Teks -- Acts 19:1 (NET)

Disciples of John the Baptist at Ephesus

19:1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples there

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Robertson: Act 19:1 - While Apollos was at Corinth

While Apollos was at Corinth ( en tōi ton Apollō einai en Korinthōi ).

Favourite idiom with Luke, en with the locative of the articular infinitive and the accusative of general reference (Luk 1:8; Luk 2:27, etc.).

Robertson: Act 19:1 - Having passed through the upper country

Having passed through the upper country ( dielthonta ta anōterika merē ).

Second aorist active participle of dierchomai , accusative case agreeing with Paulon , accusative of general reference with the infinitive elthein , idiomatic construction with egeneto . The word for "upper"(anōterika ) is a late form for anōtera (Luk 14:10) and occurs in Hippocrates and Galen. It refers to the highlands (cf. Xenophon’ s Anabasis ) and means that Paul did not travel the usual Roman road west by Colossae and Laodicea in the Lycus Valley, cities that he did not visit (Col 2:1). Instead he took the more direct road through the Cayster Valley to Ephesus. Codex Bezae says here that Paul wanted to go back to Jerusalem, but that the Holy Spirit bade him to go into Asia where he had been forbidden to go in the second tour (Act 16:6). Whether the upper "parts"(merē ) here points to North Galatia is still a point of dispute among scholars. So he came again to Ephesus as he had promised to do (Act 18:21). The province of Asia included the western part of Asia Minor. The Romans took this country b.c. 130. Finally the name was extended to the whole continent. It was a jewel in the Roman empire along with Africa and was a senatorial province. It was full of great cities like Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (the seven churches of Rev. 2;3), Colossae, Hierapolis, Apamea, to go no further. Hellenism had full sway here. Ephesus was the capital and chief city and was a richer and larger city than Corinth. It was located at the entrance to the valley of the Maeander to the east. Here was the power of Rome and the splendour of Greek culture and the full tide of oriental superstition and magic. The Temple of Artemis was one of the seven wonders of the world. While in Ephesus some hold that Paul at this time wrote the Epistle to the Galatians after his recent visit there, some that he did it before his recent visit to Jerusalem. But it is still possible that he wrote it from Corinth just before writing to Rome, a point to discuss later.

Robertson: Act 19:1 - Certain disciples

Certain disciples ( tinas mathētas ).

Who were they? Apollos had already gone to Corinth. They show no connection with Priscilla and Aquila. Luke calls them "disciples"or "learners"(mathētas ) because they were evidently sincere though crude and ignorant. There is no reason at all for connecting these uninformed disciples of the Baptist with Apollos. They were floating followers of the Baptist who drifted into Ephesus and whom Paul found. Some of John’ s disciples clung to him till his death (Joh 3:22-25; Luk 7:19; Mat 14:12). Some of them left Palestine without the further knowledge of Jesus that came after his death and some did not even know that, as turned out to be the case with the group in Ephesus.

Vincent: Act 19:1 - Upper coasts

Upper coasts ( τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη )

Coasts is a bad rendering. Better, as Rev., " the upper country; " lit., parts or districts. The reference is to districts like Galatia and Phrygia, lying up from the sea-coast and farther inland than Ephesus. Hence the expedition of Cyrus from the sea-coast toward Central Asia was called Anabasis, a going-up.

Vincent: Act 19:1 - Certain disciples

Certain disciples

Disciples of John the Baptist, who, like Apollos, had been instructed and baptized by the followers of the Baptist, and had joined the fellowship of the Christians. Some have thought that they had been instructed by Apollos himself; but there is no sufficient evidence of this. " There they were, a small and distinct community about twelve in number, still preparing, after the manner of the Baptist, for the coming of the Lord. Something there was which drew the attention of the apostle immediately on his arrival. They lacked, apparently, some of the tokens of the higher life that pervaded the nascent church; they were devout, rigorous, austere, but were wanting in the joy, the radiancy, the enthusiasm which were conspicuous in others" (Plumptre, " St. Paul in Asia Minor" ) .

Wesley: Act 19:1 - Having passed through

Galatia and Phrygia, which were termed the upper parts of Asia Minor.

Wesley: Act 19:1 - Certain disciples

Who had been formerly baptized by John the Baptist, and since imperfectly instructed in Christianity.

