Acts 19:1, Acts 19:17, Acts 19:26, Acts 19:35 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 19:1-20

The advance. The founding of a Church at Ephesus, the capital city of Proconsular Asia—a great center of Greek and Asiatic life, civil, religious, and commercial, the seat of the famous temple of Artemis, the place of concourse of all Ionia for its celebrated games—is one of those great epochs in the history of Christianity which arrest the attention and demand the consideration of the Christian reader. Not above two years (if so much) had elapsed since the Holy Ghost had expressly... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 19:1

While Apollos was at Corinth - It is probable that he remained there a considerable time.Paul, having passed through the upper coasts - The upper, or more elevated regions of Asia Minor. The writer refers here particularly to the provinces of Phrygia and Galatia, Acts 18:23. These regions were called upper, because they were situated on the high table-land in the interior of Asia Minor, while Ephesus was in the low maritime regions, and called the low country.Came to Ephesus - Agreeably to his... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 19:1

Acts 19:1. While Apollos was at Corinth Preaching with considerable success, Acts 18:27-28; Paul, having passed through the upper coasts Of the Lesser Asia, namely, Galatia and Phrygia; came to Ephesus According to his promise, Acts 18:19; Acts 18:21, with a purpose of making some stay there. Ephesus, at this time, was the metropolis of the province of Asia, and an exceedingly populous city. For, not to speak of its native inhabitants, who were very numerous, a great concourse of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 19:1-7

18:23-21:16 BACK TO ASIA MINOR AND EUROPE (THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY)Through Galatia to Ephesus (18:23-19:7)On his third great journey to the west, Paul set out by visiting the churches of Galatia once again. This was the fourth time he had visited these churches and he had also written them a letter (23; cf. 13:14,51; 14:21; 16:2-6).In the meantime a learned Jew named Apollos had come to Ephesus from Alexandria in Egypt. Like many of the Jewish teachers in Alexandria, he had a detailed... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 19:1

while . . . was . Literally in (Greek. en) the being Apollos. at = in. Greek. en. App-104 . Corinth . All the notices of Apollos are connected with Corinth, except Titus 3:13 , when he was apparently in Crete, or expected to pass through it. upper . Greek. anoterikos. Only here. coasts = parts, i.e. the highland district, at the back of the Western Taurus range. Paul's route was probably through Derbe, Lystra, Iconium, the Phrygian lake district, and the Lydian part of the Province of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 19:1

Here is presented by Luke the story of certain Christians who needed re-baptism (Acts 19:1-7), a record of Paul's mighty successes in Ephesus (Acts 19:8-13), the account of the exorcists who were exorcised (Acts 19:14-20), a summary of Paul's further work in Asia (Acts 19:21-22), and a full account of the uproar created by Demetrius and the shrine-makers (Acts 19:23-41).CHRISTIANS WHO NEEDED TO BE RE-BAPTIZEDAnd it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 19:1

Acts 19:1. Paul—came to Ephesus— Ephesus was the metropolis and principal mart not only of Ionia, but even of all the proconsular Asia, situated on the river Cayster, celebrated for its swans, on the side of a hill, which toward the west has the prospect of a lovely plain, watered and beautified with the pleasant circles of the river, turning and winding in so many curious mazes, that some travellers have mistaken it for the Meander; and this the rather, because the Turks have given it the name... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 19:1

1-3. while Apollos was at Corinth—where his ministry was so powerful that a formidable party in the Church of that city gloried in his type of preaching in preference to Paul's (1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:4), no doubt from the marked infusion of Greek philosophic culture which distinguished it, and which the apostle studiously avoided (1 Corinthians 3:4- :). Paul having passed through the upper coasts—"parts," the interior of Asia Minor, which, with reference to the seacoast, was... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 19:1-2

Two roads led into Ephesus from the east, and Paul travelled the northern, more direct route (cf. Acts 18:23). [Note: Cf. Ramsay, St. Paul . . ., p. 265.] Ephesus, like Athens, had reached its heyday and was in decline when Paul visited it. Its claim to fame was twofold. Its location on the west coast of Asia Minor near the mouth of the Cayster River made it an important commercial center. As commerce declined due to the silting up of the port at Ephesus, its religious influence continued to... read more