s main design; and though it is not distinctly specified, yet the whole narrative implies that he went there before returning to Antioch. The word saluted implies that he expressed for them his tender affection and regard.
To Antioch - In Syria. See the notes on Acts 11:19.
Verse Acts 18:22. _LANDED AT CAESAREA_] This must have been Caesarea in Palestine. _GONE UP_] To _Jerusalem_, though the name is not mentioned: but this is a common form of speech in the evangelists...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. In Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla. His Testimony and Separation from the Jews (Acts 18:1)._ 2. Encouragement from the Lord in a vision (Acts 18:9). 3. Paul and Gallio (Acts 18:12...
JOURNEY TO SYRIA. No special object, is stated; the facts are placed before us abruptly, and some are hard to understand. An apostle is by his office a traveller who does not give himself to any one c...
PREACHING IN CORINTH (Acts 18:1-11) Its very position made Corinth (G2882) a key city of Greece. Greece is almost cut in two by the sea. On one side is the Saronic Gulf with its port of Cenchrea and...
After Paul had remained there many days longer he took leave of the brethren and sailed away to Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila went with him. At Cenchrea he had his head shorn for he had a vow. They...
WHEN HE HAD LANDED. having come down. AT. to. Greek. _eis._ App-104. GONE UP, i.e. to Jerusalem. Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6. CHURCH. App-186....
ΕἸΣ ΚΑΙΣΆΡΕΙΑΝ, _to Cæsarea_, This was the home of Philip the Evangelist, and we may suppose that St Paul would make the success of his distant mission known to his fellow-labourer. He made the house...
PAUL LEAVES CORINTH TO GO INTO SYRIA, HALTING A SHORT TIME AT CENCHREÆ, AND SOMEWHAT LONGER AT EPHESUS. HE LANDS AT CÆSAREA, GOES UP TO JERUSALEM, AND FROM THENCE TO ANTIOCH, AND AFTER A TIME DEPARTS...
_PAUL WATERED WHAT HE HAD PLANTED ACTS 18:18-23:_ At Cenchrea Paul shaved his head because of a vow he had made. One would be hard pressed to prove that this vow was one peculiar to the Law, which it...
ΚΑΤΕΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΚΑΤΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2718) опускаться, нисходить. ΚΑΙΣΑΡΕΊΑ (G2542) Кесария на море. Это был большой порт, построенный Иродом Великим в качестве резиденции правителя Иуд...
AND HE CAME TO EPHESUS,— For the short time that the apostle now continued at Ephesus, which seems to have been but one sabbath-day, he went into the synagogue, and discoursed with the Jews, and with...
AT CAESAREA. Acts 18:22 a. Acts 18:22 a And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and saluted the church, ACTS 18:22 A Landing at the seaport he went up to the church in Caesarea and saluted the...
See notes on verse 19...
And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch. AND WHEN HE HAD LANDED AT CESAREA (LEAVING THE VESSEL THERE), AND GONE UP (THAT IS, TO JERUSALEM),...
3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...
18:22 up (e-8) i.e. to Jerusalem....
AND GONE UP] viz. to Jerusalem. We may suppose that St. Paul spent some time at Jerusalem, before going to Antioch....
VISIT TO JERUSALEM. Paul probably sailed in a ship specially chartered to convey Jews to Palestine to keep the Passover....
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONCLUDED) 1-18. St. Paul at Corinth. Corinth was the capital of the Roman province of Achaia. The ancient town had been entirely destroyed in 146 b.c. by the Roman general...
ST PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, 49, 50 A.D. (ACTS 15:36 TO ACTS 18:22) Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his missionary labo...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 18 PAUL GOES TO CORINTH, 18:1-4 V1 After this, Paul left Athens and he went to Corinth. V2 In Corinth, he met a *Jew called Aquila. Aquila had...
AND WHEN HE HAD LANDED AT CÆSAREA. — It is obvious that a great deal is covered by the short record of this verse. In the absence of any _data_ in the Acts for settling the question, we may possibly r...
κατελθὼν εἰς κ., _i.e._, Cæsarea Stratonis, _i.e._, came down from the high sea to the coast, the shore, _cf._ Acts 27:5 (Acts 21:3), so in Homer, and also of coming down from the high land to the coa...
NEW HELPERS IN THE GOSPEL Acts 18:18 In unimportant matters Paul was still amenable to Hebrew customs and rites, Acts 18:18. Probably he desired to conciliate his Judaizing opponents so far as he cou...
Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...
Paul's Return to Antioch Paul spent a short time preaching in the synagogue in Ephesus. He promised to return if it was God's will, left Priscilla and Aquila and sailed on to Caesarea. The apostle ma...
He went up. To Jerusalem is most probably understood, that being the chief object of St. Paul's journey. It seems rather extraordinary that St. Luke should have omitted the express mention of the city...
