(7) And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
(7) God punishes his Church when he punishes the wicked, in his scourges and plagues which he sends upon the earth, in such a way that he nonetheless conveniently provides for it.
Verse Acts 11:27. _CAME PROPHETS FROM JERUSALEM_] Though the term _prophet_ is used in the New Testament simply to signify a _teacher_, (Genesis 20:7, Genesis 20:7, where the subject is largely e...
AND IN THESE DAYS - While Barnabas and Saul were at Antioch. CAME PROPHETS - The word “prophet” denotes properly “one who foretells future events.” See the notes on Matthew 7:15. It is sometimes used...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Peter's Defense in Jerusalem (Acts 11:1)._ 2. The Beginning of the Church in Antioch (Acts 11:19). 3. Barnabas sent to Antioch (Acts 11:22). 4. The Prophecy of Agabus ...
PROPHECY OF AGABUS. MISSION TO JERUSALEM OF BARNABAS AND SAUL. PROPHETS FROM JERUSALEM (_cf. Acts 15:32_ *). Vague dating, in those days. The story fixes its own date. Agabus appears again in Acts 21:...
PETER ON HIS DEFENCE (Acts 11:1-10)...
In these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. One of them called Agabus stood up and, through the Holy Spirit, gave a sign that a great famine was to come upon the whole land. This happe...
CAME. came down. PROPHETS. App-189....
Agabus at Antioch foretells a famine, and in consequence the Church at Antioch sends relief to Jerusalem 27. _And in these days_ i.e. while the Church at Antioch was being increased with a great mult...
AGABUS AT ANTIOCH FORETELLS A FAMINE, AND IN CONSEQUENCE THE CHURCH AT ANTIOCH SENDS RELIEF TO JERUSALEM...
ἘΝ ΤΑΎΤΑΙΣ ΔῈ ΤΑΙ͂Σ ἩΜΈΡΑΙΣ, _and in those days_, i.e. during the year when Barnabas and Saul were labouring in Antioch, and the Church increasing there rapidly in consequence. ΠΡΟΦΗ͂ΤΑΙ, _prophets_....
_BARNABAS AND SAUL WERE SENT TO JERUSALEM -- ACTS 11:27-30:_ In that year that Saul and Barnabas were at Antioch some Christian prophets came from Jerusalem. One of them named Agabus, predicted, by th...
ΚΑΤΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2718) нисходить....
THE EARLY LABORS OF BARNABAS AND SAUL. Acts 11:22, Acts 12:25 1. IN JERUSALEM. Acts 11:22. Acts 11:22 And the report concerni
27-30. We have dwelt long upon the new name given in Antioch; we must now consider other interesting events which occurred there about the close of the year in which Barnabas and Saul labored there to...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. AND IN THESE DAYS CAME PROPHETS - that is, 'inspired teachers, or persons speaking with supernatural authority;' a class with which we s...
26 The name "Christian" is Latin in its termination, so seems to have been given by the Romans. It is mentioned only twice more (Act_26:28; 1Pe_4:16), and was a term of contempt. It is never used by t...
The Church of Antioch succours the Church of Jerusalem in time of famine. 27. Friendly-relations clearly prevailed between Jerusalem and Antioch, the former Church sending accredited prophets and teac...
THE FIRST GENTILE CHURCH 1-18. The baptism of Cornelius discussed and approved at Jerusalem. Those Christians who maintained the need of observing the Ceremonial Law did not attack the baptism itself...
THE CHURCH IN ANTIOCH, 35-47 A.D. (ACTS 11:19 TO ACTS 13:3) 19-26. Extension of the Church to Antioch. Admission of Gentile members. Antioch in N. Syria ranked next to Alexandria, as the third city in...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 11 PETER’S REPORT TO THE *CHURCH IN *JERUSALEM, 11:1-18 V1 The *apostles and the *believers in *Judea heard that the *Gentiles also had receive...
CAME PROPHETS FROM JERUSALEM. — The mission thus described was obviously a further sanction given by the Church at Jerusalem to the work that Saul and Barnabas were carrying on at Antioch. If we adopt...
Antioch sends relief to Jerusalem. ἐν ταύταις δὲ ταῖς ἡ., _cf._ Acts 1:15; Acts 6:1. ταύταις emphatic, by its position and also by its significance, days full of importance for Barnabas and Saul, who...
KNITTING TOGETHER THE CHURCH Acts 11:19-30 The development of God's plan is still further disclosed in the events recorded in this section, which describe the same phenomenon of Gentile conversion, b...
It is very interesting to note how slowly the prejudices of the Hebrew Christians gave way, and yet how amenable they were to the evidences as they appeared. The apostles and the brethren at Jerusalem...
The Gentiles Help Starving Christians in Judea Certain prophets, or men who had received a miraculous gift which allowed them to speak for God, came from Jerusalem to Antioch. Agabus, one of that numb...
GENTILE PHILANTHROPY 27-30. The great drought during the reign of the Emperor Claudius was already on them. The Jerusalem saints had found it necessary to sell their estates in order to support that w...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. (28) And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: w...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
27.Luke commendeth in this place the faith of the men of Antioch by the fruit, because they endeavored to relieve the poverty of that church, from whence they received the gospel, with their abundance...
