Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Acts 16:39
Desired them to depart] representing that in the excited state of the city it was impossible to protect them.
Desired them to depart] representing that in the excited state of the city it was impossible to protect them.
ACTS 16:39 evlqo,ntej … th/j po,lewj {A} Verses Acts 16:39 and Acts 16:40 in codex Bezae, sup...
AND THEY CAME AND BESOUGHT THEM - A most humiliating act for Roman magistrates, but in this case it was unavoidable. The apostles had them completely in their power, and could easily effect their disg...
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 ...
RECKONING WITH THE MAGISTRATES. The legal proceedings are to go no further. But Paul has two grievances to clear up with the magistrates before he will leave the prison. The proceedings of the former...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
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...
BROUGHT. Same word as "fetch" (Acts 16:37). DESIRED. were praying. Greek. _erotao._ App-134....
And so finding they had offended in this way, they come in the humblest wise, beseeching that the disciples by departing from Philippi will relieve them of their anxiety....
ἈΠΕΛΘΕΙ͂Ν� with אAB. _Vulg_. ‘egrederentur de urbe.’ 39. ἨΡΏΤΩΝ ΑΠΕΛΘΕΙ͂Ν�, _they desired them to depart from the city_. Finding how much they had offended, they become very humble, and beg the discip...
THE MAGISTRATES WOULD SEND THEM AWAY, BUT PAUL REFUSES TO BE THUS DISMISSED. HE ANNOUNCES THAT THEY ARE ROMANS, AND THE MAGISTRATES IN FEAR BESEECH THEM TO DEPART. THEY TAKE LEAVE OF LYDIA AND THE BRE...
_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...
ΈΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Acts 16:7. ΠΑΡΕΚΆΛΕΣΑΝ _aor._ Ind. _act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) звать, созывать, ΈΞΑΓΑΓΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Acts 16:37. ΉΡΏΤΩΝ _impf. ind. act....
AND BESOUGHT THEM— The word Παρεκαλεσαν, here rendered _besought,_ is in the very next verse, as well as in many other places, rendered _comforted;_ and so it should have been rendered here, as it giv...
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...
See notes on verse 37...
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city. AND THEY CAME (IN PERSON, NOT NOW SENDING THE LICTORS), AND BESOUGHT THEM - to forgive the wrong d...
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...
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...
See addition in, critical note. The fear of a further riot expressed by the magistrates is exactly what we should expect in the cities of the Ægean lands, which were always weak in their municipal gov...
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...
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...
Paul's Refusal to Depart Secretly The next morning, the magistrates sent to the prison to quietly release Paul and Silas. The apostle refused to go quietly, likely because he wanted the authorities to...
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go. (36) And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore de...
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...
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...
AND THEY CAME,.... To the prison in person, as Paul had insisted on they should: AND BESOUGHT THEM; that they would put up the injury that had been done them, and quietly depart out of prison: AND B...
And they came and besought them, and brought _them_ out, and desired _them_ to depart out of the city. Ver. 39. _And they came and besought them_] The matter is well amended since yesterday. How sudd...
_When it was day, the magistrates_ Or pretors, being terrified, probably, by the earthquake, which had been felt all over the city, and having been informed of the miraculous opening of the prison-doo...
BESOUGHT THEM; to overlook the injustice which had been done them, and to depart....
The release of the prisoners:...
AND THEY CAME AND BESOUGHT THEM, AND BROUGHT THEM OUT, AND DESIRED THEM TO DEPART OUT OF THE CITY....
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...
THEN THEY CAME AND PLEADED WITH THEM AND BROUGHT _THEM_ OUT, AND ASKED _THEM_ TO DEPART FROM THE CITY. 1. Now they come, not as high and mighty rulers, but humble, begging Paul not to sue them or pur...
"and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city" "Did their best to conciliate them" (TCNT). "Their self-importance was very healthily de...
35-40 Paul, though willing to suffer for the cause of Christ, and without any desire to avenge himself, did not choose to depart under the charge of having deserved wrongful punishment, and therefore...
Two things the magistrates had to desire of them: 1. That they would excuse the wrong done unto them, which they feared lest the Romans might revenge. 2. That, to avoid further mischiefs, (as they th...
Acts 16:39 Then G2532 came G2064 (G5631) pleaded G3870 (G5656) them G846 and G2532 out G1806 ...
‘And the lictors reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, and they came and besought them, and when they had brought them out, they asked th...
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...
THEY FEARED (εφοβηθησαν). This is the explanation. They became frightened for their own lives when they saw what they had done to Roman citizens.THEY ASKED (ηρωτων). Imperfect active of ερωταω. Th...
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...
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...
THE ROMAN AUTHORITIES. It may have been fear of the earthquake, or "second-thoughts" about their cruel treatment of "holy men" which influenced them to order the release. BUT PAUL SAID. Roman law said...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_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...
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,...
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...
Daniel 6:16; Daniel 6:23; Exodus 11:8; Isaiah 45:14; Isaiah 49:23;...