使徒の働き 16:1, 使徒の働き 16:3 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 16:1-5

Apostolic devotion owned. The opening two little words of the fifth verse must not be neglected. The fifth verse does not merely summarize the incidents narrated in the preceding four verses. It connects them as effects with their just causes, or with that which was in part, and as matter of fact, their just cause. Observe, then, that— I. THE LOVE OF APOSTOLIC HEARTS ESTABLISHES FAITH IN THE HEARTS OF OTHERS AND INCREASES THE SPREAD OF IT . II. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 16:1-8

Paul and Timothy. In the intercourse of the great apostle with Timothy, and the history of the latter, we have an interesting episode. I. THE YOUNG DISCIPLE . His case shows: 1. The blessing of a pious mother. The mother's love gives force to all her lessons, sanctity to the curliest of life's recollections. "Knowing of whom thou hast learned them." 2. The blessing of Christian society. He enjoyed the testimony of the brethren in Lystra and Iconium. Not only the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 16:1

Then came he - That is, Paul in company with Silas. Luke does not give us the history of Barnabas, but confines his narrative to the journey of Paul.To Derbe and Lystra - See the notes on Acts 14:6.And behold, a certain disciple named Timotheus - It was to this disciple that Paul afterward addressed the two epistles which bear his name. It is evident that he was a native of one of these places, but whether of Derbe or Lystra it is impossible to determine.The son of a certain woman ... - Her... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 16:1-3

Acts 16:1-3. Then When he had passed through the regions of Syria and Cilicia; came he to Derbe and Lystra At which places he had preached the gospel in his former progress. And a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus As Paul ( 2Ti 3:10-11 ) speaks of Timothy as having been a witness of his sufferings at Lystra, and we read nothing of any remarkable sufferings which he endured in this his second progress through these parts, it is probable that Timothy was converted by him in his... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 16:1-10

Across Asia Minor to Troas (16:1-10)Upon arriving in Lystra, Paul and Silas were joined by Timothy, a young man whom the elders of the Galatian churches considered suited to the task ahead (1 Timothy 1:18; 1 Timothy 4:14). Timothy was half-Jewish, and Paul thought it wise that he be circumcised, apparently hoping that this would gain acceptance for Timothy with the Jewish population wherever the missionaries went. The circumcision of Timothy was for practical, not religious, purposes, in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 16:1

came . . . to = arrived at. Greek. katantao. Occurs nine times in Acts, four times in Paul's epistles. Always accompanied by eis, except Acts 20:15 . named = by name. Timotheus . From this time closely associated with Paul in the ministry (Romans 16:21 ). He was probably one of his converts at his previous visit (Acts 14:7 ). Compare my own son in the faith ( 1Ti 1:2 , 1 Timothy 1:18 ; 2 Timothy 1:2 ). In six of Paul's epistles Timothy is joined with him in the opening salutation. His... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 16:1

This chapter has the continuation of the second missionary tour, relating the revisiting of Lystra and Derbe (Acts 16:1-5), the Macedonian call (Acts 16:6-10), the conversion of Lydia and others in Philippi (Acts 16:11-15), the healing of the demoniac girl (Acts 16:16-18), beating and imprisonment of Paul and Silas (Acts 16:19-24), earthquake and conversion of the jailer (Acts 16:25-33), and the concluding of their efforts in Philippi, in which Paul and Silas receive the apology of the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 16:1

Acts 16:1. A certain disciple—named Timotheus— See the passages in the margin, and the preface to the first epistle to Timothy. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 16:1

1-5. Then came he to Derbe and Lystra; and, behold, a certain disciple was there—that is, at Lystra (not Derbe, as some conclude from :-). named Timotheus—(See on Acts 16:1). As Paul styles him "his own son in the faith" (Acts 16:1- :), he must have been gained to Christ at the apostle's first visit; and as Paul says he "had fully known his persecutions which came on him at Lystra" (2 Timothy 3:10; 2 Timothy 3:11), he may have been in that group of disciples that surrounded the apparently... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 16:1

Paul and Silas probably crossed the Taurus Mountains at a pass called the Cilician Gates (modern Gülek Bogaz). Alexander the Great had marched east through this pass to conquer the vast Persian Empire four centuries earlier. [Note: Blaiklock, p. 120.] This route would have led them into the kingdom of Antiochus that was west of Cilicia, to the south of Galatia, and to the east of Pamphylia. They proceeded on into Lycaonian Galatia, to Derbe, and then to Lystra.At Lystra a young believer named... read more