使徒行伝 18:4-5 JC

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:1-22

The Expansion Of The Word In Cyprus and Asia Minor, With Satan’s Counterattack Being Defeated at an Assembly In Jerusalem, Which is Then Followed By Further Ministry (13:1-18:22). Jerusalem having forfeited its Messiah and its right to evangelise the world, the torch now passes to Antioch. For in his presentation of the forward flow of ‘the word’ Luke now had to find the next great forwards movement and he found it at Syrian Antioch. From there at the instigation of the Holy Spirit (the Holy... read more

Peter Pett

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 18:4

‘And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.’ But however he was feeling, every Sabbath day he went to the synagogue, and ‘entered into dialogue’ with both Jews and God-fearers, ‘persuading both Jews and Greeks’. While not holding back we note how he is limiting his ministry to the original pattern. There was probably quite sufficient ‘material’ to work on in the synagogue. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary 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.’ The arrival of Silas and Timothy from Macedonia, no doubt at his request, must have encouraged him, especially as they brought from Thessalonica encouraging news about the progress of the Christians there (see 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10), although he also learned of their problems (1 Thessalonians 2:3-6; 1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 1 Thessalonians 5:11). It was... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:1-11

Acts 18:1-1 Kings : . Paul at Corinth.— Corinth (p. 832 ), the seat of the Roman proconsul, was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and luxury, and had a very mixed population, as the Corinthian epistles show us, of rich people and poor, of tradesmen and would-be philosophers. Acts 18:2 f. The edict of Claudius (Suet. Claudius, 25 ) is to be placed in his 9 th year, A.D. 49 or 50 . We shall see in connexion... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:4

He reasoned in the synagogue; or argued and disputed, giving his reasons out of Scripture, and answering their objections. And persuaded the Jews; not only using cogent arguments, but, as some understand the verb, such as did prevail upon them. And the Greeks; not such as were of the Jewish race, and after the dispersion used the Scripture in the Greek tongue; but such as were Gentile Greeks, Greeks by descent. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:5

Were come from Macedonia; according as was ordered by him, Acts 17:14,Acts 17:15. Pressed in the spirit; more than ordinarily affected, the Spirit of God influencing his spirit, so that he felt an anguish or pain at the heart, as 2 Corinthians 2:4; such was his grief for the contumacy of the Jews, so great was his desire that they might be saved. Jesus was Christ: 1. The Christ, or anointed, that excelled all other Christs or anointed ones, being anointed with oil above measure. 2. The Christ... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 18:1-4

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 18:1. Paul.—Omitted in the best texts. How long the Apostle stayed in Athens—Weiseler suggests fourteen days; Ramsay, three or four weeks—and how he came to Corinth, whether by land or sea, cannot be determined.Acts 18:2. Aquila born in Pontus.—Or, a man of Pontus by race. Though Pontius Aquila was a noble Roman name (compare Pontius Pilate), there is no ground for supposing that Luke has here fallen into a mistake. Ramsay suggests that Aquila may have been a freedman,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 18:5-11

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 18:5. Pressed in spirit.—According to the oldest authorities this should be was held together by the word, συνείχετο τῷ λόγῳ—i.e., either earnestly occupied with the business of preaching (Bengel, Holtzmann, and others), or wholly seized upon and constrained by the word within him (R.V.).Acts 18:6. Your blood be upon your own heads.—Compare 2 Samuel 1:16; 1 Kings 2:33; Ezekiel 3:18; Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 33:4; Ezekiel 33:6; Ezekiel 33:8.Acts 18:7. Justus.—The oldest MSS.... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 18:5

pressed Or, constrained by the Word. Cf. 2 Corinthians 5:14. read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:1-22

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:1-11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:5

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 18:1-4

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 18:5-11

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 18:5

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