Scofield's Bible Commentary
Acts 13:6
sorcerer
(Greek, "magos").
See (Matthew 2:1); "wise men."
The same word was used for a vulgar magician, and for a true wise man of the East.
sorcerer
(Greek, "magos").
See (Matthew 2:1); "wise men."
The same word was used for a vulgar magician, and for a true wise man of the East.
ACTS 13:6 dielqo,ntej According to Haenchen, the Western reading, “And when they had gone _around_ the whole island as far as Paphos …” (kai. perielqo,ntwn (+ de, D, omit itd) auvtw/n, D itgig vg Luc...
Verse Acts 13:6. _GONE THROUGH THE ISLE_] ολην, _The WHOLE isle_, is added here by ABCDE, several others, both the _Syrian, Coptic,_ _AEthiopic, Armenian, Vulgate_, and _Itala_; and also by several of...
AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE ISLE - The length of the island, according to Strabo, was 1,400 stadia, or nearly 170 miles. UNTO PAPHOS - Paphos was a city at the western extremity of the island....
PART III The Witness to the Gentiles. The Apostle to the Gentiles; his Ministry and Captivity. Chapter s 13-28 CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Divine Choice. Barnabas and Saul separated unto the work (Acts 1...
SUCCESSES IN CYPRUS. Acts 13:4. went down: the usual phrase in connexion with a seaport. SELEUCIA is the port of Antioch, about sixteen miles from it. Acts 13:5. Salamis is the eastern port of Cyprus...
THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Acts 13:1-3) Acts 13:1-52; Acts 14:1-28 tell the story of the first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas set out from Antioch. Antioch was 15 miles up the River Orontes...
So when they had been sent out by the Holy Spirit they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus. When they were in Salamis they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogue of t...
UNTO. as far as. PAPHOS. The capital and residence of the governor. certain. Greek. _tis._ App-123. SORCERER. Greek. _magos._ Here, Acts 13:8, and Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:7;...
_And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos_ Probably teaching at other places in the same way as they had done in Salamis. Paphos was the capital of Cyprus, and therefore the residence of th...
ὍΛΗΝ added before ΤῊΝ ΝΗ͂ΣΟΝ with אABCDE. _Vulg_. ‘universam insulam.’ 6. ΔΙΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ ὍΛΗΝ ΤῊΝ ΝΗ͂ΣΟΝ ἌΧΡΙ ΠΆΦΟΥ, _and when they had gone through the whole island unto Paphos_. Probably teaching at...
Acts 13:1-12. BEGINNING OF SAUL’S FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY. HE VISITS CYPRUS...
_ELYMAS, A FALSE PROPHET, A SORCERER ACTS 13:4-12:_ John Mark accompanied Paul and Barnabas as they went to Seleucia and then sailed to the island of Cyprus. In Salamis they began to preach God's mess...
ΔΙΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act._ pari, _(temp.)_ от. ΔΙΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1330) проходить через, ΕΎΡΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΥΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, ΜΆΓΟΣ (G3097) маг (ВС, 5:164-88; о широком распространении магии и...
PAPHOS,— The city of Paphos was seated on the western extremity of the island of Cyprus, and famous among the Heathens for the temple and obscene worship of the Paphian Venus. There resided Sergius Pa...
AT PAPHOS. Acts 13:6-12. Acts 13:6 And when they had gone through the whole island unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus; Acts 13:7 who was wi...
6, 7. Luke is entirely silent in reference to the effect of the apostolic preaching in Salamis, leaving us to suppose that it was not great. After stating that they preached in the synagogues of the J...
And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus: AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE ISLE - `the whole isle,' acc...
17 The death of James and the escape of Peter mark a crisis in the history of the kingdom proclamation. The power in Jerusalem passes out of the hands of the apostles into the hands of James, the Lord...
ST. PAUL AS A MISSIONARY 1. Prophets] see on Acts 11:27. SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER] Niger was a Roman cognomen. LUCIUS OF CYRENE] doubtless one of those Cyrenians who first preached at Antioch (Act...
A.. SORCERER] lit. 'a magus.' Here in a bad sense: see on Matthew 2:1....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 THE *HOLY SPIRIT CHOOSES BARNABAS AND SAUL, 13:1-3 V1 There were some *prophets and teachers in the *church at Antioch. They were Barnabas,...
WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE ISLE. — The better MSS. give, _through the whole island._ Paphos lay at its western extremity, and appears to have been the head-quarters of the Roman governor. A local...
διελθόντες δὲ (ὅλην) τὴν ν.: “and they made a missionary progress through the whole island,” Ramsay, _St. Paul_, pp. 72 and 384, and “Words demoting Missionary Travel in Acts,” _Expositor_, May, 1896;...
BEGINNING A MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN Acts 13:1-12 This is one of the greatest Chapter s in the New Testament, making a new departure in the ministry of the gospel, which henceforth begins to pass out to t...
The first most distinctly missionary movement sprang from Antioch, and was independent of all official initiation. A company of those in Antioch sent Saul and Barnabas, and it is declared immediately...
Preaching at Paphos The company first went to Seleucia, which was the port city of Antioch. It was located about 16 miles downstream. They sailed approximately one hundred miles to Salamis, the larges...
_A magician... whose name was Bar-jesu, son of Jesus, or Josue. In Arabic, Elymas is the same as magician. This man did all he could to dissuade the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, from embracing the Chris...
SATAN'S PREACHER AND THE CONVERSION OF THE PROCONSUL 6-12. Having traveled across the island of Cyprus throughout the whole length from east to west, everywhere preaching the Word, they arrive at Paph...
And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister. (6) And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they foun...
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...
