Overview - Acts 8 1?By occasion of the persecution in Jerusalem, the church being planted in Samaria, by Philip the deacon, who preached, did miracles...
We must (dei). Moral necessity left them no choice. They stood precisely where Peter and John were when before the Sanhedrin before ( Acts 4:20 ). Ob...
We straitly charged (Paraggeliai parhggeilamen). Like the Hebrew idiom (common in the LXX), though found in Greek, with charging (instrumental case) ...
Overview - Matthew 20 1?Christ, by the similitude of the labourers in the vineyard, shows that God is debtor unto no man; 17?foretells his passion; 20...
Overview - Acts 20 1?Paul goes to Macedonia, and thence to Troas. 7?He celebrates the Lord's supper, and preaches. 9?Eutychus having fallen down dea...
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 ...
Overview - Deuteronomy 4 1?An exhortation to obedience. 41?Moses appoints the three cities of refuge on that side of Jordan. 44?Recapitulation. Treasu...
And stand (kai staqente). First aorist passive participle (intransitive, ingressive aorist), take a stand. Bold and pictorial command. All the words ...
Overview - Matthew 10 1?Christ sends out his twelve apostles, enabling them with power to do miracles; 5?giving them their charge, teaches them; 16?c...
Overview - Daniel 3 1?Nebuchadnezzar dedicates a golden image in Dura. 8?Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are accused for not worshipping the image. 1...
Blessed and holy (makario kai agio). A fifth beatitude ( Acts 1:3 ; Acts 14:13 ; Acts 16:15 ; Acts 19:9 ) already and two more to come ( Acts 22:7...
Greece [E]Inhabitants ofCalled Gentiles (non-Jews) Mark 7:26 ; John 7:35 ; Romans 2:10 ; 3:9 ; 1?Corinthians 10:32 ; 12:13 Desire to see Jesus...
Overview - Acts 17 1?Paul preaches at Thessalonica, where some believe, 5?and others persecute him. 10?He is sent to Berea, and preaches there. 13?Be...
Overview - Matthew 10 1?Christ sends out his twelve apostles, enabling them with power to do miracles; 5?giving them their charge, teaches them; 16?c...
Overview - Jeremiah 15 1?The utter rejection and manifold judgments of the Jews. 10?Jeremiah, complaining of their spite, receives a promise for himse...
Strangled Things dying by strangulation, forbidden as food Acts 15:20 Acts 15:29 ; 21:25 Bibliography InformationNave, Orville J. Entry for 'Stran...
Assos, or Assus (approaching ), a seaport of the Roman province of Asia in the district anciently called Mysia, on the northern shore of the Gulf of ...
Prayer, public Acceptable to God Isaiah 56:7 God promises to hear 2 Chronicles 7:14 2 Chronicles 7:16 God promises to bless in Exodus 20:...
Acts 20:38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake In ( Acts 20:25 ) it filled them with sorrow to part with him; but this was increased, a...
Overview - 2?Timothy 4 1?He exhorts him to do his duty with all care and diligence; 6?certifies him of the nearness of his death; 9?wills him to com...