Acts 19

Acts 19

Acts 18:27-19:6 on recto side in Papyrus 38, written about AD 250.
Book Acts of the Apostles
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 5
Category Church history

Acts 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the third missionary journey of Paul.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.[2]

Text

The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 41 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:

Location

This chapter mentions the following places (in order of appearance):

Timeline

This part of the third missionary journey of Paul took place in ca. AD 53-55.[3]

Structure

This chapter can be grouped:

Verse 4

Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”[4]

Verse 14

Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.[5]

Sceva (Greek: Σκευᾶς Skeuas) was a Jew called a "chief priest". Some scholars note that it is not uncommon for some members of the Zadokite clan to take on an unofficial high-priestly role, which may explain this moniker.[6] However, it is more likely that he was an itinerant exorcist based on the use of the Greek term (Greek: περιερχομένων perierchomenōn) "going from place to place" in Acts 19:13.[7] In this chapter, it is recorded that he had seven sons who attempted to exorcise a demon from a man in the town of Ephesus by using the name of Jesus as an invocation. This practice is similar to the Jewish practice, originating in the Testament of Solomon of invoking Angels to cast out demons.[7]

Verse 15

And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”[8]

Verse 21

When these things were accomplished, 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.”[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ↑ John Arthur Thomas Robinson (1919-1983). "Redating the New Testament". Westminster Press, 1976. 369 pages. ISBN ISBN 978-1-57910-527-3
  4. ↑ Acts 19:4
  5. ↑ Acts 19:14
  6. ↑ Jeremias, Joachim (1969), Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus: An Investigation Into Economic & Social Conditions During the New Testament Period, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, p. 193, ISBN 978-1-4514-1101-0, retrieved 2013-03-01
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Arnold, Clinton (March 2012), "Sceva, Solomon, and Shamanism: The Jewish Roots of the Problem at Colossae" (PDF), Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55 (1): 7–26, ISSN 0360-8808, retrieved 2013-03-01
  8. ↑ Acts 19:15
  9. ↑ Acts 19:21

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