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Acts 17:14,15

Acts 17:14-15

Codex Bezae, with occasional support from other Western witnesses, recasts these two verses as follows: to.n me.n ou=n Pau/lon oi` avdelfoi. evxape,steilan avpelqei/n evpi. th.n qa,lassan\ u`pe,meinen de. o` Sila/j kai. o` Timo,qeoj evkei/) oi` de. katasta,nontej to.n Pau/lon h;gagon e[wj VAqhnw/n( parh/lqen de. th.n Qessali,an( evkwlu,qh ga.r eivj auvtou.j khru,xai to.n lo,gon( labo,ntej de. evntolh.n para. Pau,lou pro.j to.n Sila/n kai. Timo,qeon o[pwj evn ta,cei e;lqwsin pro.j auvto.n evxh,|esan (“The brethren therefore sent Paul off to go to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there. (15) And those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and he passed by Thessaly, for he was prevented from proclaiming the word to them; and having received a command from Paul for Silas and Timothy to come to him quickly, they departed”). The purpose of the addition in ver. Acts 17:15 is to explain why nothing happened on Paul’s journey through Thessaly.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Acts 17:14. _TO GO AS IT WERE TO THE SEA_] This passage is generally understood to mean that the disciples took Paul towards the sea, _as if he had intended to embark, and return to Troas_, but...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE BRETHREN - Those who were Christians. SENT AWAY PAUL - In order to secure his safety. A similar thing had been done in Thessalonica, Acts 17:10. The tumult was great; and there was no doubt, such...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 17 _ 1. The Gospel in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1)._ 2. The Gospel in Beroea (Acts 17:10). 3. Paul in Athens (Acts 17:15). Three cities in which the Gospel is next preached are before us in thi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THROUGH BERŒ A TO ATHENS. Berœ a was a populous place but off the main route. Paul and Silas at once go to the synagogue; by this time we should think they could scarcely look to the synagogue with ho...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away to Beroea by night. When they arrived there they came into the synagogue of the Jews. These were men of finer character than those in Thessalonica and...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SENT AWAY. Greek. _exapostello._ App-174. AS IT WERE. Greek. _hos_, but the texts read _heos,_ as far as. ABODE. Greek. _hupomeno._ Gen. translates "endure"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _immediately_ As from Thessalonica so from Berœa, the departure is made in all haste, so much has the charge of conspiring against Cæsar's power disturbed the whole people. _to go as it were to the se...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΕΥ̓ΘΈΩΣ ΔΈ, _and immediately_. As from Thessalonica, so from Berœa, the departure is made with all haste. The charge of conspiring against Cæsar, which was probably put forward everywhere, had a very...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    PAUL AND SILAS SENT AWAY TO BERŒA. NOBLE CHARACTER OF THE BERŒANS. THE JEWS FROM THESSALONICA FOLLOW AFTER PAUL, AND BY REASON OF THEIR ENMITY HE IS CONDUCTED TO ATHENS...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE NOBLE CONDUCT OF THE BEREANS ACTS 17:10-15:_ Out of love for their spiritual fathers and concern for their safety the brethren sent Paul and Silas to Berea. They were sent out at night to preserv...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΞΑΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΑΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G1821) высылать, ΠΟΡΕΎΕΣΘΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G4198) идти, путешествовать. Эпэкз. _inf._ объясняет ΈΞΑΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΑΝ. ΎΠΈΜΕΙΝΑΝ _aor. in...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TO GO AS IT WERE TO THE SEA— Grotius supposes that St. Paul was brought down to the sea-coast, as one about to sail, and that the rumour thereof was spread; but that in reality he hastened by land to...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IN ATHENS. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:34. a. The brethren from Berea go with Paul as far as Athens and take back a command for the coming of Silas and Timothy. Acts 17:14 b -...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    AT BEREA. Acts 17:10 b - Acts 17:14 a. Acts 17:10 b unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogues of the Jews. Acts 17:11

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    See notes on verse 13...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. AND THEN IMMEDIATELY THE BRETHREN - the converts gathered at Berea. SENT A...

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

    1 Luke seems to have remained behind at Philippi, for the narrative now proceeds in the third person. Timothy also tarried, for no one was more genuinely solicitous of the welfare of the infant eccles...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    17:14 as (h-11) The use of 'as' here is not of semblance of anything, but of purpose or intention....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED) 1-15. Thessalonica and Berœa. 1. Amphipolis] 32 m. W. of Philippi. APOLLONIA] 30 m. W. of Amphipolis. THESSALONICA] now Salonika, was the capital of the provin...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AS IT WERE TO THE SEA] i.e. they pretended to go to the sea (to elude pursuit), and then turned off and went by land to Athens. Others translate simply 'to the sea,' and suppose that St. Paul embarked...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 17 PAUL AND SILAS GO TO THESSALONICA, 17:1-4 V1 Paul and Silas travelled through Amphipolis and Apollonia. They came to Thessalonica. There was...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO GO AS IT WERE TO THE SEA. — The English version conveys the impression that the movement was a feint in order to baffle the pursuers. Many of the better MSS., however, give “as far as the sea,” and...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels. He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, followin...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels. He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, followin...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    εὐθέως δὲ τότε : evidently the same riot and danger followed as at Thessalonica; St. Luke often passes over the difficulties and dangers which drove Paul from place to place (Ramsay). ὡς : if we read...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    STIRRED BY IDOLATRY Acts 17:13 From the first, the gospel was baptized in the fire of persecution. How unutterable the loneliness and sorrow of the Apostle as he reached Athens! Did doubt ever enter...

