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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Acts 19

Chapter 19

And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

that

18:24-28 1 Corinthians 1:12 3:4-7 16:12

Paul

18:23

came

18:19-21

He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

Have ye

5 2:17,38,39 8:15-17 10:44 11:15-17 Romans 1:11

We have

1 Samuel 3:7 John 7:39 1 Corinthians 6:19 12:1-11 Galatians 3:5

And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

Unto what

Matthew 28:19 1 Corinthians 12:13

Unto John's

18:25 Matthew 3:1-17 Luke 3:1-38

Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

John

1:5 11:16 13:23-25 Matthew 3:11,12 11:3-5 21:25-32 Mark 1:1-12 Luke 1:76-79 3:16-18 John 1:15,27,29-34 3:28-36 5:33-35

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

they

2:38 8:12,16 Romans 6:3,4 1 Corinthians 1:13-15 10:2

And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

laid

6:6 8:17-19 9:17 1 Timothy 5:22 2 Timothy 1:6

the Holy Ghost

2:4 10:45,46 13:2 1 Corinthians 12:8-11,28-30

and prophesied

1 Corinthians 14:1-25

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

went

13:14,46 14:1 26:22,23

disputing

9 1:3 9:20-22 17:1-3,17 18:4,19 28:23 Jude 1:3

But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

Cir

A.M. 4061. A.D. 57. divers.

7:51 13:45,46 18:6 2 Kings 17:14 2 Chronicles 30:8 36:16 Nehemiah 9:16,17,29 Psalms 95:8 Isaiah 8:14 Jeremiah 7:26 19:15 John 12:40 Romans 9:18 11:7 *marg:; Hebrews 3:13

but spake

23 9:2 22:4 24:21 28:22 2 Timothy 1:15 2 Peter 2:2,12 Jude 1:10

he departed

14:4 17:4 18:7,8 Matthew 15:14 16:4 Luke 12:51-53 1 Timothy 6:5 2 Timothy 3:5

daily

20:31 Proverbs 8:34 Matthew 26:55 2 Timothy 4:2

And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

this

18:11 20:18,31 Romans 10:18

Asia

16:6 2 Timothy 1:15 1 Peter 1:1 Revelation 1:4,11

both

18:4 20:20,21 Romans 1:16 10:12 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 Galatians 3:28 Colossians 3:11

And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

5:12 14:3 15:12 16:18 Mark 16:17-20 John 14:12 Romans 15:18,19 Galatians 3:5 Hebrews 2:4

So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

5:15 2 Kings 4:29-31 13:20,21

Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

vagabond

Genesis 4:12,14 Psalms 109:10

exorcists

Matthew 12:27 Luke 11:19

took

8:18,19 Mark 9:38 Luke 9:49

adjure

Joshua 6:26 1 Samuel 14:24 1 Kings 22:16 Matthew 26:63 Mark 5:7

And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?

16:17,18 Genesis 3:1-5 1 Kings 22:21-23 Matthew 8:29-31 Mark 1:24,34 5:9-13 Luke 4:33-35 8:28-32

And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Mark 5:3,4,15 Luke 8:29,35

And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

all

and fear

2:43 5:5,11,13 13:12 Leviticus 10:3 1 Samuel 6:20 2 Samuel 6:9 Psalms 64:9 Luke 1:65 Luke 7:16

the name

Philippians 1:20 2:9-11 2 Thessalonians 1:12 3:1 Hebrews 2:8,9 Revelation 5:12-14

And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

confessed

Leviticus 16:21 26:40 Job 33:27,28 Psalms 32:5 Proverbs 28:13 Jeremiah 3:13 Ezekiel 16:63 36:31 Matthew 3:6 Romans 10:10 1 John 1:9

Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

used

8:9-11 13:6,8 Exodus 7:11,22 Deuteronomy 18:10-12 1 Samuel 28:7-9 1 Chronicles 10:13 2 Chronicles 33:6 Isaiah 8:19 47:12,13 Daniel 2:2

curious

[periergos (periðergov)] curious, that is, magical arts, in which sense the word is used in the Greek writers. The study of magic was prosecuted with such zeal at Ephesus, that [Ephesios gramma

and burned

Genesis 35:4 Exodus 32:20 Deuteronomy 7:25,26 Isaiah 2:20,21 30:22 Matthew 5:29,30 Luke 14:33 Hebrews 10:34

fifty

Probably Attic drachms; which at 7.Æd. each, would amount to 1,562£. 10s. or at, 9d. each, to 1,875£.

