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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 8:26-39

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:36

‘And as they went on the way, they came to a certain water, and the eunuch says, “Look, here is water. What hinders me from being baptised?’ The eunuch accepts Philip’s explanation, given by the power of the Spirit, as convincing and seeing an abundant spring of water with its surrounding pond he asks why, in that case, he might not baptised. Philip’s explanation would have included reference to baptism. A later copier, seized with the idea of the need at baptism for a confession of faith, or... 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 8:36

A certain water; this water is supposed to be a fountain in a town called Bethsora, or a river called Eleutherus, which in that road must needs be passed over; it being otherwise very dry, and water very scarce there. What doth hinder me to be baptized? Although it was not expressly mentioned, Philip had informed this eunuch concerning baptism, its nature and use, which made him express such desire after it; which else he had not done. 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

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:30-39

Acts 8:30-39And Philip ran … and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? Understanding the Word1. Notice the preliminary fact that the Scriptures challenge investigation. “Let us reason together,” says Isaiah. The Bible is a definite and positive force. You can no more eliminate it from the world’s life than you can take oxygen from its atmosphere, or Columbus and Constantine from history. The life and words of Jesus invite, demand intelligent study.2. These Scriptures are a growth. The... read more

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

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:36

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 8:36

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

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:30-39

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