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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:1-40

The Expansion of The Church As A Result of Persecution (8:1-12:25). How thrilled the Apostles must have been at this stage at the progress of the church. Through the first few years of the infant church they had suffered a few minor discomforts, but they had come through those triumphantly, and the church had continued to grow and grow. Jerusalem was ‘filled with their teaching’ and the work of caring for all the true people of God was now being successfully administered. And then came the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26

‘But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. The same is desert.’ The ‘angel of the Lord’ tells Philip that he must rise and go south towards ancient Gaza, a city slightly inland which, in contrast with new port of Gaza, was mainly in ruins. It was on the road from Jerusalem to Egypt. And on the way which led there, in a place where the land tended to be deserted, he would learn what he must do. The... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26-39

The Ministry of Philip To The Ethiopian Eunuch (8:26-39). Meanwhile God was now satisfied that the Samaritan church was sufficiently equipped to carry on and He calls Philip elsewhere to where there is a lonely searching soul. It was to a man, and a very important one, who had been visiting Jerusalem but was still unsatisfied. He held a high position under the queen of ‘Ethiopia’ (Nubia), and was at the minimum a God-fearer, a man who respected the Jewish Law and, without being ready to be... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26-40

Acts 8:26-Matthew : . Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch.— Philip appears again; we are not told where, but the instruction given him by the angel shows that he was not at Jerusalem; he is to go southward ( mg. “ at noon” ; not suitable for a long journey) to the Jerusalem-Gaza road. That the road was forsaken was in its favour in this instance. Arrived at the junction of the two roads, from Tyre and from Jerusalem, Philip sees a chariot; it contains an Ethiopian eunuch, the treasurer at an... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 8:26

Some speak of two Gazas, one distinguished from the other by this epithet of desert; but rather there were two ways unto one and the same Gaza, and that it was not the city but the way unto it, which is called desert; by which difference, here mentioned, the angel admonishes Philip not to go the ordinary road, but the more unusual road over the mountians, which was rarely travelled over, but was now necessary to be gone in to meet with the eunuch. God telleth our wanderings, and ordereth our... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:26-40

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 8:18. And when Simon saw.—Most likely through hearing the baptised speak with tongues. He offered them money.—From Simon’s name and proposal arose the expression “Simony” for the purchase of spiritual offices. Inde Simoniœ vocabulum (Bengel).Acts 8:19. To me also.—I.e., “as well as to you”; not “as well as to others,” “since no example of such transfer was known to him” (Hackett).Acts 8:20. Thy money perish with thee.—Lit., thy silver with thyself be for destruction.... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 8:26

angel (See Scofield " :-") . desert Contra, Acts 8:6-8. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 8:1-40

Chapter 8We are introduced now to one of the chief persecutors. A zealous young Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, whose name is Saul. And he was standing by, consenting to the death of Stephen, holding the coats of the fellows who were throwing the stones. No doubt, cheering them on. But I have no doubt, that what Stephen's death and his reaction to it had such a great effect on Paul that he never got away from it. And I believe that it was ultimately the background of Paul's conversion. For... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 8:1-40

Acts 8:1 . At that time there was a great persecution against the church. With regard to this very tremendous storm which suddenly burst on the infant church, Cardinal Baronius, in his Ecclesiastical Annals, gives us an extract from a discourse of Dorotheus, a priest of Antioch, written in the second century, who states that two thousand persons were at this time massacred in Jerusalem, and in Judea; and that their bodies were mangled, and exposed in the fields to be devoured by vultures... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:26-39

Acts 8:26-39And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go.Man versus angelWhy didn’t the angel go himself? Because this was a mission where a man was worth more than an angel. In the Lord’s plan of salvation there is a place for redeemed sinners as witnesses for Christ, to do a work that no angel could accomplish. It is not for us to say that God could have had any better plan than this. As the plan stands, the man is needed for its prosecution. The best that an angel can... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:1-40

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26-39

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26-40

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 8:26

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:26-40

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 8:26

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 8:1-40

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 8:1-40

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:26-39

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