magistrates
(Greek, "stratēgos", "Roman magistrates").
And brought them to the magistrates - To the military rulers στρατηγοῖς stratēgois or praetors. Philippi was a Roman colony, and it is prob...
(12) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, (12) Covetousness pretends a desire for co...
Imprisonment of Paul and Silas. The Prison Broken. The rulers ( Acts 16:19 ) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called Strategi, which...
brought . Greek. prosago. Only here, Acts 27:27 ; Luke 9:41 ; 1 Peter 3:18 . magistrates . These were Romans. Greek. strategos. Showing Luk...
− 20. These men trouble our city. This accusation was craftily composed to burden the servants of Christ. For on the one side they pretend t...
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, Brought them to the magistrates - Στρατηγοις, Th...
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 Duumvi...
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, And brought them to the magistrates, х...
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...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the...
Magistrates ] At Philippi there were two magistrates ( duumvirs ) corresponding to the consuls at Rome. Provincial duumvirs often claimed and rece...
The magistrates. — The Greek word used ( Stratêgi, literally, generals — the name survived in 1750 in the Italian Stradigo, used of the prefec...
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 gos...
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 rec...
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 ,.... The same as before; wherefore the Syriac version omits them there, and reads them both together here, call...
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, Ver. 20. Trouble our city ] Faithful preache...
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 l...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evide...
The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi. 16 And it came to pass,...
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; thou...
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...
Ministry in Philippi From the House of Lydia (16:12b-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the suc...
Arrest and Imprisonment Lead To Additions To The Church In Philippi (16:19-34). But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pocke...
‘And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, and set forth customs which i...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 16:19 . The rulers, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates ( Luke 12:58 ). Acts 16:20 . The magistrates , στρατηγοί, were...
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...
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 s...
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 so...
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone. Apostolic duty and vicissitudes I. Christ’s servants will use whatever power th...
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...
Paul and Silas imprisoned:
and brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
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 ; J...
Being Jews — A nation peculiarly despised by the Romans.
20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,