Acts 11:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: ”

• Acts 11:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Then the disciples - The Christians at Antioch. According to his ability - According as they had prospered. It does not imply that they were rich, but that they rendered such aid as they coul...

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• Acts 11:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (8) Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send (b) relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: (8) All congregations or churches make one body. (b) That is, that...

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• Acts 11:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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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• Acts 11:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Then, &c . Literally But as any one (Greek. tis) of the disciples prospered (Greek. euporeomai. Only here), they determined, each one of them. determined . Greek horizo. See note on Act...

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• Acts 11:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  29. But here ariseth a question, seeing that the misery was common to all, why ought they rather to have succored one people than all the rest? I answer, that forasmuch as Judea was impoverishe...

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• Acts 11:29 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1772 BENEVOLENCE OF THE CHURCH OF ANTIOCH Acts 11:29-30 . Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judœa: whi...

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• Acts 11:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: Then the disciples - determined to send relief - These were probably Gentile...

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• Acts 11:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Then the disciples, every man, &c.— It had been a custom for the Jews and proselytes, in their several dispersions, to send presents to Judea, and especially to Jerusalem; and the Jews in Judea...

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• Acts 11:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined t...

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• Acts 11:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 11:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then the disciples, every man according to his ability. — Literally, as each man prospered. It is obviously implied that the collection was made at once, as a provision against the famine, in con...

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• Acts 11:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 11:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Acts 11:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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:...

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• Acts 11:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then the disciples ,.... That were at Antioch, every man according to his ability ; whether rich or poor, master or servant, everyone according to the substance he was possessed of; whether more or...

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• Acts 11:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: Ver. 29. Every man according ] For to stretch beyond the staple is to ma...

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• Acts 11:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then the disciples Foreseeing the distress they would otherwise be in, on account of that famine; determined to send relief unto the brethren in Judea Καθως ηυπορειτο τις, according as each was...

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• Acts 11:29 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 11:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Primitive Charity.       27 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.   28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus...

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• Acts 11:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Every man according to his ability; which is the measure whereby we must mete out unto others: we are to give alms of such things as we have, or according as we are able, Luke 11:41 . These bre...

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• Acts 11:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  God's People Reach Out in Love To Meet Each Other's Needs (11:27-30). This is in a way similar to the summaries that had followed the early evangelism, demonstrating the spirituality and genuinene...

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• Acts 11:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 11:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Acts 11:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Acts 11:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 11:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Barnabas and Saul sent on a charitable mission:

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• Acts 11:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 13:5 ; 1 Corinthians 16:1 ; 1 Corinthians 16:2 ; 1 Peter 4:9-11 ; 2 Corinthians 8:12-14 ; 2 Corinthians 8:2-4 ; 2 Corinthians 9:1 ; 2 Corinthians 9:2 ; Acts 2:44 ; Acts 2:45 ;...

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• Acts 11:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Then — Understanding the distress they would otherwise be in on that account, the disciples determined to send relief to the brethren in Judea — Who herein received a manifest proof of the reality...

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