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Selected Verse: Acts 28:22 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 28:22 |
King James |
But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
we desire--"deem it proper"
to hear of thee what thou thinkest--what are thy sentiments, views, &c. The apparent freedom from prejudice here expressed may have arisen from a prudent desire to avoid endangering a repetition of those dissensions about Christianity to which, probably, SUETONIUS alludes, and which had led to the expulsion of the Jews under Claudius [HUMPHRY]. See on Act 18:2. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
What thou thinkest - What your belief is; or what are the doctrines of Christians respecting the Messiah.
This sect - The sect of Christians.
Spoken against - Particularly by Jews. This was the case then, and, to a great extent, is the case still. It has been the common lot of the followers of Christ to be spoken "against." Compare Act 24:5. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
We desire (ἀξιοῦμεν)
Rather, we think it. Compare Act 15:38.
Sect
See on heresies, Pe2 2:1. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| This sect we know is every where spoken against - This is no proof at all of a bad cause, but a very probable mark of a good one. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For as concerning this sect - See the note on Act 24:14. A saying of Justin Martyr casts some light on this saying of the Jews: he asserts that the Jews not only cursed them in their synagogues, but they sent out chosen men from Jerusalem, to acquaint the world, and particularly the Jews everywhere, that the Christians were an atheistical and wicked sect, which should be detested and abhorred by all mankind. Justin Martyr, Dial. p. 234. |
2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: