1 Korinther 9:3

3 Also antworte ich, wenn man mich fragt.

1 Korinther 9:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 9:3

Mine answer to them that do examine me is this.
] These words are referred by some to the following, as if the apostle's answer lay in putting the questions he does in the next verses; but they rather seem to belong to the preceding, and the meaning to be this, that when any persons called in question his apostleship, and examined him upon that head, what he thought fit to say in answer to them, and in defence of himself, was by referring them to the famous church at Corinth, who were as particular persons, and as a church, his work in the Lord, and everyone of them as so many seals of his apostleship; he being the first preacher of the Gospel to them, the founder of them as a church, and the instrument of their conversion.

1 Korinther 9:3 In-Context

1 Bin ich nicht ein Apostel? Bin ich nicht frei? Habe ich nicht unsern HERRN Jesus Christus gesehen? Seid ihr nicht mein Werk in dem HERRN?

2 Bin ich andern nicht ein Apostel, so bin ich doch euer Apostel; denn das Siegel meines Apostelamts seid ihr in dem HERRN.

3 Also antworte ich, wenn man mich fragt.

4 Haben wir nicht Macht zu essen und zu trinken?

5 Haben wir nicht auch Macht, eine Schwester zum Weibe mit umherzuführen wie die andern Apostel und des HERRN Brüder und Kephas?