JFB: Act 19:1-3 - while Apollos was at Corinth

Where his ministry was so powerful that a formidable party in the Church of that city gloried in his type of preaching in preference to Paul's (1Co 1:12; 1Co 3:4), no doubt from the marked infusion of Greek philosophic culture which distinguished it, and which the apostle studiously avoided (1Co 2:1-5).

JFB: Act 19:1-3 - Paul having passed through the upper coasts

"parts," the interior of Asia Minor, which, with reference to the seacoast, was elevated.

JFB: Act 19:1-3 - came to Ephesus

Thus fulfilling his promise (Act 18:21).

JFB: Act 19:1-3 - finding certain disciples

In the same stage of Christian knowledge as Apollos at first, newly arrived, probably, and having had no communication as yet with the church at Ephesus.

Clarke: Act 19:1 - And it came to pass - while Apollos was at Corinth

And it came to pass - while Apollos was at Corinth - The Codex Bezae begins this chapter differently. But then Paul was desirous, according to his own counsel, to go to Jerusalem, the Spirit commanded him to return into Asia: then, passing through the upper parts, he came to Ephesus. This addition is also found in the Latin or Itala part of the same MS., and in the margin of the later Syriac

Clarke: Act 19:1 - Paul having passed through the upper coasts

Paul having passed through the upper coasts - That is, through those parts of Asia Minor that lay eastward of Ephesus, such as Galatia, Phrygia, and probably Lycaonia and Lydia; and it is in reference to Ephesus that these are called the upper coasts. See their situation on the map.

Calvin: Act 19:1 - NO PHRASE

1. Luke showeth here that the Church of Ephesus was not only confirmed and increased by Paul’s return, but also that there was a miracle wrought there, because the visible graces of the Spirit were given to certain rude and new disciples. Furthermore, it is not known whether they were inhabitants of the city or strangers; neither doth it greatly skill. It is not to be doubted but that they were Jews, because they had received the baptism of John; also, it is to be thought that they dwelt at Ephesus when Paul found them there. −

Defender: Act 19:1 - Ephesus

Ephesus was the greatest commercial city in Asia Minor, the capital of the province of Asia with a busy harbor on the western coast. Its ruins are still beautiful and a great tourist attraction today."

TSK: Act 19:1 - that // Paul // came

that : Act 18:24-28; 1Co 1:12, 1Co 3:4-7, 1Co 16:12

Paul : Act 18:23

came : Act 18:19-21

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Poole: Act 19:1 - The upper coasts

Act 19:1-7 The Holy Ghost is conferred by Paul on twelve of

John’ s disciples.

Act 19:8-12 He preacheth at Ephesus, first in the synagogue, and

afterwards in a private school for two years; God

confirming the word by special miracles.

Act 19:13-20 Certain Jewish exorcists, attempting to cast out a devil

in the name of Jesus, are sent off naked and wounded:

the gospel gains credit, and magical books are burned.

Act 19:21-41 Paul proposing to depart soon, Demetrius and the

silversmiths raise an uproar against him, which is

with some difficulty appeased.

The upper coasts the north parts, in which were Pontus, Bithynia, Phrygia, and Galatia, Act 18:23 .

Haydock: Act 19:1 - Disciples

Disciples. These were apparently disciples of St. John the Baptist, who believed in Christ from his testimony, and had received no farther instruction, nor any baptism but John's. (Calmet)

Gill: Act 19:1 - 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

And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth,.... Whither he came after the Apostle Paul, and where he watered what the apostle had planted, and where he became very famous and eminent; insomuch that he was set up, though not with his will, at the head of a party, in opposition to the chief of the apostles, Peter and Paul; see 1Co 1:12.

Paul having passed through the upper coasts; that is, of Phrygia, Galatia, Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia, Lycaonia, and Paphlagonia;

came to Ephesus; into Ionia, of which Ephesus was the chief city, and lay near the sea; wherefore the other countries are called the upper coasts; hither he came, according to his promise in Act 28:21

And finding certain disciples; such as believed in Christ, made a profession of him, and had been baptized in his name, for such were commonly called disciples: these do not seem to be persons, who were either converted by Paul, when he was at Ephesus before, or by Apollos, who had been there since, and was gone; but rather some who came hither from other parts, since the apostle was at this place; though indeed his stay at Ephesus before was so short, that they might be here, and he not hear of them, or meet with them.