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Resullerin 20:36
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he kneeled: Acts 7:60, Acts 21:5, 2 Chronicles 6:13, Daniel 6:10, Luke 22:41, Ephesians 3:14, Philippians 4:6
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:54 - kneeling Psalms 95:6 - kneel Acts 9:40 - and kneeled
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when he had thus spoken,.... And finished his speech to the elders: he kneeled down: upon the floor, which was a prayer gesture, used by Christ, and others; for, it seems, the disuse of kneeling in prayer, between the passover and pentecost, which Tertullian k, and other writers, speak of, had not yet obtained, which was in memory of Christ's resurrection from the dead, for this was now the time: see Acts 20:6 and
prayed with them all: and no doubt for them all; the Syriac version renders it, "and he prayed, and all the men with him"; the apostle, and the elders, joined together in prayer.
k De Corona Militis, c. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He kneeled down - The usual attitude of prayer. It is the proper posture of a suppliant. It indicates reverence and humility; and is represented in the Scriptures as the usual attitude of devotion, 2 Chronicles 6:13; Daniel 6:10; Luke 22:41; Acts 7:60; Acts 9:40; Acts 21:5; Romans 11:4; Philippians 2:10; Ephesians 3:14; Mark 1:40.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 20:36. He kneeled down and prayed — Kneeling is the proper posture of a supplicant, it argues at once both humility and submission; and he who prays to God should endeavour to feel the utmost measures of both.
