Act 19:28-41, 21:28-36, 22:21-22, 23:10-24, 25:3, 9-11, 27:42-44 | TSK | STEP

Acts 19:28-41

they.

7:54; 16:19-24; 21:28-31; Ps 2:2; Re 12:12

and cried.

34,35; 1Sa 5:3-5; 1Ki 18:26-29; Isa 41:5-7; Jer 50:38; Re 13:4

Re 17:13

the whole.

32; 17:8; 21:30,38

Gaius.

Ro 16:23; 1Co 1:14

Aristarchus.

20:4; 27:2; Col 4:10; Phm 1:24

Macedonia.Macedonia, an extensive province of Greece, was bounded on the north by the mountains of Haemus, on the south by Epirus and Achaia, on the east by the Aegean sea and Thrace, and on the west by the Adriatic sea; celebrated in all histories as being the third kingdom which, under Alexander the Great, obtained the empire of the world, and had under it 150 nations.

the theatre.

1Co 4:9; *Gr:

Paul.

14:14-18; 17:22-31; 21:39

the disciples.

2Sa 18:2,3; 21:17

the chief.

10; 16:6; Pr 16:7

desiring.

21:12

cried.

29; 21:34

and the.

40; Mt 11:7-9; Lu 7:24-26

Alexander.

1Ti 1:20; 2Ti 4:14

beckoned.

12:17; 13:16; 21:40; 24:10; Lu 1:22

his.

22:1; 26:1,2; Php 1:7

they knew.

all.

Great.

Ye men.

a worshipper. Gr. the temple-keeper. and of.

26; 2Th 2:10,11; 1Ti 4:2

Jupiter.

14:12,13

ye ought.

5:35-39; Pr 14:29; 25:8

which.

25:8; 1Co 10:32; 2Co 6:3

Demetrius.

have.

18:14; De 17:8; 1Co 6:1

the law is open. or, the court-days are kept.

lawful. or, ordinary.

we are.

17:5-8

uproar.

20:1; 21:31,38; 1Ki 1:41; Mt 26:5

when.

Pr 15:1,2; Ec 9:17

he dismissed.

Ps 65:7; 2Co 1:8-10

Acts 21:28-36

Men.

19:26-28; 24:5,6

This is.

21; 6:13,14; 24:5,6,18; 26:20,21

brought.

Jer 7:4-15; La 1:10

Trophimus.

20:4; 2Ti 4:20

all.

16:20-22; 19:29; 26:21; Mt 2:3; 21:10

and they.

7:57,58; 16:19; Lu 4:29; 2Co 11:26

as.

22:22; 26:9,10; Joh 16:2; 2Co 11:23-33

chief.

23:17; 24:7,22; 25:23; Joh 18:12

that all.

38; 17:5; 19:40; 1Ki 1:41; Mt 26:5; Mr 14:2

took.

23:23,24

and run.

23:27; 24:7

beating.

5:40; 18:17; 22:19; Isa 3:15

be.

11; 12:6; 20:23; 22:25,29; 28:20; Jud 15:13; 16:8,12,21; Eph 6:20

and demanded.

22:24; 25:16; Joh 18:29,30

some cried.

19:32

know.

22:30; 25:26

into.

37; 22:24; 23:10,16

for.

Ge 6:11,12; Ps 55:9; 58:2; Jer 23:10; Hab 1:2,3

7:54; 22:22; Lu 23:18; Joh 19:15; 1Co 4:13

Acts 22:21-22

Depart.

9:15

for.

9:15; 13:2,46,47; 18:6; 26:17,18; Ro 1:5; 11:13; 15:16; 16:26

Ga 1:15,16; 2:7,8; Eph 3:6-8; 1Ti 2:7; 2Ti 1:11

Away.

7:54-57; 21:36; 25:24; Lu 23:18; Joh 19:15

for.

25:24

Acts 23:10-24

fearing.

27; 19:28-31; 21:30-36; Ps 7:2; 50:22; Mic 3:3; Jas 1:19; 3:14-18

Jas 4:1,2

to take.

22:24

the Lord.

2:25; 18:9; 27:23,24; Ps 46:1,2; 109:31; Isa 41:10,14; 43:2

Jer 15:19-21; Mt 28:20; Joh 14:18; 2Co 1:8-10

Be.

27:22,25; Mt 9:2; 14:27; Joh 16:33

for.

19:21; 20:22; 22:18; 28:23-28; Ro 1:15,16; Php 1:13; 2Ti 4:17

must.

