Men who reject the Christian religion, and have power, are apt to oppose those who embrace it, especially if they are zealous and successful in its propagation. They sometimes contend that the interests of the state require this; and ecclesiastics, clothed with secular authority, and destitute of the spirit of Christ, and often among the most fierce and malignant of persecutors.
Verse Acts 6:12. _AND THEY_] The Libertines, c., mentioned before, _stirred up the people_-raised a _mob_ against him, and, to assist and countenance the mob, got the _elders_ and _scribes_ to conduc...
AND THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE - They “excited” the people, or alarmed their fears, as had been done before when they sought to put the Lord Jesus to death, Matthew 27:20. THE ELDERS - The members of...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews (Acts 6:1)._ 2. Stephen; His Ministry and Arrest (Acts 6:8). Another failure is brought before us. The enemy acts again. From without...
ATTACK ON STEPHEN. This Hellenist Christian draws upon himself the attention of the people. He was full of grace; the inspiration which gave him his power led to disturbance from a synagogue or synago...
THE FIRST OFFICE-BEARERS (Acts 6:1-7)...
Stephen, full of grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. There arose in debate with Stephen certain members of the synagogue of the Libertines and of the Cyrenians and of...
STIRRED UP. Greek. _sunkineo._ Only here. Frequent in medical works. ELDERS, &C. See note on Acts 4:5, and App-189. CAUGHT. violently seized. Greek. _sunarpazo._ Only here, Acts 19:29; Acts 27:15, an...
_And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes_ of whom the latter two classes had already been exasperated against the Apostles. And now that it was told them that the glory of the...
ΣΥΝΕΚΊΝΗΣΆΝ ΤΕ ΤῸΝ ΛΑΌΝ, _and they stirred up the people_, who would be easily roused, if they were told that the glory of the Temple was spoken against. It was an object of much admiration, as we can...
OF STEPHEN’S PREACHING, ARREST AND ACCUSATION...
_THE FACE OF AN ANGEL ACTS 6:12-15:_ The Jews were unable to answer the things that Stephen taught about Jesus. They accused him of blasphemy against Moses and the customs he had delivered. They charg...
ΣΥΝΕΚΊΝΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΓΚΙΝΈΩ (G4787) вызывать сильные переживания, подогревать страсти, возбуждать, ΈΠΙΣΤΆΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΈΦΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G2186) набрасываться. Inch, _aor....
AT THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE LIBERTINES. Acts 6:9 to Acts 12:9 Acts 6:9 But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue called the synagogue of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the...
See notes on verse 11...
And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, AND THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE, AND THE ELDERS, AND THE SCRIBES,...
36 The fact that this Theudas is not mentioned in profane literature is no reason for doubting the truthfulness and accuracy of the narrative. Josephus, in his Antiquities, hints at many disturbances...
THE PREACHING, MIRACLES, AND ARREST OF STEPHEN. The reason why the preaching of Stephen gave so much greater offence than that of the Twelve probably was that he saw that the coming of Christ virtuall...
STEPHEN AND THE SEVEN 1-7. The Hebrew-speaking Jews, who were in a majority in the Church of Jerusalem, were inclined to despise and neglect the minority who spoke Greek. In particular, the Greek-spea...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 6 THE *APOSTLES CHOOSE 7 MEN TO HELP THEM, 6:1-7 V1 At this time, the *disciples grew in number. Some *Jews spoke *Greek and other *Jews spoke...
CHAPTER 15 ST. STEPHEN'S DEFENCE AND THE DOCTRINE OF INSPIRATION. Acts 6:12; Acts 7:1 ST. STEPHEN and St. Philip are the two prominent names among the primitive deacons. Stephen, however, much surpa...
CHAPTER 11 HONESTY AND PRETENCE IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH Acts 4:36; Acts 6:1 THE exact period in the history of the apostolic Church at which we have now arrived is a most interesting one. We stand...
συνεκίνησαν : not found in LXX or other Greek versions of O.T., or in the Apocrypha, _cf._ Polyb., xv., 17, 1, so too in Plutarch. As this word and συνήρπασαν are found only in St. Luke it is perhaps...
MEETING MURMURING WITHIN AND PERSECUTION WITHOUT Acts 6:1-15 The Grecians here mentioned were Jews who had lived abroad and spoke Greek. There were as yet no Gentiles in the Church. It was regarded...
The story alternates between the opposition of the outside crowd and the condition of the Church in its own borders. A difficulty arose concerning the distribution of relief which had a national tone....
One of the Seven, Stephen, Accused of Blasphemy The record of great miracles being wrought by Stephen is the first such by anyone other than an apostle. It should be noted that such was not accomplish...
(9) And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon [him], and caught him, and brought [him] to the council, (9) The first bloody persecution of the Church of Christ, b...
STEPHEN'S MINISTRY 8-15. Though Stephen was but a poor, uncultured layman, honored with the office of deacon, _i. e_., permitted to sweep the floor, and light the lamps, and collect money to support t...