6._When they had passed over. _It is to be thought that this their passage was not altogether without fruit; and, assuredly, Luke would never have passed over with silence a general repulse; but it wa...
We come now to the beginning of the direct history of the work, new in some important respects, that is, connected with Paul's mission by the immediate intervention of the Holy Ghost. It is not now Ch...
AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE ISLE UNTO PAPHOS,.... The Alexandrian copy, and the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "the whole isle"; for through the midst of the whole island they must go,...
And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name _was_ Barjesus: Ver. 6. _Whose name was Barjesus_] The son of Jesus; so he had c...
_When they had gone through the isle unto Paphos_ Which lay on its western coast; _they found a certain sorcerer_ Or magician; _a false prophet_ Who falsely pretended to foretel future events; _a Jew,...
PAPHOS; a city on the west side of Cyprus. SORCERER; a magician, or fortune-teller; one who pretended to foretell future events. BAR - JESUS; meaning, son of a man named Jesus, or Joshua....
AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE ISLE UNTO PAPHOS, THEY FOUND A CERTAIN SORCERER, A FALSE PROPHET, A JEW, WHOSE NAME WAS BAR-JESUS;...
On the island of Cyprus:...
From this time our attention is drawn particularly to the work of Saul, whose name is in this chapter changed to Paul, meaning "little," for one who is the most greatly used of God is, in his own esti...
NOW WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE ISLAND TO PAPHOS, THEY FOUND A CERTAIN SORCERER, A FALSE PROPHET, A JEW WHOSE NAME _WAS_ BAR-JESUS, 1. Paphos - a city at the far western end of Cyprus. They had co...
Here we learn that they crossed the entire island going from town to town and synagogue to synagogue. The length of the entire island is about 150 miles and it is 100 miles from Salamis to Paphos. "Pa...
4-13 Satan is in a special manner busy with great men and men in power, to keep them from being religious, for their example will influence many. Saul is here for the first time called Paul, and neve...
UNTO PAPHOS; this city was on the west end of Cyprus, so that going from Salamis they went through the island: this place was famous for the worshipping of Venus. A CERTAIN SORCERER; there were many m...
6, 7. Luke is entirely silent in reference to the effect of the apostolic preaching in Salamis, leaving us to suppose that it was not great. After stating that they preached in the synagogues of the J...
Tertullian On Idolatry Both he and that other magician, who was with Sergius Paulus, (since he began opposing himself to the same apostles) was mulcted with loss of eyes.[56] Tertullian On Modesty...
Acts 13:6 Now G1161 through G1330 (G5631) island G3520 to G891 Paphos G3974 found G2147 (G5627) certain...
THE EXPANSION OF THE WORD IN CYPRUS AND ASIA MINOR, WITH SATAN'S COUNTERATTACK BEING DEFEATED AT AN ASSEMBLY IN JERUSALEM, WHICH IS THEN FOLLOWED BY FURTHER MINISTRY (13:1-18:22). Jerusalem having for...
THE MINISTRY OF PAUL AND BARNABAS RESULTS IN THE COUNTER-ATTACK OF SATAN AND THE GATHERING AT JERUSALEM (13:1-15:35). Leaving Antioch under the direct commissioning of the Holy Spirit, in a parallel c...
‘And when they had gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer (magos), a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus, who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man o...
Acts 13:6. UNTO PAPHOS. Salamis was at the eastern extremity of Cyprus, Paphos at the western. The apostles had thus passed through the whole length of the island. New Paphos was then the capital and...
UNTO PAPHOS (αχρ Παφου). The new Paphos at the other end of the island, reached by a fine Roman road, some eight miles north of the old Paphos famous for the worship of Venus.A CERTAIN SORCERER, A...
CONTENTS: Paul and Barnabas called. Satanic opposition from a sorcerer. Paul's sermon in the synagogue at Antioch. Opposition from Jews. Paul and Barnabas turn to Gentiles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Ho...
Acts 13:1. _The church that was at Antioch,_ which was counted one of the five apostolic churches. It is the true church by way of eminence, the synagogue having degenerated into a state of warfare wi...
ACROSS THE ISLAND TO PAPHOS. The island is about 130 miles long by 50 miles wide. Salamis is at the east end, and Paphos at the west end. Paphos was the capital, and famous for the worship of Venus. A...
_As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate unto Me Barnabas and Saul._ THE COMPLETION OF THE APOSTOLATE This act was no conferring of the apostleship by the prophets a...
_And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away._ UNDYING FAME History has contemptuously obliterated from her annals the names of countless kings, who have se...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:6 PAPHOS was 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Salamis. It was the seat of the Roman government of Cyprus. BAR-JESUS. Paul’s later description of him as a “son of the devil” suggests...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:4 The two missionaries worked first on Cyprus, Barnabas’s home (Acts 4:36). The events of Paul’s first missionary journey are recorded in...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:1 The Witness in Cyprus and Southern Galatia. Chapters Acts 13:1 and Acts 14:1 re
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:4. SELEUCIA.—“Civitas potens, sæpta muris neque in barbarum corrupta sed conditoris Seleucia retinens” (Tac, _An._, vi. 42). The port of Antioch, three miles west of the cit...
EXPOSITION ACTS 13:1 _At Antioch., in the Church that was there _for _in the Church that was at Antioch, _A.V.; _prophets, _etc., for _certain prophets, _etc., A.V. and T.R.; _Barnabas, _etc., for _a...
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,...
1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 John 4:1; 1 Kings 22:22; 2 Corinthians 11:13;...
Sorcerer [μ α γ ο ν]. That the man was an impostor is told us in the next word, but not in this term. It is the word used of the wise men who came to the Savior's cradle. See Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:7;...
Paphos was on the western, Salamis on the eastern part of the island....