And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging, [xenian (G3578)]: the word denotes one's place of stay as a guest (Philemon 1:22). It was probably not "his own hired house" (Acts 28:30), but that of some Christian friend, possibly Aquila's and Priscilla's (for they had returned to Rome, as we find from Romans 16:3), who would deem it a privilege to receive him; though he would soon find himself more at liberty in a house of his own.
To whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God - opening up the great spiritual principles of that kingdom, in opposition to the contracted and secular views of it entertained by the Jews;
Persuading them concerning Jesus - as the ordained and predicted Head of that kingdom,
Both out of the law of Moses, and out of the Prophets - drawing his materials and arguments from a source mutually acknowledged,
From morning until evening. 'Who would not wish to have been present?' exclaims Bengel; but virtually we are present while listening to those Epistles which be dictated from his prison at Rome, and to his other Epistolary expositions of Christian truth against the Jews.