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

    At Thessalonica and Berea the apostle visited the synagogues, and again in each case persecution arose from the Jews. A sentence which fell from the lips of the leader of the mob shows with what rapid...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Preaching in Berea Paul and Silas immediately entered the synagogue to teach. Rather than base their decisions on the traditional teachings of man, the Bereans carefully examined the word of God to de...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (7) And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. (7) There is neither counsel, nor fury, nor madness against the Lord....

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    Timothy had remained back at Thessalonica; now arriving at Berea, he joins Silas, left by Paul in the prosecution of the work in Berea....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. (11) These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they r...

  • 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 Darby's Synopsis

    In the last case it was the power exercised by the enemy over the passions of the Gentiles that caused the persecution of the apostles: at Thessalonica we again find the old and universal enmity of th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEN IMMEDIATELY THE BRETHREN,.... That were at Berea, the new converts there: SENT AWAY PAUL, whom they knew the Jews mostly sought after, and were offended with: TO GO AS IT WERE TO THE SEA; t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. Ver. 14. _To go as it were to the sea_] This was a high point of wisdom, not t...

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

    _These were more noble_, &c. Greek, ευγενεστεροι, _more ingenuous_, or _generous;_ of a more excellent disposition, more open to conviction, as being less blinded by prejudice. To be teachable in the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND THEN IMMEDIATELY THE BRETHREN SENT AWAY PAUL TO GO, AS IT WERE, TO THE SEA; BUT SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS ABODE THERE STILL. If Paul and Silas had continued their work in Thessalonica after the events o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Preaching in Berea:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    From Philippi Paul and his company travelled westward in Greece to Thessalonica (also in Macedonia). A Jewish synagogue being there, they attended this for three sabbath days, reasoning with the Jews...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    THEN IMMEDIATELY THE BRETHREN SENT PAUL AWAY, TO GO TO THE SEA; BUT BOTH SILAS AND TIMOTHY REMAINED THERE. 1. The mission team is now split - three ways. Luke remained at Philippi. Now Silas and Timo...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "As far as the sea" The journey from Berea to the nearest seaport would have been around 20 miles. "Silas and Timothy remained there" The last time that Timothy was specifically mentioned, he was in P...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-15 The Jews in Berea applied seriously to the study of the word preached unto them. They not only heard Paul preach on the sabbath, but daily searched the Scriptures, and compared what they read w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO GO AS IT WERE TO THE SEA; that they might give over the pursuit of him; or, at least, be disappointed if they did pursue him, being he went on foot to Athens. BUT SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS ABODE THERE ST...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 17:14 G1161 Then G5119 immediately G2112 brethren G80 sent G1821 Paul G3972 away G1821 (G5656) go...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy dwelt there still.' The believers, however, were well up to it, and recognising that Paul was the m...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PAUL'S MINISTRY IN EUROPE AND THEN IN EPHESUS (17:1-19:20). Ministry in Europe (17:1-18:22). Fruitful Ministry in Thessalonica and Berea (17:1-14). Having been requested to leave Philippi, Paul and...

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

    Acts 17:14. TO GO AS IT WERE TO THE SEA. The accurate translation of the Greek ω ̔ ς ε ̓ πι ̀ κ. τ. λ is simply ‘as far as to the sea;' the English Version would seem to suggest a feint on the part of...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    AND THEN IMMEDIATELY (ευθεως δε τοτε). They acted swiftly as in Thessalonica.SENT FORTH (εξαπεστειλαν). Double compound (εξ, απο, both out and away) common in late Greek. First aorist active indi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Founding of church at Thessalonica and the Jewish opposition. Paul and Silas at Berea. Paul at Athens and the sermon from Mars' hill. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Silas, Jason, Caesar, philoso...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Acts 17:1. _When they had passed through Amphipolis._ Boiste adds the Roman name _Emboli._ It was built by Simon, the Athenian commander. It stood on an island formed in the river Strymon, and was cal...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THEY CAME THERE. A certain type of Jew followed Paul and tried to destroy the message of Christ. See note on Acts 14:19-20. SENT PAUL AWAY TO THE COAST. _Ramsay_ says Luke often passes over the diffic...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas unto Berea … These were more noble than those in Thessalonica._ FROM THESSALONICA TO BEREA 1. Paul and Silas were sent away “by night.” That is...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:10 Paul and Silas fled to Berea, 50 miles (81 km) by road southwest of Thessalonica. ⇐ ⇔

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:14 IMMEDIATELY SENT PAUL OFF. Apparently most of the opposition was directed against Paul. Thus, the believers sent him away, while allowing Silas and Timothy to remain among them...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 17:10. BŒREA.—Presently _Pheria_, south-west of Thessalonica, and fifty-one miles distant. Acts 17:12. MANY OF THEM BELIEVED.—_Codex Bezœ_ adds, “And some disbelieved.” The a...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ACTS 17:1 AMPHIPOLIS. This was the ancient capital of that division of Macedonia (Macedonia Prima); see Acts 16:12, note. It was situated on the Via Egnatia, thirty-four miles southwest f...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews (Acts 17:1): Now Luke passes that off in one verse. From Philippi to Amph...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 1:3; Acts 19:22; Acts 20:3; Acts 17:10; Acts 9:25;...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    The prudential care which the believing brethren took of the holy apostle, was observed before, ver. 10. His life being in danger at Thessalonica, they sent him to Berea; being pursued to Berea, they...

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