Acts 16:1-18

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 16:18

St. Paul was grieved, either for the maid’s sake, who suffered so much by her being possessed with this spirit, or, for their sakes who were seduced by him. St. Paul (as our Saviour had done, Mark 1:25) refuseth the testimony of the devil; for he being the father of lies, John 8:44, makes every thing he says to be suspected; as it is a usual punishment of liars, that they are not believed when they speak the truth; and the devil never speaks any truth but with an intention to deceive. In the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 16:1-5

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 16:1. Derbe and Lystra (see Acts 14:6) are now visited by Paul and Silas in reverse order to that followed in the first journey. There meant Lystra, not Derbe, as has been wrongly inferred out of Acts 20:4. The son of a certain woman, etc., should be, the son of a believing Jewish woman, whose name was Eunice, the daughter of Lois (2 Timothy 1:5), both pious females who instructed him in the Scriptures (2 Timothy 3:15), but of a Greek father, whoError! Hyperlink reference... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 16:6-10

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 16:6. Phrygia and the region of Galatia should probably be, the Phrygian and Galatian region; but whether one or two distinct districts is intended is presently under debate. The commonly accepted interpretation (Hackett, Alford, Plumptre, Holtzmann, Zöckler, and others) holds that Paul and Silas, having visited the Churches in Derbe, Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, directed their steps first in a north-easterly direction towards Phrygia, and then turned north-west towards... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 16:11-13

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 16:12. The chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony.—Better, a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a colony—i.e., of Rome. Macedonia was divided into four parts; but whether “the first” meant “the first arrived at” (Winer, Zöckler, Lightfoot Alford), not a very valuable observation; or the first in political importance (Farrar, Ramsay), which Philippi was, though Thessalonica was the capital of Macedonia, and Amphipolis of the province; or “the first to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 16:14-15

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 16:14. Lydia.—“Certainly a proper name, not a patronymic” (Zöckler). “She had probably become addicted to Jewish religious practices in her native city” (Ramsay). Thyatira.—A town in Lydia, famous for its dyeing.Acts 16:15. Come into my house, and abide there.—Up to this time the four teachers may have supported themselves by their own labours, Paul as a tent maker, Luke as a physician, Silas and Timothy in ways unknown. That Paul was reluctant to accept Lydia’s invitation... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 16:16-18

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 16:16. A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination.—Better, a female slave (Galatians 4:22) having the spirit of a pythoness, or, according to superior authorities, a spirit, a python. “The python was the serpent worshipped at Dephi, as the symbol of wisdom, from which the Pythian priestesses and Apollo as succeeding to the oracular power of the serpent took their distinguishing appellative” (Plumptre).HOMILETICAL ANALYSIS.—Acts 16:16-18The Cure of a Pythoness;... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 16:9

Acts 16:9 Before every well-done work the vision comes. We dream before we accomplish. What is all our boyhood, that comes before our life, and thinks and pictures to itself what that life shall be, that fancies and resolves and is impatient what is it but just the vision before the work, the dream of Europe coming to many a young life, as it sleeps at Troas, on the margin of the sea? The visions before the work; it is their strength that conquers the difficulties and lifts men up out of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 16:14-15

Acts 16:14-15 The Conversion of Lydia. I. Lydia was listening: "And a certain woman named Lydia, heard us." Great stress is laid in the Bible on hearing: "Faith cometh by hearing." II. Lydia listened attentively. She paid heed eagerly laid hold of the great truths enunciated by the Apostle. If you lay hold of the truth, the truth will lay hold of you. Once the hearers of the gospel reach this stage of close, anxious attention, this eager grasping of the truth, there is every reason to believe... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Acts 16:14-15

DISCOURSE: 1785THE CONVERSION OF LYDIAActs 16:14-15. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.IN preaching the Gospel to mankind, every minister will not be... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Acts 16:16-18

DISCOURSE: 1786A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUTActs 16:16-18. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: the same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out... read more

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