Acts 16:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, ”

• Acts 16:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And brought them to the magistrates - To the military rulers στρατηγοῖς stratēgois or praetors. Philippi was a Roman colony, and it is probable that the officers of the army exercised the d...

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• Acts 16:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (12) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, (12) Covetousness pretends a desire for common peace and godliness.

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• Acts 16:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Imprisonment of Paul and Silas. The Prison Broken. The rulers ( Acts 16:19 ) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called Strategi, which answers to the Roman Prœ tores. Philippi was a c...

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• Acts 16:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  brought . Greek. prosago. Only here, Acts 27:27 ; Luke 9:41 ; 1 Peter 3:18 . magistrates . These were Romans. Greek. strategos. Showing Luke's accuracy. The magistrates of this colony bore...

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• Acts 16:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 20. These men trouble our city. This accusation was craftily composed to burden the servants of Christ. For on the one side they pretend the name of the Romans, than which nothing was more...

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• Acts 16:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, Brought them to the magistrates - Στρατηγοις, The commanders of the army, who, very likely, as thi...

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• Acts 16:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Unto the rulers,— The word στρατηγοι, made use of in the 20th verse, denotes with the Greeks Roman praetors; and if it was applied to the Duumviri, who were the governors of colonies, it was by...

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• Acts 16:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, And brought them to the magistrates, х strateegois ( G4755 )] - the Duumviri, who in t...

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• Acts 16:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  St. Paul in Europe 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel,...

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• Acts 16:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The magistrates. — The Greek word used ( Stratêgi, literally, generals — the name survived in 1750 in the Italian Stradigo, used of the prefect of Messina) is used with St. Luke’s usual accura...

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• Acts 16:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Welcomed; Attested; Imprisoned Acts 16:14-24 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gospel which was to transform Europe. The need for it...

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• Acts 16:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with...

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• Acts 16:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, (20) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These...

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• Acts 16:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And brought them to the magistrates ,.... The same as before; wherefore the Syriac version omits them there, and reads them both together here, calling them the magistrates and chief men of the city...

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• Acts 16:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, Ver. 20. Trouble our city ] Faithful preachers have ever been by the wicked accounted trouble...

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• Acts 16:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone Was vanished with the evil spirit that was cast out. See here of how much evil the love of money is the root! If the preaching of the...

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• Acts 16:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visi...

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• Acts 16:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi.       16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed...

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• Acts 16:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Magistrates, the same who are called rulers; and the word here shows, that they were under the power of the sword, and ruled by the Romans; though the rulers spoken of in the former verse might...

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• Acts 16:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Mission to Europe (16:6-19:20). Paul's plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he was first hindered from going one way, and then a...

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• Acts 16:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 16:19 . The rulers, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates ( Luke 12:58 ). Acts 16:20 . The magistrates , στρατηγοί, were the two chief civic authorities (dunmviri) in a R...

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• Acts 16:20 - Scofield Reference Notes

  magistrates (Greek, "stratēgos", "Roman magistrates").

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• Acts 16:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Acts 16:9 . And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts...

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• Acts 16:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 16:1 . Then came he to Lystra, as in Acts 14:6 . In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timoth...

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• Acts 16:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination. The Pythoness The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as some MSS. give it, a Python spirit. The Python was t...

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• Acts 16:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 16:1 And he came also for then came he, A.V. and T.R.; to Lystra for Lystra, A.V. ; Timothy for Timotheus, A.V. ; of a Jewess for of a certain woman which was...

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• Acts 16:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Paul and Silas imprisoned:

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• Acts 16:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 18:17 ; 1 Kings 18:18 ; Acts 17:6-8 ; Acts 18:2 ; Acts 19:34 ; Acts 28:22 ; Esther 3:8 ; Esther 3:9 ; Ezra 4:12-15 ; James 4:4 ; John 15:18-20 ; Matthew 2:3 ; Romans 12:2

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• Acts 16:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Being Jews — A nation peculiarly despised by the Romans.

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