Acts 19:11

THE MESSAGE

God did powerful things through Paul, things quite out of the ordinary. The word got around and people started taking pieces of clothing—handkerchiefs and scarves and the like—that had touched Paul's skin and then touching the sick with them. The touch did it—they were healed and whole.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands,

King James Version (1611)
And God wrought speciall miracles by the hands of Paul:

King James Version
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

English Standard Version
And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

New American Standard Bible
God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

New Century Version
God used Paul to do some very special miracles.

Amplified Bible
God was doing extraordinary and unusual miracles by the hands of Paul,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

Legacy Standard Bible
And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

Berean Standard Bible
God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,

Contemporary English Version
God gave Paul the power to work great miracles.

Complete Jewish Bible
God did extraordinary miracles through Sha'ul.

Darby Translation
And God wrought no ordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

Easy-to-Read Version
God used Paul to do some very special miracles.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And God wrought no small miracles by the handes of Paul,

George Lamsa Translation
And God wrought great miracles by the hands of Paul:

Good News Translation
God was performing unusual miracles through Paul.

Lexham English Bible
And God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

Literal Translation
And God did uncommon works of power through the hands of Paul,

American Standard Version
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

Bible in Basic English
And God did special works of power by the hands of Paul:

Hebrew Names Version
God worked special miracles by the hands of Sha'ul,

International Standard Version
God continued to do extraordinary miracles by Paul's hands.Mark 16:20; Acts 14:3;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And great power-works wrought Aloha by the hand of Paulos;

Murdock Translation
And God wrought very great miracles by the hand of Paul:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And God wrought speciall miracles by the handes of Paul.

English Revised Version
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

World English Bible
God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul,

Weymouth's New Testament
God also brought about extraordinary miracles through Paul's instrumentality.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And God dide vertues not smale bi the hoond of Poul,

Update Bible Version
And God did special miracles by the hands of Paul:

Webster's Bible Translation
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

New English Translation
God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul's hands,

New King James Version
Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul,

New Living Translation
God gave Paul the power to perform unusual miracles.

New Life Bible
God used Paul to do powerful special works.

New Revised Standard
God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mighty works, also, not the ordinary, God was working through the hands of Paul;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God wrought by the hand of Paul more than common miracles.

Revised Standard Version
And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And god wrought no small miracles by the hondes of Paul:

Young's Literal Translation
mighty works also -- not common -- was God working through the hands of Paul,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And God wroughte no small miracles by the handes of Paul,

Mace New Testament (1729)
the miracles which God wrought by the ministry of Paul being of such an extraordinary nature, that by applying the handkerchiefs,

Simplified Cowboy Version
God did some mighty powerful things through Paul while he was there.

Contextual Overview

⁸Paul then went straight to the meeting place. He had the run of the place for three months, doing his best to make the things of the kingdom of God real and convincing to them. But then resistance began to form as some of them began spreading evil rumors through the congregation about the Christian way of life. So Paul left, taking the disciples with him, and set up shop in the school of Tyrannus, holding class there daily. He did this for two years, giving everyone in the province of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, ample opportunity to hear the Message of the Master. ¹¹God did powerful things through Paul, things quite out of the ordinary. The word got around and people started taking pieces of clothing—handkerchiefs and scarves and the like—that had touched Paul's skin and then touching the sick with them. The touch did it—they were healed and whole.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 5:12, Acts 14:3, Acts 15:12, Acts 16:18, Mark 16:17-20, John 14:12, Romans 15:18, Romans 15:19, Galatians 3:5, Hebrews 2:4

Reciprocal: Matthew 8:15 - touched Matthew 14:36 - only Matthew 15:30 - great Mark 3:10 - pressed Luke 5:17 - power Acts 5:15 - they brought Acts 28:8 - laid 1 Corinthians 12:9 - the gifts 2 Corinthians 13:8 - General Galatians 2:8 - the same

Cross-References

Genesis 19:29
And that's the story: When God destroyed the Cities of the Plain, he was mindful of Abraham and first got Lot out of there before he blasted those cities off the face of the Earth.

2 Kings 6:18
When the Arameans attacked, Elisha prayed to God , "Strike these people blind!" And God struck them blind, just as Elisha said.

Ecclesiastes 10:15
A decent day's work so fatigues fools That they can't find their way back to town.

Jeremiah 2:36
"You think it's just a small thing, don't you, to try out another sin-project when the first one fails? But Egypt will leave you in the lurch the same way that Assyria did. You're going to walk away from there wringing your hands. I, God , have blacklisted those you trusted. You'll get not a lick of help from them."

Acts 13:11
Barnabas, Saul, and Doctor Know-It-All The congregation in Antioch was blessed with a number of prophet-preachers and teachers: Barnabas, Simon, nicknamed Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, an advisor to the ruler Herod, Saul. One day as they were worshiping God—they were also fasting as they waited for guidance—the Holy Spirit spoke: "Take Barnabas and Saul and commission them for the work I have called them to do." So they commissioned them. In that circle of intensity and obedience, of fasting and praying, they laid hands on their heads and sent them off. Sent off on their new assignment by the Holy Spirit, Barnabas and Saul went down to Seleucia and caught a ship for Cyprus. The first thing they did when they put in at Salamis was preach God's Word in the Jewish meeting places. They had John along to help out as needed. They traveled the length of the island, and at Paphos came upon a Jewish wizard who had worked himself into the confidence of the governor, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man not easily taken in by charlatans. The wizard's name was Bar-Jesus. He was as crooked as a corkscrew. The governor invited Barnabas and Saul in, wanting to hear God's Word firsthand from them. But Dr. Know-It-All (that's the wizard's name in plain English) stirred up a ruckus, trying to divert the governor from becoming a believer. But Saul (or Paul), full of the Holy Spirit and looking him straight in the eye, said, "You bag of wind, you parody of a devil—why, you stay up nights inventing schemes to cheat people out of God. But now you've come up against God himself, and your game is up. You're about to go blind—no sunlight for you for a good long stretch." He was plunged immediately into a shadowy mist and stumbled around, begging people to take his hand and show him the way.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul. For the confirmation of the doctrine which he preached, and of his mission, as an apostle; and these were not any sort of miracles, common and vulgar ones, and much less things of chance, and what were merely accidental, as the word may signify; but they were rare and uncommon ones, and in which there was a visible display of the power of God; to whom as the efficient cause they are ascribed, the apostle being only an instrument God made use of.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Special miracles - Miracles that were remarkable; that were not common, or that were very unusual (οὐ τὰς τυχών ou tas tuchōn). This expression is Classical Greek. Thus, Longinus says of Moses that he was no common man - οὐχ ̓ ὁ τύχων ἀνήρ ouch ho tuchōn anēr.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 19:11. God wrought special miracles — Δυναμεις τε ου τας τυχαυσας, Miracles of no ordinary kind, i.e. extraordinary miracles.