the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Acts 19:20
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Because of this, God's message spread to the far corners of every pasture around there.
So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.
So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.
So the word of the Lord was increased very greatly and was full of power.
Thus with might the word of the Lord increased and prevailed.
So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.
In this way the Lord's message flourished and prevailed.
So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
So powerfully did the word of God grow and prevail.
Thus mightily did the Lord's Message spread and triumph!
So mightily grew the word of God, and preuailed.
So with might, the Word of the Lord increased and was strong.
So mightely grewe ye worde of the LORDE, and preuayled.
So the word of the Lord [concerning eternal salvation through faith in Christ] was growing greatly and prevailing.
So mightily grew the word of the Lord and prevailed.
So the word of the Lord grew and prevailed mightily.
So myghtely grewe ye worde of god and prevayled.
So, by the power of the Lord, the word kept spreading and growing stronger.
So mightily grew the word of God, and prevailed.
so powerfully was the word of God increasing and prevailing.
So in a powerful way the word of the Lord kept spreading and growing.
In this way the word of the Lord continued to grow in power and to prevail.
So the word of the Lord powerfully continued to spread and prevail.
So the Lord's message spread and became even more powerful.
Thus the message about the Lord continued in a powerful way to grow in influence.
So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.
So the worde of God grewe mightily, and preuailed.
So mightily grew the faith of God and greatly increased in numbers.
So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
In that way the word of the Lord kept spreading and triumphing.Acts 6:7; 12:24;">[xr]
And thus with great power prevailed and increased the faith of Aloha.
And thus with great power was the faith of God strengthened and increased.
So the message about the Lord spread widely and had a powerful effect.
The Word of the Lord became well-known.
So mightily grew the word of the Lord and prevailed.
So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.
Thus, with might, the Lord's word, was growing and prevailing.
So mightily grew the word of God and was confirmed.
So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
In this way the word of the Lord was growing in power and was prevailing.
So myghtyly grew the word of God, and preuayled.
This is how the word of the Lord was spreading in a powerful way, causing more and more people to believe.
So the word of the Lord was growing and prevailing mightily.
In this powerful way the word of the Lord kept spreading and growing stronger.
so strongli the word of God wexide, and was confermyd.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Acts 6:7, Acts 12:24, Isaiah 55:11, 2 Thessalonians 3:1
Reciprocal: Exodus 7:12 - but Aaron's Leviticus 13:52 - burn Leviticus 19:31 - General Psalms 98:1 - his right Psalms 110:3 - day Mark 4:31 - is less than Acts 9:35 - all
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So mightily grew the word of God, and prevailed. Over conjuring books, conjurers themselves, yea, even the devils; the power of God going along with it, many were converted; which is meant by the increase of it, and were delivered from the power of darkness, out of the hands of Satan, and translated into the kingdom of Christ. Beza's ancient copy reads, the "faith" of God; and the Syriac version, "faith in God".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
So mightily grew the word of God - So powerfully. It had such efficacy and power in this wicked city. That power must have been mighty which would thus make them willing not only to cease to practice imposition, but to give up all hopes of future gains, and to destroy their property. On this instructive narrative we may remark:
(1) That religion has power to break the hold of sinners on unjust and dishonest means of living.
(2) That those who have been engaged in an unchristian and dishonorable practice will abandon it when they become Christians.
(3) That their abhorrence of their former course will be, and ought to be, expressed as publicly as was the offence.
(4) That the evil practice will be abandoned at any sacrifice, however great. The question will be, what is right; not what will it cost. Property, in the view of a converted man, is nothing when compared with a good conscience.
(5) This conduct of those who had used curious arts shows us what ought to be done by those who have been engaged in any evil course of life and who are then converted. If what they did when they were converted was right - and who can doubt it? - it settles a great principle on which young converts should act. If a man has been engaged in the slave-trade, he will abandon it, and his duty will not be to sell his ship to one who he knows will continue the traffic. His property should be withdrawn from the business publicly, either by being destroyed, or by being converted to a useful purpose. If a man has been a distiller of ardent spirits as a drink, his duty will be to forsake his evil course. Nor will it be his duty to sell his distillery to one who will continue the business, but to withdraw his property from it publicly, either by destroying it, or converting it to some useful purpose. If a man has been engaged in the traffic in ardent spirits, his duty is not to sell his stock to those who will continue the sale of the poison, but to withdraw it from public use - converting it to some useful purpose, if he can; if not, by destroying it. All that has ever been said by money-loving distillers, or venders of ardent spirits, about the loss which they would sustain by abandoning the business, might have been said by these practitioners of curious arts in Ephesus. And if the excuses of rumselling people are valid, their conduct was folly; and they should either have continued the business of practicing “curious arts” after they were converted, or should have sold their “books” to those who would have continued it. For assuredly it was not worse to practice jugglery and fortune-telling than it is to destroy the bodies and souls of people by the traffic in ardent spirits. And yet, how few people there are in Christian lands who practice on the principle of these honest, but comparatively unenlightened men at Ephesus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 19:20. So mightily grew the word of God, and prevailed. — The Codex Bezae reads this verse thus: "So mightily grew the word of the Lord, and prevailed; and the faith of God increased and multiplied." It is probable that it was about this time that St. Paul had that conflict which he mentions, 1 Corinthians 15:32: If I after the manner of men, have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, &c. See the note there. It means some severe trials not here mentioned, unless we may suppose him to refer to the ferocious insurrection headed by Demetrius, mentioned at the end of this chapter. 1 Corinthians 15:32- :
