使徒行伝 18:4-5 JC

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 18:1-4

Across to Corinth (18:1-4)Corinth was a strategic commercial centre situated on a well used Roman road. It was also an important port, and like many ports it was full of all sorts of vice. Its reputation was so bad that people referred to a person of loose morals as one who ‘behaved like a Corinthian’. Yet Paul planted a church there and, not surprisingly, it became one of the most colourful and unorthodox churches of all.As he often did on his travels, Paul earned his living in Corinth by... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 18:5-17

Eighteen months in Corinth (18:5-17)Meanwhile in Corinth, Paul was having the usual trouble with the Jews. They forced him out of the synagogue, so he went and preached in the house of Titius Justus, a Gentile God-fearer who lived next door (5-7). Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, himself believed (8; cf. 1 Corinthians 1:14), and possibly the new ruler of the synagogue, Sosthenes, later believed also (see v. 17; cf. 1 Corinthians 1:1).In spite of the constant opposition, Paul kept preaching,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 18:4

reasoned . Greek. dialegomai. See Acts 17:2 , Acts 17:17 . synagogue . App-120 . In the museum at Corinth is a fragment of a stone with the inscription, ( suna ) goge hebr ( aion ) = synagogue of the Hebrews. The letters in brackets are missing. Its date is said to be between 100 B.C. and A.D. 200. every sabbath = sabbath by sabbath. Compare Acts 15:21 . persuaded = was persuading, or sought to persuade. App-150 . the . Omit. Greeks . Greek. Hellen. See Acts 14:1 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 18:5

And = Now. were come = came down. was pressed, &c . Read, was engrossed with or by (Greek. en) the word, i.e. his testimony. spirit . All thetexts read "word" (Greek. logos . App-121 .10). and testified = earnestly testifying. Greek. diamarturomai. See note on Acts 2:40 . Jesus . App-98 . was = is. Christ = the Messiah. App-98 . Compare 1 Corinthians 1:23 . This was to the Jews a horrible "scandal". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 18:4

And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.Paul's turning to the Gentiles after rejection in the synagogues should be understood in the local sense; for he always began with the Jews wherever he went. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 18:5

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.About this time, probably as soon as Silas and Timothy had brought Paul word of the churches in Macedonia, Paul wrote 1Thessalonians. "The news Timothy brought to St. Paul caused him to write those beloved converts ... which is the first of his epistles to be preserved to us."[14] (Note: Howson accepted the later date of 55 or 56 A.D. for Galatians; but this... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:4

Acts 18:4. And he reasoned, &c.— Philo informs us, that many Jews inhabited Corinth, and the chief and best parts of Peloponnesus. And St. Luke in this place, as well as St. Paul in his two epistles to the Corinthians, has given plain intimation that there were several Jews in that city; for they had a synagogue there, into which the apostle went, as usual, every sabbath-day, and there he discoursed concerning the Christian doctrine, and laboured to convince— επειθε — both the Jews and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:5

Acts 18:5. And when Silas and Timotheus were come, &c.— St. Paul was at Corinth some time before his two assistants came up to him, and so long he frequented the synagogue; but when Timothy was come from Thessalonica, and Silas from Berea, and they had told him what success they had met with in watering the gospel which he had planted in Macedonia, he was pressed in the spirit, and grieved that he had hitherto preached to the Jews in Corinth with so little success; for which reason he... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 18:4

4. the Greeks—that is, Gentile proselytes; for to the heathen, as usual, he only turned when rejected by the Jews (Acts 18:6). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 18:5

5, 6. And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia—that is, from Thessalonica, whither Silas had probably accompanied Timothy when sent back from Athens (see on Acts 18:1). Paul was pressed in the spirit—rather (according to what is certainly the true reading) "was pressed with the word"; expressing not only his zeal and assiduity in preaching it, but some inward pressure which at this time he experienced in the work (to convey which more clearly was probably the origin of the common... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 18:1-4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 18:5-17

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 18:4

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 18:5

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 18:4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 18:5

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:5

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 18:4

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 18:5

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