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Kisah Para Rasul 17:17

Karena itu di rumah ibadat ia bertukar pikiran dengan orang-orang Yahudi dan orang-orang yang takut akan Allah, dan di pasar setiap hari dengan orang-orang yang dijumpainya di situ.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Athens;   Gentiles;   Paul;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Marketplaces;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Synagogues;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Athens;   Market;   Thessalonica;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Areopagus;   Athens;   Paul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Thessalonians, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Disputation;   Ordination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Market-Place;   Synagogue;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Acts of the Apostles;   Proselytes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Athens;   Greece;   Jews in the New Testament;   Market Place;   Synagogue;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Achaia;   Epicureans;   Market, Marketplace;   Proselyte;   Thessalonians, First Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Arts;   Athens ;   Market, Market-Place ;   Market-Place;   Name ;   Proselyte;   Proselyte (2);   Simon Magus;   Street;   Synagogue;   Wisdom;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Athens ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Interesting facts about the bible;   Jason;   Proselyte;   Synagogue;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mars' Hill,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Athens;   Devout;   Market;   Philippi;   Proselyte;   Reason;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Athens, Ancient;   Diaspora;   Purity of Race;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 8;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Karena itu di rumah ibadat ia bertukar pikiran dengan orang-orang Yahudi dan orang-orang yang takut akan Allah, dan di pasar setiap hari dengan orang-orang yang dijumpainya di situ.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu berundinglah ia di dalam rumah sembahyang dengan orang-orang Yahudi dan segala orang yang beribadat, dan di pekan pun pada tiap-tiap hari dengan orang yang berjumpa dengan dia.

Contextual Overview

16 Whyle Paul wayted for them at Athens, his spirite was moued in hym, when he sawe the citie geue to worshippyng of idoles. 17 Therfore disputed he in the synagogue with the Iewes, and with the deuout persons, and in the market dayly with them that came vnto hym by chaunce. 18 Then certaine philosophers of the Epicures, and of the Stoickes disputed with hym. And some saide: What wyll this babler say? Other some, he seemeth to be a setter foorth of newe gods: because he preached vnto them Iesus, and the resurrection. 19 And they toke hym, and brought him into Marce streate, saying: Maye we not knowe what this newe doctrine wherof thou speakest is? 20 For thou bryngest certaine straunge thinges to our eares: We would knowe therfore what these thynges meane. 21 For all the Athenians and straungers which were there, gaue them selues to nothing els, but either to tell or to heare some newe thyng.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

disputed: Acts 17:2-4, Acts 14:1-4

devout: Acts 8:2, Acts 10:2, Acts 13:16

daily: Proverbs 1:20-22, Proverbs 8:1-4, Proverbs 8:34, Jeremiah 6:11, Matthew 5:1, Matthew 5:2, Mark 16:15, Luke 12:3, 2 Timothy 3:2, 2 Timothy 3:5

Reciprocal: Matthew 10:27 - that preach Matthew 20:3 - standing Luke 4:31 - taught Acts 4:20 - we cannot Acts 6:9 - there Acts 9:29 - disputed Acts 13:5 - in the Acts 17:4 - the devout Acts 18:4 - he Acts 19:8 - disputing 1 Thessalonians 2:2 - much

Cross-References

Genesis 17:3
And Abram fell on his face, & God talked with hym, saying:
Genesis 17:19
Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
Genesis 17:20
And as concernyng Ismael also I haue hearde thee: for I haue blessed him, and wyll make him fruitefull, and wyl multiplie him excedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I wyll make a great nation of hym.
Genesis 18:12
Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?
Genesis 21:6
But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.
Leviticus 9:24
And there came a fire out from before the Lorde, and consumed vpon the aulter the burnt offering & the fat: Whiche when all the people sawe, they gaue thankes, and fell on their faces.
Numbers 14:5
Then Moyses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the congregation of the chyldren of Israel.
Numbers 16:22
And they fell vpon their faces, and sayde: O God, the God of spirites of all fleshe, hath not one man sinned? Wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?
Numbers 16:45
Get you from among this congregation, that I may consume the quickly. And they fell vpon their faces.
Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell downe flat before the Lord euen as at the first time, & fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes I did neither eate bread nor drinke water, because of all your sinnes which ye sinned, in doyng wyckedly in the sight of the Lorde in that ye prouoked hym vnto wrath.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews,.... There being a synagogue of the Jews here, and there being many Jews settled in this place, hence we read in Jewish writings c of men going from Jerusalem to Athens, and from Athens to Jerusalem; and hence it may be accounted for, how many of the Athenian philosophers came to be acquainted with the books and sentiments of the Jews, from whom they borrowed may things; since there were so many that dwelt among them, and doubtless had for years past, as well as by their travels into Egypt: and a Jewish synagogue being here, the apostle went into it, according to his usual manner, and began with them, as he was wont to do, preaching the Gospel to the Jews first, and then unto the Gentiles: with them he disputed, not about idolatry, or the worship of many gods, to which they were not addicted; nor about the one true and living God, whom they knew and professed; but about the Son of God, about the Messiah, contending and proving that Jesus of Nazareth was he:

and with the devout persons; that is, with the Gentiles, who were proselytes to the Jewish religion, and worshipped the God of Israel with the Jews, in their synagogues, but knew nothing of Jesus Christ, and the way of salvation by him:

and in the market daily with them that met him; where there was a concourse of people; and where, after the apostle had been once or twice, the people came purposely to meet with him, and to hear his discourses, and reason with him about points in religion: the Syriac version renders it, "in the street"; and then the sense seems to be, that as he met persons in the street, day by day, as he walked along, he would stop and talk with them, about religious things, and about their idolatry, vanity, and superstition.

c Echa Rabbati, fol. 43. 3, 4. & 44. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore disputed he - Or reasoned. He engaged in an argument with them.

With the devout persons - Those worshipping God after the manner of the Jews. They were Jewish proselytes, who had renounced idolatry, but who had not been fully admitted to the privileges of the Jews. See the notes on Acts 10:2.

And in the market - In the forum. It was not only the place where provisions were sold, but was also a place of great public concourse. In this place the philosophers were not infrequently found engaged in public discussion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 17:17. Disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews — Proving that Jesus was the Messiah: and with the devout persons, probably heathens, proselyted to the Jewish religion. And in the market: I suppose the αγορα here means some such place as our exchange, where people of business usually met, and where the philosophers conversed and reasoned. The agora was probably like the Roman forum, and like places of public resort in all countries, where people of leisure assembled to converse, hear the news, &c.


 
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