NET Notes: Act 19:28 Artemis was a Greek goddess worshiped particularly in Asia Minor, whose temple, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was ...

Imperfect middle indicative of paratēreō , common verb in late Greek for watching beside ( para ) or insidiously or on the sly as in Luk 6:7, they kept on ...

Old Greek word from auō , to dry up. Reproduced in Latin austeros and English austere. It means rough to the taste, stringent. Here only in the N.T. Compare ...

But Timothy was both Jew and Greek and would continually give offence to the Jews with no advantage to the cause of Gentile freedom. So here for the sake of ...

Here Jesus turns one of the elemental human instincts to spiritual use. There is in all men hunger for food, for love, for God. It is passionate hunger and ...

Wesley: Act 18:6 - From henceforth I will go to the Gentiles But not to them altogether. He did not break off all intercourse with the Jews even at Corinth.

The paradox of Jesus has puzzled many. He surely means that John is greater ( meizōn ) than all others in character, but that the least in the kingdom of heaven ...

Second aorist passive indicative of apostellō from which apostle comes. The angel Gabriel is God' s messenger to Mary as to Zacharias (Luk 1:19).

Philip a man who was one of the twelve apostles,a son of Herod the Great; husband of Herodias; ruler of Iturea and Traconitis north and west of Galilee,a ...

Elijah a prophet from the 9th century B.C.,a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead to Israel in King Ahab's time,son of Jeroham of Benjamin,a priest of the Harim ...