And stirred up the people.— The word σαλευοντες, rendered stirred up, signifies primarilyraising a storm. It expresses a violent agitation of the sea, and admirably illustrates the rage and fury of a seditious multitude. Comp. Psalms 90:3. Isaiah 17:12. Jeremiah 46:7.
ACTS 17:13 kai. tara,ssontej tou.j o;clouj {B} Many witnesses, including î45 E P 049 056 0120 0142 _al,_ followed by the Textus Receptus, lack the words kai. tara,ssontej. The shorter text appears to...
Verse Acts 17:13. _THE JEWS OF THESSALONICA - STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE._] With what implacable malice did these men persecute the Gospel! And in the same spirit they continue to the present day, though i...
STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE - The word used here σαλεύειν saleuein denotes properly “to agitate” or “excite,” as the waves of the sea are agitated by the wind. It is with great beauty used to denote the “a...
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)...
OF. from. Greek. _apo._ App-104. HAD KNOWLEDGE. got to know. Greek. _ginosko._ App-132. GOD. App-98. PREACHED. Greek. _katangello._ App-121. AT. in. Greek. _en._ AND STIRRED UP. stirring up. Greek...
_the word of God_ The Thessalonian Jews would not have termed it so, to such an extent had prejudice and long training in the later Jewish teaching blinded their eyes. When Moses was read there was a...
ΚΑῚ ΤΑΡΆΣΣΟΝΤΕΣ added before ΤΟῪΣ ὌΧΛΟΥΣ with אABD. _Vulg_. ‘et turbantes.’ 13. Ὁ ΛΌΓΟΣ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂, _the word of God_. This is the language of the author. The Thessalonian Jews would not have called...
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...
ΈΓΝΩΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. Inch, _aor._, "приходить к знанию". ΚΑΤΗΓΓΈΛΗ _aor. ind. pass._, _см._ Acts 17:3. ΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 17:1. ΣΑΛΕΎΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. pa...
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
13, 14. There seemed to be no serious obstacle to the gospel in Berea, and the disciples may have begun to flatter themselves with the hope that the whole city would turn to the Lord, when an unexpect...
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. BUT WHEN THE JEWS OF THESSALONICA HAD KNOWLEDG...
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...
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...
THEY CAME THITHER ALSO, AND STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE. — To the unbelieving Jews of Thessalonica the conversions at Berœa were simply a cause of offence. It is apparently with reference to this that St. P...
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...
οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Θ. Ἰ.: as before in the first journey, the bitter and enduring malice of the Jews followed Paul from one place to another, and the use of his name alone shows that he was their chief aim. κ...
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...
(6) But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. (6) Satan has his who are zealous for him, a...
Now leaving Timothy at Thessalonica to continue the meeting, Paul, Silas and Luke continue their journey southward, fifty-seven miles to Berea, also a prominent city, where there is a synagogue of the...
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...
− 13._And when the Jews. _We see how the Jews were carried to and fro with such hatred of the gospel as could never be appeased. For they do not only expel Christ furiously when he is offered unto 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...
BUT WHEN THE JEWS OF THESSALONICA,.... The unbelieving Jews there, HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT THE WORD OF GOD WAS PREACHED OF PAUL AT BEREA; which they came at, either by persons that came from thence to The...
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. Ver. 13. _They came thither also_] Thus they ple...
_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...
The uneasiness which men feel when others receive the blessings which they themselves reject, is evidence of deep wickedness of heart. In refusing to enter the kingdom of heaven, and in trying to hind...
BUT WHEN THE JEWS OF THESSALONICA HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT THE WORD OF GOD WAS PREACHED OF PAUL AT BEREA, THEY CAME THITHER ALSO AND STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE....
Preaching in Berea:...
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...
BUT WHEN THE JEWS FROM THESSALONICA LEARNED THAT THE WORD OF GOD WAS PREACHED BY PAUL AT BEREA, THEY CAME THERE ALSO AND STIRRED UP THE CROWDS. 1. As word spread that Paul was in Berea and having suc...
"Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there likewise" The same evil zeal that characterized the unbelieving Jews on the first journe...
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...
As the waves are stirred with the wind; a fit metaphor to represent the fickle multitude by, that, as the sea, now rolls one way, then another; or as tottering buildings, that shake with every wind....
13, 14. There seemed to be no serious obstacle to the gospel in Berea, and the disciples may have begun to flatter themselves with the hope that the whole city would turn to the Lord, when an unexpect...
Acts 17:13 But G1161 when G5613 Jews G2453 from G575 Thessalonica G2332 learned G1097 (G5627) that G3754...
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...
‘But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed of Paul at Berea also, they came there in the same way, stirring up and troubling the multitudes.' But news of what...
Acts 17:13. THEY CAME THITHER ALSO, AND STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE. These short notices in the ‘Acts' of the steady, unwearied pursuit of Paul from city to city give us a hint at least of that restless bit...
WAS PROCLAIMED (κατηγγελη). Second aorist passive indicative of καταγγελλω, common late verb as in Acts 16:21.OF PAUL (υπο Παυλου). By Paul, of course.STIRRING UP AND TROUBLING THE MULTITUDES (σ...
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 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. ⇐ ⇔
_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 Kings 21:25; 1 Thessalonians 2:14; Acts 14:2; Acts 21:27; Acts 6:12
They that conducted [κ α θ ι σ τ ω ν τ ε ς]. Lit., brought to the spot. Note the different word employed, ch. 14 3 (see note there)....