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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth: Another most important city of Greece, where he struck at the very center of the country by preaching the gospel, since these were the centers of commerce, and also of literature.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. Lodged with them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tent makers. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. He stepped into the synagogue, and when the time came for strangers to address the audience he began to argue that Jesus was the true Messiah....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. He may not have brought out the whole truth at first, but argued little by little to bring them, as it were, up the steps till they should be prepared to receive the grand doctrine that Jesus is the anointed one....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. Oh! what a blessed “from henceforth” that was for you and for me! He no longer confines his ministry to Jews, but goes out seeking the Gentiles —takes up his true...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. “The nearer the church, the farther from God.” they say; but it was not so in this case. He was one that worshipped God and his house joined hard to the synagogue.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. That is the old-fashioned way, you know — “hearing, believed, and were baptized.” The new fashioned way is baptized, perhaps hear, and very likely do not believe at all. That is not according to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the Word of God among them. Farmers like to plough good soil, where they expect large...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat. Saying, This fellow “This fellow,” says our Bible, but they did not say that. They had not any word bad enough, so really said “this” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. I dare...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he drave them from the judgment seat. Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. Perhaps liked it. “You came here,” he said, “to accuse Paul, to get him beaten: now the mob is beating you, and serve you right. I shall not interfere. Why...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. Most probably not Paul, but Aquila had shorn his head, because usually Luke puts the man first. “Aquila, and his wife Priscilla”; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. Though he had turned away from them, yet still his heart is after his own country.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not: But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. Oh! how wise it is to say that, when we are making plans and promises, “If God will.” The short way is to put a little “D.V,” which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he sailed from Ephesus. And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch. And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. For you not only want planting, but strengthening. Young saints, like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John. He had not got farther than that; but it is always well to tell...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) Men like to be addressed in their own language; they give the more heed to the message if it is spoken to them in words that they can understand.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. As also...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do. And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus. And one, Ananias, a devout man according to the...