Acts 18:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. ”

• Acts 18:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Then all the Greeks - The Greeks who had witnessed the persecution of Paul by the Jews, and who had seen the tumult which they had excited. Took Sosthenes ... - As he was the chief ruler of t...

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• Acts 18:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Gallio and Paul. Gallio's proconsulship is fixed by an inscription at Delphi which came to light in 1905; and gives an absolute date in Pauline chronology (p. 655). He had not been proconsul when P...

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• Acts 18:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  all the Greeks . The texts read, "they all". Sosthenes . He had apparently succeeded Crispus ( Acts 18:8 ). Compare 1 Corinthians 1:1 . bsat . The crowd, to whom the Jews were obnoxious, would...

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• Acts 18:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 17. All the Grecians having taken Sosthenes. This is that Sosthenes whom Paul doth honorably couple with himself as his companion in the beginning of the former Epistle to the Corinthians....

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• Acts 18:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1792 THE CHARACTER OF GALLIO Acts 18:17 . And Gallio cared for none of those things . WE are assured that not one jot or tittle of God’s word has ever failed, or ever can fail. But,...

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• Acts 18:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes - As this...

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• Acts 18:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes,— The Jews did not pay a proper regard to Gallio's orders: they had indeed the power of scourging in their synagogues whom they thought proper, of their own natio...

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• Acts 18:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. Then all [the Greeks]. The bracketed wo...

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• Acts 18:17 - 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 18:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue. — The better MSS. omit the word “Greeks,” which was probably inserted as an explanatory interpolation by some one who thought i...

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• Acts 18:17 - 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 18:17 - 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 18:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrar...

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• Acts 18:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes ,.... These were not the Greeks or Gentiles that were devout persons, or converted to Christianity, and were on the side of Paul, and fell foul on Sosthenes, as be...

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• Acts 18:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. Ver. 17. Took Sosthenes ] A beloved broth...

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• Acts 18:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then all the Greeks Who were present, perceiving how little favour the Jews found from the court, and displeased with them for their turbulent, persecuting spirit, perhaps, thinking that Paul was t...

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• Acts 18:17 - 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 18:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Paul Visits Corinth.       12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brou...

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• Acts 18:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  All the Greeks; not the converted Greeks, though St. Austin thought they beat Sosthenes, as an enemy to Paul, (yet surely they had not so learned Christ), but the unbelieving or Gentile Greeks, who...

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• Acts 18:17 - 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 18:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 18:12 . Gallio .—Gallio became proconsul towards the end of Claudius’s reign, about A.D. 53. His character, as depicted by ancient writers, corresponded with that revealed...

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• Acts 18:17 - Scofield Reference Notes

  cared for Contrast ( John 19:13-16 ); ( Acts 24:26 ); ( Acts 24:27 ).

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• Acts 18:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 18:17 I. Gallio was a Roman of a gentler than Roman type. His brother, the great Seneca, speaks of the wonderful charm of his character, and declares that they who loved him with all their lo...

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• Acts 18:17 - 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 18:17 - 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 18:17 - 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 18:17 - 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 18:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The insurrection at the time of Gallio:

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• Acts 18:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 1:1 ; 1 Corinthians 1:23 ; Acts 17:32 ; Acts 18:8 ; Amos 6:6

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• Acts 18:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Then they all took Sosthenes — The successor of Crispus, and probably Paul's chief accuser, and beat him — It seems because he had occasioned them so much trouble to no purpose, before the judgment...

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