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Verse 34. _HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM_] They were sufficiently
exhausted, and needed refreshment; nor had the apostles any such
inherent miraculous power as could prevent them from suffering through
hun...
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HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM - Food. Greek: “he placed a table.” The
word “meat” formerly meant “food” of all kinds.
AND REJOICED - This was the effect of believing. Religion produces
joy. See the notes on...
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CHAPTER 16
_ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._
2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6).
3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9).
4. The Gospel in Europe ...
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IMPRISONMENT OF PAUL AND SILAS. THE PRISON BROKEN. The rulers (Acts
16:19) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called _Strategi,
which_ answers to the Roman _Prœ tores._ Philippi was a colony...
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About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God
and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great
earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken.
I...
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A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
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BROUGHT. Greek. _anago._ Same as "loosed", Acts 16:11.
SET MEAT. placed. table. Compare Psalms 23:5.
REJOICED. See noteon "was glad", Acts 2:26.
BELIEVING. App-150.
WITH ALL HIS HOUSE. Gree
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_he set meat_(Greek, _a table) before them_ He would not leave them a
moment in the dungeon, but testify to them, how the dawning of faith
had filled him with joy.
_and rejoiced, believing in God with...
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αὐτοῦ omitted after αἶκον with BCP. _Vulg_. ‘in domum
suam.’
34. ΠΑΡΈΘΗΚΕΝ ΤΡΆΠΕΖΑΝ, _he set meat_ (lit. _a
table_) _before them_. He would not let them remain longer in the
dungeon, but took means t...
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PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA.
A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE
GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE
A...
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_THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILER IN PHILIPPI ACTS 16:16-40:_ At a place
of prayer in Philippi Paul and Silas came across a girl that had a
spirit of divination. Her masters made a lot of money from her p...
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AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40
a.
A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12.
Acts 16:12
and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first
of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in...
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See notes on verse 33...
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And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them,
and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE, HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM,
[ pare...
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19 This is the first occasion in which the evangel comes into conflict
with the religion of the nations and with the spirit powers back of
it. Hitherto the Jews and Judaism opposed the evangel. At Lys...
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16:34 house, (g-19) An adverb -- 'rejoiced householdly.'...
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ST. PAUL IN EUROPE
1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was
perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated
the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
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Journey into Europe, Philippi.
6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having
been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra
(Acts 16:6) they received a...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 16
TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5
V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called
Timothy lived there. Timothy...
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HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM, AND REJOICED. — Literally, _set a table
before them._ The two sufferers may well have needed food. If the
tumult had begun, as is probable, as they were going to the
_proseucl...
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ἀναγαγών τε αὐτοὺς : τε closely connects this
second proof of his thankfulness with the first ἀναγ.: “he
brought them up into,” R.V.; Blass thinks that the ἀνά means
that he brought them up from under...
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SALVATION IN THE JAIL
Acts 16:25
Some, as we have seen, are converted by the gentle opening of the
heart; others amid the convulsions of the storm. The first knowledge
of salvation may have reached t...
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Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found
Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in
view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with
i...
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The Conversion of the Jailor
At midnight, while the other prisoners listened to Paul and Silas
singing and praying, a great earthquake shook open all the prison
doors and released all those bound in...
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The awakened and panic-stricken jailer, knowing that cruel Roman law
will require his life as substitute for the fugitive prisoner, in the
absence of Bible light on suicide, and with the noble example...
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_“And leading them into his house he placed a table by them and
rejoiced all over the house, believing in God.”_ Here we see that
the jailer, having received a glorious old-style jumping conversion,
l...
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And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and
the prisoners heard them. (26) And suddenly there was a great
earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and
i...
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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...
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_THE JAILER’S CONVERSION_
‘And when he had brought them into his house he set meat before
them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.’
Acts 16:34
The jailer was brought near to the uns...
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34._He rejoiceth that he believed. _The external profession of faith
was before commended in the jailer; now the inward fruit thereof is
described. When he did lodge the apostles, − (225) and was no...
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There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which
Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty
to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
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AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE,.... After he and his
family had been baptized, either in the pool in the prison, or in the
river near the city of Philippi:
HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM; he sp...
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And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them,
and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Ver. 34. _And rejoiced, believing_] A prick with a pin may and doth
many times...
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_And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ_ Whom it is our
office to preach as the great and only Saviour; and confide wholly in
him for salvation; loving, obeying, and living to his glory. As P...
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The conversion of the jailer:...
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AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE, HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM,
AND REJOICED, BELIEVING IN GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE.
In the excess of his first terror, the keeper of the prison had not
even though...
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Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted
before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who
had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
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NOW WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE, HE SET FOOD BEFORE THEM;
AND HE REJOICED, HAVING BELIEVED IN GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD.
1. This verse proves that the household of the jailer did not inc...
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"And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and
rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God"Up into
his house" After being baptized. "As. jailer he was not actin...
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25-34 The consolations of God to his suffering servants are neither
few nor small. How much more happy are true Christians than their
prosperous enemies! As in the dark, so out of the depths, we may...
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INTO HIS HOUSE; which was close unto, or a separate part of, the
prison, into which they did ascend, being before in a low dungeon. HE
SET MEAT BEFORE THEM; Paul and Silas had been long fasting, and i...
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Acts 16:34 Now G5037 brought G321 (G5631) them G846 into G1519 house
G3624 set G3908 food G5132 them...
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MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40).
The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He
illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description
of P...
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‘And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them,
and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.'
Furthermore he also brought them into the part of the prison build...
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ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT LEAD TO ADDITIONS TO THE CHURCH IN PHILIPPI
(16:19-34).
But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pockets.
They did not care about the girl herself, they had...
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Acts 16:34. AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE. Literally
translated, ‘brought them up,' that is, from the court in which they
then were, _up_ into his house which was ‘above' the prison cour...
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HE BROUGHT THEM UP
(αναγαγων). Second aorist active participle of αναγω. It
looks as if his house was above the prison. The baptism apparently
took place in the pool or tank in which he bathed Paul...
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Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a
man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia,
and help us._
Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
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CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first
convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten.
Conversion of the Philippian jailer.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
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Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former
labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy
her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
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AND FELL TREMBLING. He is convinced they are under divine protection!
WHAT MUST I DO? Paul's answer to this question shows the jailer knew
they preached a new religion. BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS. This...
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_And they spake unto him the Word of the Lord, and to all that were in
his house._
HOUSEHOLD SALVATION
It sometimes happens that a good man has to go alone to heaven:
God’s election has separated him...
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_Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling._
THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER
I. The state of his mind before conversion.
1. He was a careless sinner. This appears not so much from his
offi...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in
which Paul witnessed.
⇐ ⇔...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:34 REJOICED signifies a deep spiritual joy in
the NT (compare Luke 10:21; John 8:56
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 16:19. THE RULERS, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates
(Luke 12:58).
Acts 16:20. The MAGISTRATES, στρατηγοί, were the two chief
civic authorities (dunmviri) in a Roman colony...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 16:1
_And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra
_for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess
_for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
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We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention
between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first
missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
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1 John 3:18; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 4:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:9;...
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Brought [α ν α γ α γ ω ν]. Lit., "brought up [α ν α]." His
house would seem to have been above the court of the prison where they
were. See on took, verse 33.
Believing [π ε π ι σ τ ε υ κ ω ς]. More...
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He set a table before them and rejoiced — Faith makes a man joyful,
prudent, liberal....
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See here. special evidence and sweet fruit of the gaoler's conversion;
he brings the apostles, who were the instruments of his conversion,
into his house; and having washed their stripes, refreshes th...