Kisah Para Rasul 16:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Hal itu dilakukannya beberapa hari lamanya. Tetapi ketika Paulus tidak tahan lagi akan gangguan itu, ia berpaling dan berkata kepada roh itu: "Demi nama Yesus Kristus aku menyuruh engkau keluar dari perempuan ini." Seketika itu juga keluarlah roh itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Hal itu dilakukannya beberapa hari lamanya. Tetapi ketika Paulus tidak tahan lagi akan gangguan itu, ia berpaling dan berkata kepada roh itu: "Demi nama Yesus Kristus aku menyuruh engkau keluar dari perempuan ini." Seketika itu juga keluarlah roh itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka inilah diperbuatnya beberapa hari lamanya; tetapi Paulus berasa susah, lalu berpaling dan berkata kepada jin itu, "Dengan nama Yesus Kristus aku suruh engkau keluar daripadanya." Maka keluarlah ia dengan seketika itu juga.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ And it came to passe, as we went to prayer, a certayne damsell, possessed with a spirite of southsaying met vs: which brought her maisters much vantage with southsaying. ¹⁷ The same folowed Paul and vs, and cryed, saying: These men are the seruauntes of the most hye God, which shewe vnto vs the way of saluation. ¹⁸ And this dyd she many dayes. But Paul not content, turned about, & sayde to the spirite, I commaunde thee in the name of Iesu Christe, that thou come out of her. And he came out the same houre. ¹⁹ And when her maisters sawe that the hope of their gaynes was gone, they caught Paul & Silas, and drewe them into the market place, vnto the rulers, ²⁰ And brought them to the officers, saying: These men trouble our citie, being Iewes: ²¹ And preache ordinaunces, which are not lawfull for vs to receaue, neither to obserue, seeyng we are Romanes. ²² And the people ran agaynst them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes. ²³ And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into pryson, commaundyng the iayler of the pryson to kepe them diligently. ²⁴ Which when he had receaued such commaundement, thrust them into the inner pryson, and made their feete fast in the stockes.

Bible Verse Review
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being: Acts 14:13-15, Mark 1:25, Mark 1:26, Mark 1:34

I command: Acts 3:6, Acts 9:34, Acts 19:12-17, Mark 9:25, Mark 9:26, Mark 16:17, Luke 9:1, Luke 10:17-19, Colossians 2:15

Reciprocal: Matthew 9:22 - from Matthew 17:18 - rebuked Mark 3:12 - General Mark 5:8 - General Luke 4:35 - Jesus Luke 4:41 - Thou John 14:12 - the Acts 3:16 - his Acts 5:12 - by Acts 16:16 - possessed Acts 19:11 - General Acts 19:15 - General Romans 15:19 - mighty 1 Corinthians 5:4 - the name 1 Corinthians 9:1 - I not an

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this she did many days,.... As the apostle and his company passed to and from the oratory, being for that time at Lydia's house; she followed them, and repeated the above words. This she was suffered to do, time after time; not that the apostle and his friends wanted such a testimony, or that it was of any use to them; but that the expulsion of the evil spirit might be more manliest, and more taken notice of:

but Paul being grieved; at the unhappy condition the maid was in, being possessed with such a spirit: and that the people were so imposed upon and deluded by it; and that it should be thought that there was any combination and agreement between that and him:

turned; himself to her, who was behind him, she following him, as is said in the preceding verse; this is left out in the Syriac version:

and said to the spirit; or to that spirit, as the same version renders it; to the spirit of Python, or Apollo, or of divination, that was in the maid; the Ethiopic version reads, "and he said", "in", or "by the Holy Spirit"; being under a more than ordinary influence and impulse of his; but not the spirit by which he spake, but the spirit to which he spake, is here meant:

I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her, and he came out the same hour; this is an instance of that power which Christ gave to his apostles to cast out devils in his name, Matthew 10:1

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But Paul, being grieved - Being molested, troubled, offended. Paul was grieved, probably:

1. Because her presence was troublesome to him;
2. Because it might be said that he was in alliance with her, and that his pretensions were just like hers;
3. Because what she did was for the sake of gain, and was a base imposition;
4. Because her state was one of bondage and delusion, and it was proper to free her from this demoniacal possession; and,
5. Because the system under which she was acting was a part of a scheme of delusion and imposture, which had spread over a large portion of the pagan world, and which was then holding it in bondage.

Throughout the Roman empire the inspiration of the priestesses of Apollo was believed in, and temples were everywhere reared to perpetuate and celebrate the delusion. Against this extensive system of imposture and fraud Christianity must oppose itself; and this was a favorable instance to expose the delusion, and to show the power of the Christian religion over all the arts and powers of imposture. The mere fact that in a very few instances - of which this was one - they spoke the truth, did not make it improper for Paul to interpose. That fact would only tend to perpetuate the delusion, and to make his interposition more proper and necessary. The expulsion of the evil spirit would also afford a signal proof of the fact that the apostles were really from God a far better proof than her noisy and troublesome proclamation of it would furnish.

In the name of Jesus Christ - Or, by the authority of Jesus Christ. See the notes on Acts 3:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 16:18. Paul, being grieved — Probably for the reasons assigned above.

Turned-to the spirit — Not to the woman; she was only the organ by which the spirit acted.

I command thee, in the name of Jesus — Jesus is the Saviour; Satan is Abaddon and Apollyon, the destroyer. The sovereign Saviour says to the destroyer, Come out of her; and he came out in the same hour. Every circumstance of this case proves it to have been a real possession. We have already had several opportunities of remarking the great accuracy of St. Luke in his accounts of demoniacs: his education as a physician gave him advantages to detect imposture of this kind where it subsisted; but he sees none in this case. He speaks of the spirit and the damsel as distinct persons. The damsel had a spirit of divination. Paul turned to the spirit, and said, I command THEE to come out of HER; and he came out in the same hour. Had not St. Luke considered this as a real case of diabolic possession, he has made use of the most improper language he could choose; language and forms of speech calculated to deceive all his readers, and cause them to believe a lie. But it is impossible that the holy apostle could do so, because he was a good man; and it is not likely he could be deceived by a parcel of charlatans, because he was a wise man; and it would be absurd to suppose that, while he was under the influence of the Holy Spirit, he could be imposed on by the cunning of even the devil himself.