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14261 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.38 (Matthew Henry)
2. What they did—they did as they determined ( Acts 11:30 ). Which also they did. They not only talked of it, but they did it. Many a good motion of that kind is made and …
14262 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.38 (Matthew Henry)
2. How his iniquity was punished: Immediately ( Acts 12:23 ) the angel of the Lord smote him (by the order of Christ, for to him all judgment is committed), because he …
14263 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.38 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) How welcome should the preaching of the gospel of Christ be to the Jews, and how should they embrace it, as well worthy of all acceptation, when it brought them …
14264 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.55 (Matthew Henry)
… 13:38 ): “Through this man, who died and rose again, is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. We have to tell you, in God’s name, that your sins, though many and great …
14265 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , Job 38:28. 2. The benefits we have by these bounties witness to us that we ought to make our acknowledgments not to the creatures who are made serviceable to …
14266 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.38 (Matthew Henry)
1. Why they came thither: because thence they had been recommended to the grace of God, and such a value did they put upon a solemn recommendation to the grace …
14267 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . 20. 38-45: “That when Izates, the son of Helen queen of Adiabene, embraced the Jews’ religion, Ananias declared he might do it without circumcision; but Eleazar …
14268 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.38 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) The matter of the injunction, which is according to the advice given by James, that, to avoid giving offence to the Jews, [1.] They should never eat any thing that …
14269 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.49 (Matthew Henry)
… 15:38 ): He thought not good to take him with them, ouk exiou — he did not think him worthy of the honour, nor fit for the service, who had departed from them, clandestinely …
14270 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.35 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Jeremiah 38:6 ); and, as if this were not enough, he made their feet fast in the stocks. Perhaps, having heard a report of the escape of the preachers of the gospel …
14271 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.38 (Matthew Henry)
1. They were themselves hearty, wonderfully hearty; never were poor prisoners so truly cheerful, nor so far from laying their hard usage to heart. Let us consider …
14272 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.57 (Matthew Henry)
… 16:38, 16:39. 1. The magistrates were frightened when they were told (though it may be they knew it before) that Paul was a Roman. They feared when they heard it, lest …
14273 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.58 (Matthew Henry)
… 1:38 ). Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also, for therefore came I forth. Paul and Silas had an extraordinary call to Philippi; and yet, when they …
14274 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.38 (Matthew Henry)
5. That he is the sovereign disposer of all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of his will ( Acts 17:26 ): He hath determined the times before …
14275 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.38 (Matthew Henry)
1. His call to this service, not by a vision, as Paul was called to Macedonia, no, nor so much as by the invitation of those he was to go to; but, (1.) He himself inclined …
14276 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.38 (Matthew Henry)
2. How he was seconded in his purpose, and obliged to pursue it by the troubles which at length he met with at Ephesus. It was strange that he had been quiet there …
14277 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1039.38 (Matthew Henry)
2. He commanded them to mind the work to which they were called. Dignity calls for duty; if the Holy Ghost has made them overseers of the flock, that is, shepherds …
14278 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.38 (Matthew Henry)
1. He was seized in the temple, when he was there attending the days of his purifying, and the solemn services of those days, Acts 21:27. Formerly he had been well …
14279 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.17 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:38 ), but shall break up new ground, and preach the gospel where Christ was not named, Romans 15:20. So often does Providence contrive better for us than we for …
14280 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.22 (Matthew Henry)
… 11:38. And therefore they must be removed, that the world may be justly punished with the loss of them. The ungodly Jews here say of Paul that it was not fit he should …