Galatia 1:14

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dan di dalam agama Yahudi aku jauh lebih maju dari banyak teman yang sebaya dengan aku di antara bangsaku, sebagai orang yang sangat rajin memelihara adat istiadat nenek moyangku.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan di dalam agama Yahudi aku jauh lebih maju dari banyak teman yang sebaya dengan aku di antara bangsaku, sebagai orang yang sangat rajin memelihara adat istiadat nenek moyangku.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
dan majulah aku di dalam agama Yahudi lebih daripada kebanyakan orang yang sebaya dengan aku, sebab teramat sangat usaha atas segala adat-istiadat nenek moyangku.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Do I nowe perswade men, or God? Other do I seke to please men? For yf I shoulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christe. ¹¹ I certifie you brethren, that the Gospell which was preached of me, was not after man. ¹² For I neither receaued it of man, neither was I taught [it] but by the reuelation of Iesus Christe. ¹³ For ye haue hearde of my conuersation in tyme past in the Iewes religion, howe that beyonde measure I persecuted the Churche of God, & spoyled it: ¹⁴ And profited in the Iewes religion, aboue many of my companions in mine owne nation, beyng a very feruent maynteyner of the traditions of my fathers. ¹⁵ But when it pleased God, which seperated me from my mothers wombe, & called [me] by his grace, ¹⁶ To reueale his sonne by me, that I shoulde by the Gospell preache hym among the Heathen: immediatly I communed not with fleshe and blood: ¹⁷ Neither returned to Hierusalem, to them which were Apostles before me: but went my wayes into Arabia, and came agayne vnto Damascus. ¹⁸ Then after three yeres, I returned to Hierusale to see Peter, and abode with hym fyfteene dayes. ¹⁹ But other of the Apostles sawe I none, saue Iames the Lordes brother.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

profited: Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 57:12

equals: Gr. equals in years

being: Acts 22:3, Acts 26:5, Acts 26:9, Philippians 3:4-6

traditions: Jeremiah 15:2, Matthew 15:2, Matthew 15:3, Matthew 15:6, Mark 7:3-13, Colossians 2:8, 1 Peter 1:8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:16 - General Jeremiah 9:14 - which Luke 11:39 - Now Luke 18:12 - fast John 16:2 - the time Acts 21:20 - and they Romans 10:2 - that they Philippians 3:6 - zeal 2 Timothy 1:3 - whom

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without fourme, and was voyde: & darknes [was] vpon the face of the deepe, and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:3
And God sayde, let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis 1:4
And God sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes.

Genesis 1:6
And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters.

Genesis 1:7
And God made the firmament, and set the diuision betwene the waters which [were] vnder the firmament, and the waters that [were] aboue the firmament: and it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.

Genesis 1:9
And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde.

Genesis 1:14
And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And profited in the Jews' religion,.... Or "in Judaism"; and the more he did so, or was versed in, and wedded to their principles, the more violent a persecutor he was. He was under a very considerable master, Gamaliel, a Rabbi of great note among the Jews; and he himself a youth of uncommon natural abilities, so that his proficiency in Jewish learning was very great; even, as he says,

above many my equals in mine own nation: not proselytes in other nations, but such as were natives of his own country: or were "in his own kindred", his near relations, who were his contemporaries, of the same age with him; and very modestly he says "many", not "all":

being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers: he had a zeal, but, not according to knowledge; and a greater degree of it than the rest of his countrymen; and that not so much for the written law delivered to his fathers, as for the oral law, the traditions and customs of his ancestors; which had been handed down, as they pretended, from one to another, and were now swelled to an almost infinite bulk; and mean the traditions of the elders, condemned by Christ, as making void the commandments of God: now his close attachment to, and eager zeal for these traditions, put him upon using more violent measures in persecuting the saints, and further off from the Gospel of Christ: and now from this account of himself it is a clear point, that during this period of his life he could never have received the Gospel from men, which is his view in giving it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And profited - Made advances and attainments. Paul made advances not only in the knowledge of the Jewish religion, but he also surpassed others in his zeal in defending its interests. He had had better advantages than most of his countrymen; and by his great zeal and characteristic ardor he had been able to make higher attainments than most others had done.

Above many my equals - Margin, Equal in years. This is the true sense of the original. It means that he surpassed those of the same age with himself. Possibly there may be a reference here to those of the same age who attended with him on the instructions of Gamaliel.

Being more exceedingly zealous - More studious of; more ardently attached to them; more anxious to distinguish himself in attainments in the religion in which he was brought up. All this is fully sustained by all that we know of the character of Paul, as at all times a man of singular and eminent zeal in all that he undertook.

Of the traditions of my fathers - Or the traditions of the Jews; see the note at Matthew 15:2. A large part of the doctrines of the Pharisees depended on mere tradition; and Paul doubtless made this a special matter of study, and was particularly tenacious in regard to it. It was to be learned, from the very nature of it, only by oral teaching, since there is no evidence that it was then recorded. Subsequently, these traditions were recorded in the Mishna, and are found in the Jewish writings. But in the time of Paul they were to be learned as they were handed down from one to another; and hence, the utmost diligence was requisite to obtain a knowledge of them. Paul does not here say that he was zealous then for the practice of the new religion, nor for the study of the Bible. His object in going to Jerusalem and studying at the feet of Gamaliel was doubtless to obtain a knowledge of the traditions of the sect of the Pharisees. Had he been studying the Bible all that time, he would have kept from the fiery zeal which he evinced in persecuting the church, and would, if he had studied it right, been saved from much trouble of conscience afterward.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. And profited in the Jews' religion — The apostle does not mean that he became more exemplary in the love and practice of the pure law of God than any of his countrymen, but that he was more profoundly skilled in the traditions of the fathers than most of his fellow students were, or, as the word συνηλικιωτας may mean his contemporaries.