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Acts 18:11 KJV
Acts · chapter 18 · verse 11
And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.Acts 18:11 · King James Version
Acts 18:11 in context
9Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
10For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
11And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
13Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- continuedkathizōto make to sit down, to set, appoint, to confer a kingdom on one, intransitively, to sit…G2523 →
- teachingdidaskōto teach, to hold discourse with others in order to instruct them, deliver didactic…G1321 →
- monthsmēna month, the time of the new moon, new moonG3376 →
- amongenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- yeareniautosa year, in a wider sense, for some fixed definite period of timeG1763 →
- wordlogosof speech, a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea, what someone…G3056 →
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Here we are told, I. That Paul changed his quarters. Christ directed his disciples, when he sent them forth, not to go from house to house (Luk 10:7), but there might be occasion to do it, as Paul did here.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-11