Acts 18:2 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 18:2

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

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ASV

And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them;

KJV

And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And found a certain Jew named Aquila,.... This seems to have been his Roman name, which he had took, or was given him, while he was at Rome; very likely his Jewish name was נשד, "Nesher", which signifies an eagle, as "Aquila" does: unless it should rather be thought to be a Greek name; and as "Olympas" is from "Olympios", and "Nymphas" from Nymphios"; so "Akilas", as it in the Greek text, from Akylios", and this from ακυλος, "Akylos", which signifies an acorn.

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The Reformation1 voice

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

Also we may see how the Lord, by his singular counsel, turneth those things to his glory, and the salvation of the godly, which seem contrary to the flesh, and unhappy. Nothing is more miserable than exile, according to the sense of the flesh.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A certain Jew named Aquila - Some have supposed that this Aquila was the same with the Onkelos, mentioned by the Jews. See the article in Wolfius, Bibl. Hebr. vol. ii. p. 1147. We have no evidence that this Jew and his wife were at this time converted to the Christian religion. Their conversion was most likely the fruit of St. Paul’s lodging with them - Pontus. See the note on Act 2:

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

From this province there were Jews at Jerusalem on the great Pentecost (Ac 2:9), and the Christians of it are included among "the strangers of the dispersion," to whom Peter addressed his first Epistle (1Pe 1:1). Whether this couple were converted before Paul made their acquaintance, commentators are much divided.

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Original language & word study

31 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
εὑρών	heurōn	having found	G2147 →
τινα	tina	a certain	G5100 →
Ἰουδαῖον	Ioudaion	Jew	G2453 →
ὀνόματι	onomati	named	G3686 →
Ἀκύλαν,	Akulan	Aquila,	G207 →
Ποντικὸν	Pontikon	of Pontus	G4193 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
γένει,	genei	a native,	G1085 →
προσφάτως	prosphatōs	recently	G4373 →
ἐληλυθότα	elēluthota	having come	G2064 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰταλίας,	Italias	Italy,	G2482 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
Πρίσκιλλαν	Priskillan	Priscilla	G4252 →
γυναῖκα	gunaika	wife	G1135 →
αὐτοῦ,	autou	of him,	G846 →
διὰ	dia	because of	G1223 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
διατεταχέναι	diatetachenai	to have commanded	G1299 →
Κλαύδιον	Klaudion	Claudius	G2804 →
χωρίζεσθαι	chōrizesthai	to depart	G5563 →
πάντας	pantas	all	G3956 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
Ἰουδαίους	Ioudaious	Jews	G2453 →
ἀπὸ	apo	out of	G575 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
Ῥώμης,	Rhōmēs	Rome,	G4516 →
προσῆλθεν	prosēlthen	he came	G4334 →
αὐτοῖς·	autois	to them;	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Timothy 4:19
Greet Prisca and Aquila, as well as the household of Onesiphorus.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 16:19
  The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.
- Romans 16:3–4
  Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
- 2 Timothy 1:16–18
  May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
- Acts 18:26
  And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him in and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Through
Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
leads to
- Acts 21:10
  After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
- Luke 3:1
  In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
- 1 Kings 17:1–16
  Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in…
Through
Acts 18:26
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him in and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 12:21
  The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Acts