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Selected Verse: Acts 8:6 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 8:6 |
Strong Concordance |
And [5037] the people [3793] with one accord [3661] gave heed [4337] unto those things which Philip [5376] spake [3004] [5259], hearing [1722] [191] [846] and [2532] seeing [991] the miracles [4592] which [3739] he did [4160]. |
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King James |
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. |
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] |
| the people with one accord gave heed to . . . Philip--the way being prepared perhaps by the fruits of our Lord's sojourn, as He Himself seems to intimate (see on Joh 4:31-38). But "we may mark the providence of God in sending a Grecian, or a Hellenistic Jew, to a people who from national antipathy would have been unlikely to attend to a native of Judea" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
With one accord - Unitedly, or with one mined. Great multitudes of them did it.
Gave heed - Paid attention to; embraced.
Hearing - Hearing what he said. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The people with one accord gave heed - He had fixed their attention, not only with the gravity and importance of the matter of his preaching, but also by the miracles which he did. |
31 [1161] In [1722] the mean [3342] while his disciples [3101] prayed [2065] him [846], saying [3004], Master [4461], eat [5315].
32 But [1161] he said [2036] unto them [846], I [1473] have [2192] meat [1035] to eat [5315] that [3739] ye [5210] know [1492] not [3756] of [1492].
33 Therefore [3767] said [3004] the disciples [3101] one to another [4314] [240], Hath [5342] any man [3387] brought [5342] him [846] ought to eat [5315]?
34 Jesus [2424] saith [3004] unto them [846], My [1699] meat [1033] is [2076] to [2443] do [4160] the will [2307] of him that sent [3992] me [3165], and [2532] to finish [5048] his [846] work [2041].
35 Say [3004] not [3756] ye [5210], There [3754] are [2076] yet [2089] four months [5072], and [2532] then cometh [2064] harvest [2326]? behold [2400], I say [3004] unto you [5213], Lift up [1869] your [5216] eyes [3788], and [2532] look on [2300] the fields [5561]; for [3754] they are [1526] white [3022] already [2235] to [4314] harvest [2326].
36 And [2532] he that reapeth [2325] receiveth [2983] wages [3408], and [2532] gathereth [4863] fruit [2590] unto [1519] life [2222] eternal [166]: that [2443] both [2532] he that soweth [4687] and [2532] he that reapeth [2325] may rejoice [5463] together [3674].
37 And [1063] herein [1722] [5129] is [2076] that saying [3056] true [228], [3754] One [243] soweth [2076] [4687], and [2532] another [243] reapeth [2325].
38 I [1473] sent [649] you [5209] to reap [2325] that whereon [3739] ye [5210] bestowed [2872] no [3756] labour [2872]: other men [243] laboured [2872], and [2532] ye [5210] are entered [1525] into [1519] their [846] labours [2873].