Acts 18:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 18:5

And when Silas and Timotheus ... - They came to Paul according to the request which he had sent by the brethren who accompanied him from Thessalonica, Acts 17:15.Paul was pressed - Was urged; was borne away by an unusual impulse. It was deeply impressed on him as his duty.In spirit - In his mind; in his feelings. His love to Christ was so great, and his conviction of the truth so strong, that he labored to make known to them the truth that Jesus Was the Messiah.That Jesus was Christ - That... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 18:5-6

Acts 18:5-6. And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia Silas seems to have stayed a considerable time at Berea; but Timotheus, having come to the apostle while he was at Athens, and having been sent back by him to comfort and confirm the church at Thessalonica, now left that city to join Paul at Corinth; and in his way calling upon Silas at Berea, they travelled together to Corinth, where they found the apostle, and gave him the agreeable information that the Thessalonian... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 18:5-17

Eighteen months in Corinth (18:5-17)Meanwhile in Corinth, Paul was having the usual trouble with the Jews. They forced him out of the synagogue, so he went and preached in the house of Titius Justus, a Gentile God-fearer who lived next door (5-7). Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, himself believed (8; cf. 1 Corinthians 1:14), and possibly the new ruler of the synagogue, Sosthenes, later believed also (see v. 17; cf. 1 Corinthians 1:1).In spite of the constant opposition, Paul kept preaching,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 18:5

And = Now. were come = came down. was pressed, &c . Read, was engrossed with or by (Greek. en) the word, i.e. his testimony. spirit . All thetexts read "word" (Greek. logos . App-121 .10). and testified = earnestly testifying. Greek. diamarturomai. See note on Acts 2:40 . Jesus . App-98 . was = is. Christ = the Messiah. App-98 . Compare 1 Corinthians 1:23 . This was to the Jews a horrible "scandal". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries 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.About this time, probably as soon as Silas and Timothy had brought Paul word of the churches in Macedonia, Paul wrote 1Thessalonians. "The news Timothy brought to St. Paul caused him to write those beloved converts ... which is the first of his epistles to be preserved to us."[14] (Note: Howson accepted the later date of 55 or 56 A.D. for Galatians; but this... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 18:5

Acts 18:5. And when Silas and Timotheus were come, &c.— St. Paul was at Corinth some time before his two assistants came up to him, and so long he frequented the synagogue; but when Timothy was come from Thessalonica, and Silas from Berea, and they had told him what success they had met with in watering the gospel which he had planted in Macedonia, he was pressed in the spirit, and grieved that he had hitherto preached to the Jews in Corinth with so little success; for which reason he... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 18:5

5, 6. And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia—that is, from Thessalonica, whither Silas had probably accompanied Timothy when sent back from Athens (see on Acts 18:1). Paul was pressed in the spirit—rather (according to what is certainly the true reading) "was pressed with the word"; expressing not only his zeal and assiduity in preaching it, but some inward pressure which at this time he experienced in the work (to convey which more clearly was probably the origin of the common... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 18:1-17

Ministry in Corinth 18:1-17Silas and Timothy had evidently rejoined Paul in Athens (1 Thessalonians 3:1). Before leaving Athens, Paul sent Timothy back to Thessalonica (1 Thessalonians 3:2) and Silas back to somewhere in Macedonia (Acts 18:5), perhaps Philippi (cf. Philippians 4:16). Paul entered Corinth without these brethren, but they joined him in Corinth later (Acts 18:5; 1 Thessalonians 3:6). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 18:5

Maybe Paul was able to stop practicing his trade and give full time to teaching and evangelizing if Silas returned from Philippi with a monetary gift, as seems likely (cf. Philippians 4:14-16; 2 Corinthians 11:9). Timothy had returned from Thessalonica with encouraging news about the Christians’ progress there (cf. 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10), but they were also having problems (1 Thessalonians 2:3-6; 1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 1 Thessalonians 5:11). Paul evidently wrote 1 Thessalonians soon after... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 18:5-11

Paul’s year and a half ministry in Corinth 18:5-11 read more

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