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 - Judges 9 1?Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brethren, is made king. 7?Jotham by a parable rebukes them, and...
Matthew 10:3 Philip and Bartholomew The first of these was called next; his name is a Greek one, which his parents, though Jews, might take from the G...
The names of the twelve apostles (twn dwdeka apostolwn ta onomata). This is the official name (missionaries) used here by Matthew for the first time....
Philip findeth (euriskei Pilippo). Dramatic present again. Philip carries on the work. One wins one. If that glorious beginning had only kept on! Now...
From Jericho (apo Iereicw). See on Mt 20:29 for discussion of this phrase and Luke's ( Luke 18:35 ) nigh unto Jericho and the two Jerichos, the old a...
John 21:2 There were together In one place, in one house, in some town, or city of Galilee, not far from the sea of Tiberias; nor, as very likely, far...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 4. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation. Easier said than done. Yet it shows how thorough going are the ...
Overview - Judges 9 1?Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brethren, is made king. 7?Jotham by a parable rebukes them, and...
John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael Who was of Cana of Galilee, ( John 21:2 ) and where, it is very likely, Philip found him; since we quickly read of ...
Ver. 13 And when they were come in Into it, as the Arabic version reads; that is, into the city of Jerusalem, and into some house in that city; but w...
Overview - Acts 1 1?Christ, preparing his apostles to the beholding of his ascension, gathers them together unto the mount Olivet, commands them to ex...
5-5. AFTER PRAYER JESUS SELECTS TWELVE APOSTLES. (Near Capernaum.) a?MATT. 10:2-4; b?MARK 3:13-19; c?LUKE 6:12-16. ? ? ? c?12 And it came t...
10:1? And he called unto him his twelve disciples1, and gave them authority over unclean spirits2, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease...
3-4. JESUS MAKES HIS FIRST DISCIPLES. (Bethany beyond Jordan, Spring A. D. 27.) d?JOHN 1:35-51. ? ? ? d?35 Again on the morrow [John's direct ...
Isaiah 49:12 Behold, these shall come from far This is a prophecy of the conversion of the Jews, or of the Gentiles, or of both, in the latter day, in...
Monstrous Outrage Upon Females At Nismes it is well known that the women wash their clothes either at the fountains or on the banks of streams. Ther...
Acts 1:23 And they appointed two The motion made by Peter was attended to by the whole company; they approved of it, and accordingly proposed two pers...
Pantaenus The Alexandrian Philosopher.Pantaenus(1) The Alexandrian Philosopher. [a.d. 182-192-212.] The world owes more to Pantaenus than to all the o...
CHAPTER XXII: THE GREAT SCHISM (AD 1378-1410) Gregory XI died in 1378, and the choice of a successor to him was noeasy matt...