Acts 11:19 begins the narration of the new order of things by which the ministry of Paul is distinguished. Among those who were scattered abroad on the occasion of Stephen's death, and who went as far...
AND IN THESE DAYS CAME PROPHETS FROM JERUSALEM TO ANTIOCH., That is, some time in that year that Saul and Barnabas were at Antioch, there came from Jerusalem thither some Christian prophets; for such...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. Ver. 27. _From Jerusalem unto Antioch_] The Church whereof was now grown so famous by the pious labours of Paul and Barnabas, that many ho...
_In these days_ While Barnabas and Saul were at Antioch; _came prophets_ thither _from Jerusalem_ Persons who were divinely inspired to foretel future events. _And there stood up_ In the congregation;...
PROPHETS; a class of inspired teachers in the primitive church. 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 14:1-40; EPHESIANS 4:11-12. They unfolded the doctrines of the gospel under the
AND IN THESE DAYS CAME PROPHETS ROM JERUSALEM UNTO ANTIOCH....
Barnabas and Saul sent on a charitable mission:...
News of Peter's carrying the gospel to Gentiles had preceded him to Jerusalem. When he arrived there, therefore, he was faced by those who were specially zealous of the law, and who spoke accusingly o...
AND IN THESE DAYS PROPHETS CAME FROM JERUSALEM TO ANTIOCH. 1. While Saul was at Antioch, prophets came from Jerusalem. 2. They came with a message and warning....
:!7 17 IF THEREFORE GOD GAVE THEM THE SAME GIFT AS _HE GAVE_ US WHEN WE BELIEVED ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO WAS I THAT I COULD WITHSTAND GOD? " 1. What was similar to Pentecost? 1. Cornelius was...
"Now in these days there came down prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch"Now in these days" While Barnabas and Saul were working with the congregation in Antioch. "There came down" Even though Antioch...
25-30 Hitherto the followers of Christ were called disciples, that is, learners, scholars; but from that time they were called Christians. The proper meaning of this name is, a follower of Christ; it...
These here meant were enabled to foretell things to come; a gift which God did furnish some of his church with on such an extraordinary occasion, EPHESIANS 4:11, whereby they did beforehand signify fu...
27-30. We have dwelt long upon the new name given in Antioch; we must now consider other interesting events which occurred there about the close of the year in which Barnabas and Saul labored there to...
Acts 11:27 And G1161 in G1722 these G5025 days G2250 prophets G4396 came G2718 (G5627) from G575 Jerusalem...
GOD'S PEOPLE REACH OUT IN LOVE TO MEET EACH OTHER'S NEEDS (11:27-30). This is in a way similar to the summaries that had followed the early evangelism, demonstrating the spirituality and genuineness o...
‘Now in these days there came down prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch.' It began when prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch, presumably because they had heard of the work that was going on and...
_Charitable Mission of Barnabas and Saul from Antioch to Jerusalem,_ 27-30. Acts 11:27. IN THESE DAYS. This indication of date is general and vague; but, no doubt, the occurrence here related took pl...
PROPHETS (προφητα). Christian prophets these were (cf. Acts 13:1) who came from Jerusalem (the headquarters, Acts 8:15). Judas and Silas are called prophets (Acts 14:4;...
CONTENTS: Peter vindicates his ministry to the Gentiles. Name «Christians» first applied at Antioch. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Spirit, Peter, angel, John, Stephen, Barnabas, Saul, Agabus, Caesar. CONCLUSIO...
Acts 11:2. _They of the circumcision contended with him._ Those who were zealous of the law, apprehending that Christ and his grace had only been promised and confined to themselves, the call and conv...
ABOUT THAT TIME SOME PROPHETS. See note on Acts 2:17. NAMED AGABUS. We meet him again in Acts 21:10. A GREAT FAMINE. _Eusebius_ writes: "In his reign there was a famine that prevailed over the whole w...
_And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch._ FRUIT FROM THE GENTILES 1. The relation between the old Church at Jerusalem and the new at Antioch was that which St. Paul, writing und...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 11:27 Paul and Barnabas represented the Antioch church by bringing its offering to the Jerusalem church in a time of need (see chart). Paul says in Gal
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 11:19. UPON THE PERSECUTION.—Or, _tribulation,_ ἀπὸ πῆς θλίψεως: better, _from_ (as an effect of) _the persecution,_ THAT AROSE ABOUT STEPHEN, ἐπὶ Στεφάνῳ—_i.e., on account of,...
EXPOSITION ACTS 11:1 _Now_ for _and_, A.V.; _the_ _brethren _for brethren, A.V.; _also had_ for _had also_, A.V, We can imagine how rapidly the news of the great revolution would travel to the metrop...
And the apostles and brethren that were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. And when Peter was come back to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision had a fight wi...
1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 14:32; Acts 13:1; Acts 15:32;...
Prophets. See on Luke 7:26....
Observe here, 1. That the wisdom of God, at the first planting of the Christian church, did confer upon some of its members extraordinary gifts; as the gift of tongues, the gift of miracles, the gift...