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The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 19:18-20

Practical evidence of genuine repentance. The evidence which" many of them that believed" now came and gave, of the vitality of their faith and the reality of their repentance, was conclusive. And the very thought of it is refreshing as we read it. Here follow four grand evidences of a genuine "faith in Jesus" and "repentance from dead works." I. TO COME VOLUNTARILY AND CONFESS . II. TO DISCLOSE , AND TO DISCLOSE VOLUNTARILY , UNDER NO PRESSURE OF ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 19:19

And not a few for many … also, A.V.; that practice d for which used A.V.; in the sight of all for before all men, A.V. That practiced curious arts ( τῶν τὰ περίεργα πραξάντων ) . The adjective περίεργος applied to persons means "a busybody" ( 1 Timothy 5:13 ), one who does what it is not his business to do, and pries into matters with which he has no concern; applied to things, it means that which it is not anybody's business to attend to, that which is vain and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 19:19

Curious arts - Arts or practices requiring skill, address, cunning. The word used here (περίεργα perierga) denotes properly “those things that require care or skill,” and was thus applied to the arts of “magic, jugglery, and sleight of hand” that were practiced so extensively in Eastern countries. That such arts were practiced at Ephesus is well known. The Ephesian letters, by which incantations and charms were supposed to be produced, were much celebrated. They seem to have consisted of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 19:17-20

Acts 19:17-20. And this Acknowledgment of the divine authority of Jesus and Paul, made in the absence of both; or this fact, concerning the possessed man, thus prevailing against the sons of Sceva; was known to all the Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus And became, doubtless, the common subject of conversation; and fear fell on them all For in this instance they saw a striking proof of the malice of the devil, whom they served, and of the power of Christ, whom they opposed; and both... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 19:8-32

Ephesus and the surrounding region (19:8-22)After Paul had preached for three months in the synagogue, the Jews forced him out, so he went and taught in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. He carried on his teaching work there for the next two years, during which the disciples took the message into the surrounding countryside (8-10). This activity seems to have resulted in churches being founded, without Paul’s help, in the towns of Colossae, Hierapolis and Laodicea (Colossians 2:1; Colossians 4:13),... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 19:19

used = practised. Greek. prasso. curious arts . Greek. periergos. Only here and 1 Timothy 5:13 . The word means "going beyond that which is legitimate". The kindred verb only in 2 Thessalonians 3:11 . arts = things. brought . . . together = having collected. books . These were either books on magic, or strips of parchment or papyrus, with charms written on them. Many of these have been discovered. The great magical Papyrus referred to above (Acts 19:13 ) contains about 3,000 lines. and... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 19:19

And not a few of them that practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.It is a shame that in our own times all kinds of spiritualists, fortune-tellers, palm-readers, and voodoo specialists are operating in the same manner as those ancient sinners. Ever since this event at Ephesus, Satan and his advocates have been screaming about the "book burners"; but it surely must be... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 19:18-20

Acts 19:18-20. And many that believed came, &c.— Exorcisms and incantations had been very much practised at Ephesus: the Gentiles there imagined that Diana, or the moon, presided over their incantations; but upon the disaster which befel these exorcists, many of them who had lately embraced the Christian religion came to the apostle, acknowledging that they also had formerly been guilty of sorcery and exorcisms, and confessed that they now looked upon such things as highly criminal. Nay,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 19:19

19. Many of them . . . which used curious arts—The word signifies things "overdone"; significantly applied to arts in which laborious but senseless incantations are practiced. brought their books—containing the mystic formularies. and burned them before all—The tense, here used graphically, expresses progress and continuance of the conflagration. counted the price . . . and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver—about £2000 (presuming it to be the drachma, the current coin of the Levant, of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 19:1-20

Paul’s ministry in Ephesus 19:1-20Luke’s account of Paul’s third missionary journey is essentially a record of Paul’s ministry in Ephesus, the city he probably tried to reach at the beginning of his second journey (cf. Acts 16:6). read more