Acts 18:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. ”

• Acts 18:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And he continued ... - Paul was not accustomed to remain long in a place. At Ephesus, indeed, he remained three years Acts 20:31 ; and his stay at Corinth was caused by his success, and by the n...

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• Acts 18:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And he (e) continued [there] a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. (e) Literally, "sat", whereupon they in former time took the name of their bishop's seat: but Paul sat, that...

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• Acts 18:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Paul at Corinth. Corinth (p. 832), the seat of the Roman proconsul, was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and lux...

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• Acts 18:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  continued . Literally "sat". Figure of speech Synecdoche (of species). "Sit" used of. permanent condition. a year and six months . In A.D. 52-53. During this period Paul wrote. Thess. (A.D. 52)...

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• Acts 18:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 11. He continued there a year. We do not read that Paul stayed so long anywhere else save there; and yet it appeareth by his two epistles that he was not only likely to suffer much trouble...

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• Acts 18:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. He continued there a year and six months - He was now confident that he was under the especial protection of God,...

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• Acts 18:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And Crispus,— St. Paul's labours in the synagogue had not been without some success; for Crispus, one of the rulers of the synagogue, embraced Christianity with his whole family; and afterwards m...

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• Acts 18:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. This is meant to embrace...

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• Acts 18:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  St Paul's Second Missionary Journey, 49, 50 a.d. ( Acts 15:36 to Acts 18:22 ) Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his mission...

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• Acts 18:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And he continued there a year and six months. — This obviously gave time not only for founding and organising a Church at Corinth itself, but for work in the neighbouring districts, such as the por...

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• Acts 18:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Great Ministry in a Great City Acts 18:1-17 Paul tells us, in 1 Corinthians 2:1-4 , that he entered Corinth with fear and trembling and made no effort to attract by human wisdom or eloquence...

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• Acts 18:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...

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• Acts 18:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. (6) And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook hi...

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• Acts 18:11 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST ‘Be not afraid … for I am with thee.’ Acts 18:9-10 The living Christ as the life of His Church is the keynote of the Acts of the Apostles. Such is the glorious trut...

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• Acts 18:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he continued there ,.... At Corinth, as the Syriac version, and some copies, read; he was obedient to the heavenly vision: in the Greek text it is, "he sat" there, answerable to the Hebrew word...

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• Acts 18:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. Ver. 11. And he continued there ] Gr. εκαθισε, He sat down there a great while, though he met with many discou...

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• Acts 18:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then spake the Lord The Lord Jesus; in the night by a vision to Paul Who, probably, had been discouraged in view of the learning, politeness, and grandeur of many Gentile inhabitants of the city,...

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• Acts 18:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wi...

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• Acts 18:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Paul Visits Corinth.       7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, w...

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• Acts 18:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He sat there as his fixed place; which implies his continuance and constancy in the work of the ministry.

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• Acts 18:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Successful Ministry in Corinth (18:1-17). Paul had recognised that in a small town like Athens he could well spare his companions and had sent Timothy off to Thessalonica, and Silas to Macedonia,...

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• Acts 18:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 18:5 . Pressed in spirit .—According to the oldest authorities this should be was held together by the word , συνείχετο τῷ λόγῳ— i.e. , either earnestly occupied with the...

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• Acts 18:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1 . After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth: Another mos...

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• Acts 18:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 18:2 . Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome. Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ni...

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• Acts 18:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth. Paul at Corinth Paul entered, not the grand, classical Corinth, but a sort of afterglow Corinth. The old city had been destroye...

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• Acts 18:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 18:1 He for Paul, A.V. and T.R. After these things , etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Be...

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• Acts 18:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Success in preaching to the Gentiles:

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• Acts 18:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 14:3 ; Acts 19:10 ; Acts 20:31

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• Acts 18:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He continued there a year and six months — A long time! But how few souls are now gained in a longer time than this? Who is in the fault? Generally both teachers and hearers.

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