So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

6:7 12:24 Isaiah 55:11 2 Thessalonians 3:1

After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.

Cir

A.M. 4063. A.D. 59. these.

Romans 15:25-28 Galatians 2:1

purposed

16:6-10 18:21 20:22 Lamentations 3:37 Romans 1:13 2 Corinthians 1:15-18

when

20:1-6

to go

20:16,22 21:4,11-15,17 24:17,18 Romans 15:25,26

I must

18:21 23:11 25:10-12 27:1,24 28:16,30,31 Romans 1:15 15:23-29 Philippians 1:12-14

So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.

Macedonia

16:9,10 18:5 20:1 2 Corinthians 1:16 2:13 8:1 11:9 1 Thessalonians 1:8

that ministered

13:5 16:3

Erastus

Romans 16:23 2 Timothy 4:20

And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.

there

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 6:9

that

9 9:2 18:26 22:4 24:14,22

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

shrines

[Naus] temples, probably portable silver models of the temple of Diana, and small images of the goddess, somewhat like the Santa Casa purchased by pilgrims at Loretto.

Diana

27,28,34,35

brought

16:16 Isaiah 56:11,12 1 Timothy 6:9,10

Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.

ye know

16:19 Hosea 4:8 12:7,8 2 Peter 2:3 Revelation 18:3,11-19

Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

that not

10,18-20 1 Corinthians 16:8,9 1 Thessalonians 1:9

that they

14:15 17:29 Psalms 115:4-8 135:15-18 Isaiah 44:10-20 46:5-8 Jeremiah 10:3-5,11,14,15 Hosea 8:6 1 Corinthians 8:4 10:19,20 12:2 Galatians 4:8

made

Verse 27

So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

that not

21 Zephaniah 2:11 Matthew 23:14 1 Timothy 6:5

whom

1 John 5:19 Revelation 13:3,8

And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

they

7:54 16:19-24 21:28-31 Psalms 2:2 Revelation 12:12

and cried

34,35 1 Samuel 5:3-5 1 Kings 18:26-29 Isaiah 41:5-7 Jeremiah 50:38 Revelation 13:4 Revelation 17:13

And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

the whole

32 17:8 21:30,38

Gaius

Romans 16:23 1 Corinthians 1:14

Aristarchus

20:4 27:2 Colossians 4:10 Philemon 1:24

Macedonia

Macedonia, an extensive province of Greece, was bounded on the north by the mountains of Haemus, on the south by Epirus and Achaia, on the east by the Aegean sea and Thrace, and on the west by the Adriatic sea; celebrated in all histories as being the third kingdom which, under Alexander the Great, obtained the empire of the world, and had under it 150 nations.

the theatre

1 Corinthians 4:9 *Gr:

And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.

Paul

14:14-18 17:22-31 21:39

the disciples

2 Samuel 18:2,3 21:17

And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

the chief

10 16:6 Proverbs 16:7

desiring

21:12

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

cried

29 21:34

and the

40 Matthew 11:7-9 Luke 7:24-26

And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.

Alexander

1 Timothy 1:20 2 Timothy 4:14

beckoned

12:17 13:16 21:40 24:10 Luke 1:22

his

22:1 26:1,2 Philippians 1:7

But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

they knew

26 16:20 Romans 2:22

all

1 Kings 18:26 Matthew 6:7

Great

28 Revelation 13:4

And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

Ye men

Ephesians 2:12

a worshipper

Gr. the temple-keeper. and of.

26 2 Thessalonians 2:10,11 1 Timothy 4:2

Jupiter

14:12,13

Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

ye ought

5:35-39 Proverbs 14:29 25:8

For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.

which

25:8 1 Corinthians 10:32 2 Corinthians 6:3

Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.

Demetrius

have

18:14 Deuteronomy 17:8 1 Corinthians 6:1

the law is open

or, the court-days are kept.

But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

lawful

or, ordinary.

For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.

we are

17:5-8

uproar

20:1 21:31,38 1 Kings 1:41 Matthew 26:5

And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

when

Proverbs 15:1,2 Ecclesiastes 9:17

he dismissed

Psalms 65:7 2 Corinthians 1:8-10