Acts 18:3 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 18:3

Trade for craft, A.V.; they wrought for (he) wrought, A.V. and T.R.; trade for occupation, A.V. ( τέχνῃ ). Of the same trade ; ὁμότεχνον . This word occurs here only in the New Testament, but is of frequent use in Hippocrates, Dioscorides, and Galen (Hobart, as before). Tent-makers ; σκηνοποιοί , which is paraphrased by σκηοῤῥάφοι , tent-stitchers or tailors, by Chrysostom and Theodoret. Hug and others erroneously interpret it "makers of tent-cloth," from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 18:3-4

Tent-making a sermon. Paul has left the mockers, the procrastinators, and the believers, each to reap the fruits he has sown, and, departing from Athens, has reached Corinth. And here we find him the center of so natural a touch of history, that it speaks its own fidelity. No "cunningly devised" history would have interpolated such an incident as this before us. Nothing but the truth of history could find its niche here. So distinctly as it is recorded, it must be charged with some useful... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 18:3

The same craft - Of the same trade or occupation.And wrought - And worked at that occupation. Why he did it the historian does not affirm; but it seems pretty evident that it was because he had no other means of maintenance. He also labored for his own support in Ephesus Acts 20:34 and at Thessalonica, 2 Thessalonians 3:9-10. The apostle was not ashamed of honest industry for a livelihood; nor did he deem it any disparagement that a minister of the gospel should labor with his own hands.For by... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 18:2-3

Acts 18:2-3. And found a certain Jew Afterward converted to the faith of Christ, (Acts 18:26,) doubtless by the instrumentality of Paul; born in Pontus A province of the Lesser Asia, not far from Galatia and Cappadocia; lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla Who also became an eminent Christian; because that Claudius The Roman emperor; had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome All who were Jews by birth; whether they were Jews or Christians by religion, the Romans were too... read more

Donald C. Fleming

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 18:3

of the same craft . Greek. homotechnos. Only here. A word applied by physicians to one another. The medical profession was called the healing art (Greek. techne) . abode = was abiding. See Acts 16:15 . wrought = was working. Greek. ergazomai. by their occupation = as to their craft. Greek. techne. tentmakers . Greek. skenopoios. Only here. They wove the black cloth of goat's or camel's hair of which tents were made. Every Jewish boy was taught some handicraft. Compare 1 Corinthians... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:3

Acts 18:3. And because he was of the same craft,— Aquila and Priscilla seem to have had a house at Corinth; for they had settled so far in that city, as to enter upon their usual employment, which was to make tents and pavilions of linen or of skins; such as in those hot countries they sometimes lived in during the summer season; such as travellers made use of when they had no houses or caravanseras to lodge in; and such as soldiers lodged in when encamped in the field. This was not only a... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 18:3

3. tentmakers—manufacturers, probably, of those hair-cloth tents supplied by the goats of the apostle's native province, and hence, as sold in the markets of the Levant, called cilicium. Every Jewish youth, whatever the pecuniary circumstances of his parents, was taught some trade (see on :-), and Paul made it a point of conscience to work at that which he had probably been bred to, partly that he might not be burdensome to the churches, and partly that his motives as a minister of Christ... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 18:1-4

Paul’s arrival in Corinth 18:1-4 read more