Going down to Caesarea, and up to Jerusalem,...
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary...
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...
− 22._When he came down to Caesarea. _Though Luke saith in a word that Paul saluted the Church at Jerusalem, yet is it certain that he was drawn thither with some great necessity. And yet we may gathe...
At Thessalonica Paul twice received succour from Philippi; at Corinth, where money and commerce abounded, he does not take it, but quietly works with two of his countrymen of the same trade as himself...
AND WHEN HE HAD LANDED AT CAESAREA,.... This was Caesarea Stratonis, formerly called Strato's tower: it would have been nearest for the apostle to have landed at Joppa, in order to go to Jerusalem, bu...
And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch. Ver. 22. _And gone up_] _sc._ To Jerusalem, which stood on high in respect of Coelesyria and the seac...
_And he came to Ephesus_ The ship in which they sailed probably having occasion to touch there. _And he entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews_ Upon whom his discourse made such an imp...
CESAREA; a seaport on the western coast of Palestine. GONE UP; to Jerusalem. ANTIOCH; in Syria, the place from which he went out on his late tour....
And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch. After the unsuccessful uprising of the Jews, which must have occurred in the fall of 51 A. D., Paul rem...
THE RETURN TRIP TO ANTIOCH AND THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD JOURNEY. From Corinth to Antioch:...
Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wif...
AND WHEN HE HAD LANDED AT CAESAREA, AND GONE UP AND GREETED THE CHURCH, HE WENT DOWN TO ANTIOCH. 1. Paul landed at Caesarea, on the coast of Israel. 2. He went up - This phrase indicates that he wen...
18-23 While Paul found he laboured not in vain, he continued labouring. Our times are in God's hand; we purpose, but he disposes; therefore we must make all promises with submission to the will of Go...
CAESAREA; not that Caesarea that was in Syria, but that which was in Palestine, called Caesarea Stratonis; and which was the safest way to Jerusalem; for the way by Joppa, though shorter, was accounte...
Acts 18:22 And G2532 landed G2718 (G5631) at G1519 Caesarea G2542 up G305 (G5631) and G2532 greeted...
‘And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and saluted the church, and went down to Antioch.' Landing at Caesarea ‘he _went up_ and saluted the church'. This almost certainly indicates that he...
PAUL RETURNS TO ANTIOCH VIA EPHESUS AND JERUSALEM (18:18-22). The ministry at Corinth continued for some time after which Paul decided that it was time to return back to the church at Syrian Antioch...
Acts 18:22. AND WHEN HE HAD LANDED AT CAESAREA. This Roman capital of Judaea was the usual and most convenient port for travellers journeying to Jerusalem. AND GONE UP, AND SALUTED THE CHURCH. ‘Gone...
HE WENT UP AND SALUTED THE CHURCH (αναβας κα ασπασαμενος την εκκλησιαν). The language could refer to the church in Caesarea where Paul had just landed, except for several things. The going up (αναβα...
Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1. _After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth:_ Another most i...
CONTENTS: Paul at Corinth. The careless Gallio. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Apollos at Ephesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Paul, Aquila, Priscilla, Claudius, Silas, Timothy, Justus, Crispus, Gallio, Sosthenes,...
Acts 18:2. _Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome._ Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ninth...
PAUL STAYED ON IN CORINTH. This may be included in the year and a half (Acts 18:11). The point is that he was not forced to leave the area by what the Jews were doing. THEN LEFT THEM AND SAILED OFF. H...
_And Paul after this tarried there a good while._ PREPARING FOR LABOUR 1. Paul has conquered his position in Corinth. He seemed to have acquired a right to remain there. And after tarrying “a good wh...
_And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches._ PAUL AS A MODEL FOR ALL GOSPEL MINISTERS He recognises the importance of-- I. Establishing new converts in the faith. In this visit...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:22 Leaving from the main Palestinian port of CAESAREA in the spring of A.D. 51, Paul WENT UP AND GREETED THE CHURCH (in Jerusalem). Then Paul WENT DOWN (fro
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:18. HAVING SHORN HIS HEAD AT CENCHREA, FOR HE HAD A VOW.—The uncertainties connected with this passage are three: 1. Whether Aquila (Kuinoel, Meyer, Wendt, Zöckler) or Paul...
EXPOSITION ACTS 18:1 _He _for _Paul, _A.V. and T.R. AFTER THESE THINGS, etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Beroeans, who...
Let's turn now to the eighteenth chapter of Acts as we continue our study through the Bible. At the end of the study last week, the end of chapter seventeen, we found Paul speaking to the Epicurean an...
Acts 10:1; Acts 10:24; Acts 11:11; Acts 11:19; Acts 13:1;...
And landing at Cesarea, he went up — Immediately to Jerusalem; and saluted the Church — Eminently so called, being the mother Church of Christian believers: and having kept the feast there, he went do...