And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. (9) Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, an...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
12.Being overcome with the power of the Spirit, they give over disputing, but they prepare false witnesses, that with false and slanderous reports, they may oppress him; whereby it appeareth that they...
Other evils, unhappily, assail the church (Chapter 6). The flesh begins to shew itself, in the midst of the power of the Holy Ghost, the trouble arising from the different circumstances of the discipl...
AND THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE,.... The common people, who were easily wrought upon, and soon incensed and provoked, when at any time it was suggested to them that the rituals and ceremonies of the la...
And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon _him_, and caught him, and brought _him_ to the council, Ver. 12. _Caught him, and brought him_] _Sic vi geritur res, _...
_Then they suborned men_ As they found they were incapable of defending themselves by fair argument, they had recourse to a most mean and dishonest fraud; _they suborned men_ to bear false witness aga...
AND THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE, AND THE ELDERS, AND THE SCRIBES, AND CAME UPON HIM, AND CAUGHT HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE COUNCIL,...
THE TESTIMONY OF STEPHEN. Acts 6:9...
A second time, however, difficulty arises from within Satan's enmity from without was clearly evident. In Ch.5.1-3 Satan had sought to underhandedly get in among the saints, but this had been exposed....
AND THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE, THE ELDERS, AND THE SCRIBES; AND THEY CAME UPON _HIM,_ SEIZED HIM, AND BROUGHT _HIM_ TO THE COUNCIL. 1. They got the people, elders and the scribes stirred up. Again,...
And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council, 'STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE'-'roused the feelings of the people' (Knox...
8-15 When they could not answer Stephen's arguments as a disputant, they prosecuted him as a criminal, and brought false witnesses against him. And it is next to a miracle of providence, that no grea...
Being overcome by reason and arguments, they betake themselves to all the evil arts imaginable; they suborn witnesses against St. Stephen, as was done against Naboth, and (that we read of) never befor...
Acts 6:12 And G5037 up G4787 (G5656) people G2992 G2532 elders G4245 and G2532 scribes G1122 and...
‘And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came on him, and seized him, and brought him into the council,' They were in fact so effective in what they said that ‘the people'...
THE PREACHING AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN (6:8-7:60). It is one of the exciting things about serving God that we never know what He is going to do next. In Acts 6:1 the Apostles had rid themselves of the...
Acts 6:12. AND THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE. It was above all things necessary for the enemies of these Nazarenes to have public opinion on their side. We have seen how popular favour on a former occasi...
THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE (συνεκινησαν τον λαον). They shook the people together like an earthquake. First aorist active indicative of συνκινεω, to throw into commotion. Old verb, but here only in...
Acts 6:11 The first Christian Martyr. Look: I. At Stephen as a man. The third verse gives us to understand that he was a man of "honest report:" literally, a man well testified of the public bore him...
Acts 6; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of each o...
CONTENTS: The first deacons. Third persecution. Stephen before the council. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, apostles, Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Nicolas, priests, Mose...
Acts 6:1. _A murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews._ The original word here rendered Grecians is _Hellenists;_ from Hellen, son of Deucalion, king of Thessalia, who was drowned during the inun...
THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE. By their slander. Up till now, the Christians had been popular for the most part (_see_ Acts 6:7). These "Free Men" try to turn public opinion against Stephen and the Chris...
_And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people._ THE LAST FIRST I. The points in which Stephen was last. 1. His position was entirely subordinate. The deacons...
_Then they suborned men._ THE ACCUSATION OF STEPHEN I. Its authors (Acts 6:9). Observe here-- 1. That moral perversity is common to men of every race. All these men, “Libertines,” etc., differing w...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 6:8 Stephen ministered to the needy and also taught the Word and performed WONDERS AND SIGNS. ⇐...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 6:1 The Witness beyond Jerusalem. Beginning with Greek-speaking Jewish Christians in Jerusalem (Acts 6:1), the Christian gospel was proclaimed to an ever-widening circle
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 6:8. FAITH.—According to the best texts should be _grace_ (Acts 4:33); the change having probably been made to correspond with Acts 6:5. Acts
EXPOSITION ACTS 6:1 _Now in these _for _and in those, _A.V. (it is not ἐκείναις_, _answering to מהֵהָ מימַיָבַּ, but ταύταις); _multiplying _for _multiplied, _A.V._; Grecian Jews _for _Grecians, _...
Now in those days, when the number of disciples was multiplied (Acts 6:1), We found the Lord adding to the church and now He's multiplying. I love the Lord's mathematics. there arose a murmuring (Ac...
Acts 13:50; Acts 14:2; Acts 16:19; Acts 17:13; Acts 17:5;...
They stirred up the people [σ υ ν ε κ ι ν η σ α ν τ ο ν λ α ο ν]. The verb occurs only here in the New Testament. It implies to stir up as a mass, to move them together [σ υ ν]. This is the first reco...
OBEDIENT TO THE FAITH Acts 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS May we tarry a while to study The Business Side of Church Life. Our text (Acts 6:3) says that there are three requirements: (1) Honest report; (2)...