word διελέξατο (dielexato; from διαλέγομαι, dialegomai) is frequently translated “reasoned,”“disputed,” or “argued,” this sense comes from its classical meaning where it was used of philosophical disputation, including the Socratic method of questions and answers...
In Chapter 2, Pitre studies three Epiphany Miracles (Stilling in the Storm, Walking on the Sea, and The Transfiguration). Pitre is clear: not all of Jesus’s miracles were signs of his divinity. But the epiphany miracles “certainly were taken as signs he was more than human” (108). ...
Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison - It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.
Whenever questions of doctrine arise, the book of Acts is generally passed over to find the answers in the epistles. Now days some people actually go to comments of unsaved rabbis who do not have the Holy Spirit, rather than the Book of Acts. Some actually seek answers on doctrinal issues ...
Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,... Read verse in The Webster Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible 内容 Chapter 26 Then Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul, stretching forth his hand, began to make his answer. 2 I think myself happy, O king Agrippa, that I am to answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the ...
Even Nicholas Ferrar, in his community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, directed that a chapter of it should be read every Sunday evening along with the Bible, and clergymen repeatedly made its stories of martyrdom the subject of their sermons. But as early as 1563, when Nicholas Harpsfield...
The People's Bible by Joseph Parker Acts 17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: Chapter 59 Prayer Almighty God, we come to thee in the name of Jesus Christ, and breathe our prayer through him who mak...
Chapter 1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive ...
“argued,” this sense comes from its classical meaning where it was used of philosophical disputation, including the Socratic method of questions and answers. However, there does not seem to be contextual evidence for this kind of debate inActs 18:19. As G. Schrenk (TDNT2:94-95) points ...