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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 28:23 - 28:23
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there came many - “considerable numbers”
into his lodging - The word denotes one’s place of stay as a guest (Phm 1:22), not “his own hired house,” mentioned in Act 28:30. Some Christian friends - possibly Aquila and Priscilla, who had returned to Rome (Rom 16:3), would be glad to receive him, though he would soon find himself more at liberty in a house of his own.
to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God - opening up the great spiritual principles of that kingdom in opposition to the contracted and secular views of it entertained by the Jews.
persuading them concerning Jesus - as the ordained and predicted Head of that kingdom.
out of the law ... and the prophets - drawing his materials and arguments from a source mutually acknowledged.
from morning till evening - “Who would not wish to have been present?” exclaims Bengel; but virtually we are present while listening to those Epistles which he dictated from his prison at Rome, and to his other epistolary expositions of Christian truth against the Jews.