conducted. Greek. kathistemi. Only here in this sense. Generally translated "make", "appoint". Here the brethren made all the arrangements.
unto. as far as. Greek. heos.
receiving. having received.
for to. in order that (Greek. hina) they should.
with all speed. as quickly as possible. Greek. hos tachista. Only here.
departed. Greek. exeimi. See Acts 13:42.
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,lass...
Verse Acts 17:15. _BROUGHT HIM UNTO ATHENS_] This was one of the most celebrated cities in the world, whether we consider its _antiquity_, its _learning_, its _political consequence_, or the _valour_...
UNTO ATHENS - This was the first visit of Paul to this celebrated city; and perhaps the first visit of a Christian minister. His success in this city, for some cause, was not great, but his preaching...
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...
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...
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...
IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
_they that conducted Paul_ The use of the Greek verb (which is only found here in N. T. in this sense) gives the idea that the whole care and ordering of the journey was in their hands rather than the...
αὐτὸν before ἝΩΣ ἈΘΗΝΩ͂Ν omitted with אABD. _Vulg_. has ‘eum.’ 15. ΟἹ ΔῈ ΚΑΘΙΣΤΆΝΟΝΤΕΣ, _and they who conducted_. This form καθιστάνω, which is found nowhere else in N.T. in this sense, is the same wo...
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...
_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...
ΚΑΘΙΣΤΆΝΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΚΑΘΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G2525) приводить на какое-л. место, ΉΓΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΓ (G71) вести, приводить, ΛΑΒΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (conymcme.)_ от ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G...
ATHENS:— This celebrated city, whether we consider the antiquity, valour, power, or learning of its inhabitants, has had few to rival it. It is situated in the middle of a large plain, on the gulph of...
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 -...
15-17. (15) "_Now they who conducted Paul led him to Athens; and having received a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed._ (16) _And while...
And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed. AND THEY THAT CONDUCTED PAUL BROUGHT HIM...
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...
UNTO ATHENS] D adds: 'But he passed by (i.e. did not preach in) Thessaly, for he was prevented from preaching the word to them.' It appears from 1 Thessalonians 3:1 that Timothy and Silas did actually...
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...
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...
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...
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...
καθιστῶντες, see critical note, _i.e._, the Berœan brethren. In N.T. only here in this sense, _cf._ Joshua 6:23; 2 Chronicles 28:15, so also in classical Greek and in later Greek (instances in Wetstei...
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...
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...
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...
(8) And they that conducted Paul (e) brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed. (8) The sheep of Christ also watch...
Now the brethren escort Paul in his journey southward all the way to Athens, the great metropolis of Greece, enjoying Roman freedom and the brightest light of civilization and education, poetry, orato...
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...
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...
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...
AND THEY THAT CONDUCTED PAUL,.... From Berea to the sea side: BROUGHT HIM UNTO ATHENS; a famous city in Attica, where both q Pliny and Ptolomy r place it, well known for the learning and wisdom of th...
And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed. Ver. 15. _Brought him unto Athens_] The ey...
_They that conducted Paul brought him_ By land, εως, _as far as Athens_ That celebrated, unequalled seat of learning among the Greeks. It is true, Athens had now passed the zenith of its political spl...
ATHENS; the most distinguished city in Greece, and the seat of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts....
PAUL IN ATHENS. The arrival and the first discussions:...
AND THEY THAT CONDUCTED PAUL BROUGHT HIM UNTO ATHENS; AND RECEIVING A COMMANDMENT UNTO SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS FOR TO COME TO HIM WITH ALL SPEED, THEY DEPARTED....
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...
SO THOSE WHO CONDUCTED PAUL BROUGHT HIM TO ATHENS; AND RECEIVING A COMMAND FOR SILAS AND TIMOTHY TO COME TO HIM WITH ALL SPEED, THEY DEPARTED. 1. Some of the brethren from Berea escort Paul to see hi...
"Now those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens" brethren escorted Paul to Athens. The distance between Berea to Athens by land was 250 miles, or about 12 days, but it was only. days by sea...
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...
THEY THAT CONDUCTED PAUL; who accompanied, and had undertaken to secure him. ATHENS; the Greece of Greece, or the eye of Greece; as Greece was accounted the eye of the world; and yet, with all its lea...
15-17. (15) "_ Now they who conducted Paul led him to Athens; and having received a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed._ (16) _And whil...
Acts 17:15 So G1161 conducted G2525 (G5723) Paul G3972 brought G71 (G5627) him G846 to G2193 Athens...
‘But those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed, they departed.' His companions from Berea brought...
EFFECTIVE MINISTRY IN ATHENS (17:15-34). His Berean guides saw Paul safely to Athens. This had not been where he was originally aiming for. After Thessalonica his intention had probably been to procee...
_Paul at Athens,_ 15-34. Acts 17:15. BROUGHT HIM UNTO ATHENS. The once famous centre of Greek thought and culture, long the dominant power among the varied states of which ancient Greece was made up,...
BUT THEY THAT CONDUCTED PAUL (ο δε καθιστανοντες τον Παυλον). Articular present active participle of καθιστανω (late form in A B of καθιστημ or καθισταω), an old verb with varied uses to put down,...
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...
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...
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...
_And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athena _ PAUL AT ATHENS I. The place which the apostle visited. Athens. II. The feelings of which he was the subject. Not of admiration at the masterp...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:10 Paul and Silas fled to Berea, 50 miles (81 km) by road southwest of Thessalonica. ⇐ ⇔
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:15 A COMMAND FOR SILAS AND TIMOTHY TO COME TO HIM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Luke does not give many details here about the travels of Silas and Timothy. Paul gives more information in...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Thessalonians 3:1; 2 Timothy 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:11; 2 Timothy 4:20;...