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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:1-28

The Mission to Europe (16:6-19:20). Paul’s plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he was first hindered from going one way, and then another. But unknown to him it was to be the commencement of the mission to Europe. Why then does Luke emphasise these negative responses? It was in order to underline that when the move to go forward did come it was decisively under God’s direction. He was saying, ‘the Spirit bade him go’. We need not... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:14-15

‘But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villainy, O you Jews, reason would that I should bear with you, but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.” ’ Gallio was a discerning and wise ruler and having looked over their case he immediately came to the conclusion that both sides were simply disagreeing about the interpretation... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:12-17

Acts 18:12-Esther : . Gallio and Paul.— Gallio’ s proconsulship is fixed by an inscription at Delphi which came to light in 1905 ; and gives an absolute date in Pauline chronology (p. 655 ). He had not been proconsul when Paul came to Corinth ( Acts 18:12); his arrival in Achaia is found to have been after midsummer (A.D. 51 ), while Paul came there early in 50 . Gallio was the brother of the philosopher Seneca, who describes him as “ sweet” ( dulcis) , and was a man of the highest culture.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:14

To open his mouth; to make his apology, and to speak in his own defence. A matter of wrong; as murder, theft, or any such injury, which judges do usually determine of. Reason would that I should bear with you; I would endure any trouble to hear and understand it, I should think it my duty to suffer you to say as much as you would in your case. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 18:12-17

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 18:12. Gallio.—Gallio became proconsul towards the end of Claudius’s reign, about A.D. 53. His character, as depicted by ancient writers, corresponded with that revealed in Luke’s narrative. “He was the very flower of pagan courtesy and pagan culture—a Roman with all a Roman’s dignity and seriousness, and yet with all the grace and versatility of a polished Greek” (Farrar). Eusebius asserts that he committed suicide towards the end of Nero’s reign, before the death of his... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 18:1-28

Let's turn now to the eighteenth chapter of Acts as we continue our study through the Bible. At the end of the study last week, the end of chapter seventeen, we found Paul speaking to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers there on Mars Hills proclaiming to them the glory and the marvels of the unknown God whom they worshipped ignorantly. And we found that again Paul's message left them with sort of divided feelings, some believing, and some remaining with Paul, and others sort of scoffing and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 18:1-28

Acts 18:2 . Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome. Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ninth year of Claudius, and in the year of the Lord 49. The inference we draw is, that the jews of Rome were playing the same game with the christians that had long been played in Jerusalem; and by consequence, had got themselves, and it is probable, all the christians of Hebrew extraction, banished... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 18:1-17

Acts 18:1-17After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.Paul at CorinthPaul entered, not the grand, classical Corinth, but a sort of afterglow Corinth. The old city had been destroyed by Consul Mummius 146 B.C. It was burned to the ground. The streets ran with molten metal from the innumerable statues and gothic buildings; the fused mass continued to be collected for years afterwards, and fetched a good price in the open market as “Corinthian brass”; it was exported in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 18:1-28

Acts 18:1-28; Acts 19:1-7And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches.Paul as a model for all gospel ministersHe recognises the importance of--I. Establishing new converts in the faith. In this visit he does not break new ground, but goes over the old scenes. Who that remembers the treatment which he met with at Lystra can fail to admire his magnanimity and dauntless heroism in entering this place again? Note in relation to his confirmatory work--1. The method (Acts 16:4). He... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 18:14

14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: Ver. 14. Or wicked lewdness ] The Greek word, ραδιουργημα , doth elegantly set forth the disposition of a lewd man; which is to be easily drawn to any wicked way. If the devil do but hold up his finger, he may have him at his beck and obedience; he is the devil’s clay and wax, and may be wrought to anything with a... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:1-28

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:14-15

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:12-17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:14

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 18:12-17

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 18:1-28

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 18:1-28

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 18:1-17

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 18:1-28

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 18:14

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