What then? (ti gar?). Sharp problem put up to Paul by the conduct of the Judaizers. Only that (plhn oti). Same idiom in Acts 20:23 . Plhn is adverb ...
Gaius [N] [H] [S] A Macedonian, Paul's fellow-traveller, and his host at Corinth when he wrote his Epistle to the ( Romans 16:23 ). He with his househ...
Overview - Acts 13 1?Paul and Barnabas are chosen to go to the Gentiles. 6?Of Sergius Paulus, and Elymas the sorcerer. 13?Paul preaches at Antioch th...
Overview - Acts 14 1?Paul and Barnabas are persecuted from Iconium. 8?At Lystra Paul heals a cripple, whereupon they are reputed as gods. 19?Paul is ...
Kept silence (esighsen). Ingressive first aorist active of sigaw, old verb, to hold one's peace. All the multitude became silent after Peter's speech...
Having found (aneuronte). Second aorist active participle of aneuriskw, to seek for, to find by searching (ana). There was a church here, but it was ...
Paul was suffered to abide by himself (epetraph twi Paulwi menein kaq eauton). Second aorist passive of epitrepo, to permit or allow. Literally, It w...
Overview - Acts 23 1?As Paul pleads his cause, 2?Ananias commands them to smite him. 7?Dissension among his accusers. 11?God encourages him. 14?The ...
A sharp contention (paroxusmo). Our very word paroxysm in English. Old word though only twice in the N.T. (here and Hebrews 10:24 ), from paroxunw, ...
TROPHIMUS trof'-i-mus (Trophimos, literally, a foster child (Acts 20:4; 21:29; 2?Timothy 4:20)): An Asiatic Christian, a friend and companion-in-trav...
When Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them (Genomenh stasew kai zhthsew ouk oligh twi Paulwi kai Barnabai pro autou). G...
CLAUDIUS LYSIAS klo'-di-us lis'-i-as (Klaudios Lysias): A chief captain who intervened when the Jews sought to do violence to Paul at Jerusalem (Acts...
So then neither--neither--but (Hwste oute--oute--all). Paul applies his logic relentlessly to the facts. He had asked what (ti) is Apollos or Paul (v...
As it is written (kaqw gegraptai). From Isaiah 52:15 . Paul finds an illustration of his word about his own ambition in the words of Isaiah. Fritzsc...
Assayed to profane (epeirasen bebhlwsai). A flat untruth, but the charge of the Asian Jews ( Acts 21:28-30 ). Verbum optum ad calumnian (Bengel). We ...
Demas [E] [H] [S]A companion of Paul Colossians 4:14 ; Philemon 1:24 Deserts Paul 2?Timothy 4:10 [E] indicates this entry was also found in Easto...
Paul stood up (anasta Paulo). The Jewish custom was to sit while speaking ( Luke 4:20 ), but the Greek and Roman was to stand ( Acts 17:22 ). It is p...
For when one saith (otan gar legh ti). Indefinite temporal clause with the present subjunctive of repetition (Robertson, Grammar, p. 972). Each insta...
Went through (dihrceto). Imperfect middle. So Paul went forth on his second mission tour with heart-aches and high hopes mingled together. Syria and ...
I did not myself burden you (egw ou katebarhsa uma). First aorist active of late verb katabarew, to press a burden down on one. Only here in N.T. Cra...