“ And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. ”
And in these days - While Barnabas and Saul were at Antioch. Came prophets - The word “prophet” denotes properly “one who foretells future events.” See the notes on Matthew 7:15 . It is some...
(7) And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. (7) God punishes his Church when he punishes the wicked, in his scourges and plagues which he sends upon the earth, in such a way tha...
Prophecy of Agabus. Mission to Jerusalem of Barnabas and Saul. Prophets from Jerusalem ( cf. Acts 15:32 *). Vague dating, in those days. The story fixes its own date. Agabus appears again in Ac...
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27. Luke commendeth in this place the faith of the men of Antioch by the fruit, because they endeavored to relieve the poverty of that church, from whence they received the gospel, with their a...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. Came prophets from Jerusalem - Though the term prophet is used in the New Testament simply to signify a teacher, (see the note on Genesis...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And in these days came prophets - that is, 'inspired teachers, or persons speaking with supernatural authority;' a class with whic...
The First Gentile Church 1-18. The baptism of Cornelius discussed and approved at Jerusalem. Those Christians who maintained the need of observing the Ceremonial Law did not attack the baptism its...
Came prophets from Jerusalem. — The mission thus described was obviously a further sanction given by the Church at Jerusalem to the work that Saul and Barnabas were carrying on at Antioch. If we ad...
Knitting Together the Church Acts 11:19-30 The development of God's plan is still further disclosed in the events recorded in this section, which describe the same phenomenon of Gentile convers...
It is very interesting to note how slowly the prejudices of the Hebrew Christians gave way, and yet how amenable they were to the evidences as they appeared. The apostles and the brethren at Jerusale...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. (28) And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world:...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch. , That is, some time in that year that Saul and Barnabas were at Antioch, there came from Jerusalem thither some Christian prophets; for su...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. Ver. 27. From Jerusalem unto Antioch ] The Church whereof was now grown so famous by the pious labours of Paul and Barnabas, that many...
In these days While Barnabas and Saul were at Antioch; came prophets thither from Jerusalem Persons who were divinely inspired to foretel future events. And there stood up In the congregation...
News of Peter's carrying the gospel to Gentiles had preceded him to Jerusalem. When he arrived there, therefore, he was faced by those who were specially zealous of the law, and who spoke accusingly...
Primitive Charity. 27 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. 28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus...
These here meant were enabled to foretell things to come; a gift which God did furnish some of his church with on such an extraordinary occasion, Ephesians 4:11 , whereby they did beforehand signi...
‘Now in these days there came down prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch.' It began when prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch, presumably because they had heard of the work that was going on an...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 11:19 . Upon the persecution. —Or, tribulation, ἀπὸ πῆς θλίψεως: better, from (as an effect of) the persecution, that arose about Stephen, ἐπὶ Στεφάνῳ— i.e., on acc...
Acts 11:2 . They of the circumcision contended with him. Those who were zealous of the law, apprehending that Christ and his grace had only been promised and confined to themselves, the call and c...
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. Fruit from the Gentiles 1. The relation between the old Church at Jerusalem and the new at Antioch was that which St. Paul, writing...
EXPOSITION Acts 11:1 Now for and , A.V.; the brethren for brethren, A.V.; also had for had also , A.V, We can imagine how rapidly the news of the great revolution would travel t...
And in these days came prophets rom Jerusalem unto Antioch.
1 Corinthians 12:28 ; 1 Corinthians 14:32 ; Acts 13:1 ; Acts 15:32 ; Acts 2:17 ; Acts 21:4 ; Acts 21:9 ; Ephesians 4:11 ; Matthew 23:34