28:30,31; Isa 46:10; Joh 11:8-10

certain.

21,30; 25:3; Ps 2:1-3; 64:2-6; Isa 8:9,10; Jer 11:19; Mt 26:4

bound.

1Ki 19:2; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 27:25; Mr 6:23-26

under a curse. or, with an oath of execration.

Le 27:29; Jos 6:26; 7:1,15; Ne 10:29; Mt 26:74; *Gr:

1Co 16:22; Ga 3:13

that.Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (ch. 25:2, 3.) If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud.

1Sa 14:24,27,28,40-44; Ps 31:13

which.

2Sa 15:12,31; Joh 16:2

Ps 52:1,2; Isa 3:9; Jer 6:15; 8:12; Ho 4:9; Mic 7:3

that he.

25:3; Ps 21:11; 37:32,33; Pr 1:11,12,16; 4:16; Isa 59:7; Ro 3:14-16

when.

Job 5:13; Pr 21:30; La 3:37; 1Co 3:19

he went.

2Sa 17:17

one.

23; 22:26; Pr 22:3; Mt 8:8,9; 10:16

Paul.

16:25; 27:1; 28:17; Ge 40:14,15; Eph 3:1; 4:1; Phm 1:9

something.

Lu 7:40

took.

Jer 31:32; Mr 8:23; 9:27

What.

Ne 2:4; Es 5:3; 7:2; 9:12; Mr 10:51

The Jews.

as.

15; Ps 12:2; Da 6:5-12

do not.

Ex 23:2

for.

12-14; 9:23,24; 14:5,6; 20:19; 25:3; 2Co 11:26,32,33

an oath.

14; Ro 9:3

Jos 2:14; Mr 1:44

two centurions.

at.About nine o'clock in the evening, for the greater secrecy, and to elude the cunning, active malice of the Jews.

Mt 14:25; Lu 12:38

beast.

Ne 2:12; Es 8:12; Lu 10:34

Felix.

26,33-35; 24:3,10,22-27; 25:14

the governor.

Mt 27:2; Lu 3:1

Acts 25:3

desired.

9:2; 1Sa 23:19-21; Jer 38:4; Mr 6:23-25; Lu 23:8-24

laying.

23:12-15; 26:9-11; Ps 37:32,33; 64:2-6; 140:1-5; Jer 18:18; Joh 16:3

Ro 3:8

Acts 25:9-11

willing.

3,20; 12:3; 24:27; Mr 15:15

I stand.Every procurator represented the emperor in the province over which he presided; and as the seat of government was at Cesarea, St. Paul was before the tribunal where, as a Roman citizen, he ought to be judged.

16:37,38; 22:25-28

as thou.

25; 23:29; 26:31; 28:18; Mt 27:18,23,24; 2Co 4:2

if I.

18:14; Jos 22:22; 1Sa 12:3-5; Job 31:21,38-40; Ps 7:3-5

no man.

16:37; 22:25; 1Th 2:15

I appeal.An appeal to the emperor was the right of a Roman citizen, and was highly respected. The Julian law condemned those magistrates, and others, as violaters of the public peace, who had put to death, tortured, scourged, imprisoned, or condemned any Roman citizen who had appealed to Cesar. This law was so sacred and imperative, that, in the persecution under Trajan, Pliny would not attempt to put to death Roman citizens, who were proved to have turned Christians, but determined to send them to Rome, probably because they had appealed.

10,25; 26:32; 28:19; 1Sa 27:1

Acts 27:42-44

Ps 74:20; Pr 12:10; Ec 9:3; Mr 15:15-20; Lu 23:40,41

willing.

3,11,31; 23:10,24; Pr 16:7; 2Co 11:25

that.

22,24; Ps 107:28-30; Am 9:9; Joh 6:39,40; 2Co 1:8-10; 1Pe 4:18

land.Melita, now Malta, the island on which Paul and his companions were cast, is situate in the Mediterranean sea, about fifty miles from the coast of Sicily, towards Africa; and is one immense rock of soft white free-stone, twenty miles long, twelve in its greatest breadth, and sixty in circumference. Some, however, with the learned Jacob Bryant, are of opinion that this island was Melita in the Adriatic gulf, near Illyricum; but it may be sufficient to observe, that the course of the Alexandrian ship, first to Syracuse and then to Rhegium, proves that it was the present Malta, as the proper course from the Illyrian Melita would have been first to Rhegium, before it reached Syracuse, to which indeed it need not have gone at all.