{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[],"2":[],"3":[],"4":[{"id":"henry.JHN.11.52.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 11:52","href":"/jhn/11/#v52-henry","text":"Acts xvii. 4","snippet":"Some understand it of the children of God that were then in being, scattered abroad in the Gentile world, devout men of every nation (Acts ii. 5), that feared God (Acts x. 2), and worshipped him (Acts xvii. 4), proselytes of the gate, who served the God of Abraham, but submitted not to the ceremonial law of Moses, persons that had a savour of natural religion, but were dispersed in the nations, had no solemn assemblies of …"},{"id":"ryle.JHN.12.20.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 12:20","href":"/jhn/12/#v20-ryle","text":"Acts xvii. 4","snippet":"So in Acts xvii. 4, we read of \" devout \" or \" worshipping \" Greeks."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.12.20.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 12:20","href":"/jhn/12/#v20-westcott","text":"Acts xvii. 4","snippet":"Comp. ch. vii. 35 ; Acts xvii. 4, (viii. 27, x. 1)."}],"5":[],"6":[],"7":[{"id":"bengel.JHN.19.15-19.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 19:15–19","href":"/jhn/19/#v15-bengel","text":"Acts xvii. 7","snippet":"They deny Jesus to such a degree as to deny the Christ altogether: Acts xvii. 7, The Jews in Thessalonica say against Jason, etc., “'These all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.” ... wrote) not caring what would be likely to please the Jews.— Inoods …"}],"8":[],"9":[],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[],"13":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.11.1.3","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 11:1","href":"/jhn/11/#v1-ryle","text":"Acts xvii. 13","snippet":"That \" from \" Bethany means exactly what we render it, is clear from Acts xvii. 13 ; Heb. xiii. 24."}],"14":[],"15":[],"16":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.2.17.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 2:17","href":"/jhn/2/#v17-ryle","text":"Acts xvii. 16","snippet":"(Exodus xxxii. 19 ; Numbers xxv. 11 ; Acts xvii. 16.)"}],"17":[],"18":[],"19":[],"20":[],"21":[],"22":[],"23":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.4.22.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 4:22","href":"/jhn/4/#v22-westcott","text":"Acts xvii. 23","snippet":"Compare Acts xvii. 23 ...."}],"24":[],"25":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.4.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:4","href":"/jhn/1/#v4-henry","text":"Acts xvii. 25","snippet":"It was the Word of God that produced the moving creatures that had life, Gen. i. 20; Acts xvii. 25."}],"26":[],"27":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.1.4.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 1:4","href":"/jhn/1/#v4-calvin","text":"Acts 17:27","snippet":"Thus Paul charges us not to seek God at a distance, because he makes himself to be felt within us, (Acts 17:27."}],"28":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.1.4.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 1:4","href":"/jhn/1/#v4-calvin","text":"Acts 17:28","snippet":"In a word, what Paul ascribes to God, that in him we are, and move, and live, (Acts 17:28,) John declares to be accomplished by the gracious agency of the Speech; so that it is God who gives us life, but it is by the eternal Speech"},{"id":"calvin.JHN.5.17.3","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 5:17","href":"/jhn/5/#v17-calvin","text":"Acts 17:28","snippet":"… of the world was completed, but the administration of it is still continued, and God incessantly worketh in maintaining and preserving the order of it; as Paul informs us, that in him we live, and move, and are, (Acts 17:28;) and David informs us, that all things stand so long as the Spirit of God upholds them, and that they fail as soon as he withdraws his support, (Psalm 104:29."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.1.3.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 1:3","href":"/jhn/1/#v3-westcott","text":"Acts xvii. 28","snippet":"Compare the use of in Him, Col. i. 16, 17 ; Acts xvii. 28."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.14.6.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 14:6","href":"/jhn/14/#v6-westcott","text":"Acts xvii. 28","snippet":"but by (through) me] It is only through Christ that we can, though in God (Acts xvii. 28), apprehend God as the Father, and so approach the Father."}],"29":[],"30":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.15.22.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 15:22","href":"/jhn/15/#v22-westcott","text":"Acts xvii. 30","snippet":"They have nothing which they can even plead in their own defence as in times of ignorance (1 Pet. 1-14; Acts xvii. 30; Rom. iii. 25)."}],"31":[{"id":"bengel.JHN.5.22.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 5:22","href":"/jhn/5/#v22-bengel","text":"Acts xvii. 31","snippet":"neither) The Father does not judge alone, nor without the Son: yet He does judge; ver. 45, “Do not think I will accuse you to the Father ;” Acts xvii. 31, “ He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained ;” Rom. iii. 6, “God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?"},{"id":"bengel.JHN.5.26-27.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 5:26–27","href":"/jhn/5/#v26-bengel","text":"Acts xvii. 31","snippet":"… men: Dan. vii. 18, etc., “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days—and there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom.” Acts xvii. 31; Heb. ii. 5, etc., “ Unto the angels hath He not put in subjection the world to come—but—‘ what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou ..."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.5.21-22.2","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 5:21–22","href":"/jhn/5/#v21-ryle","text":"Acts xvii. 31","snippet":"Thus it is written, — '• He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained,\" (Acts xvii. 31."}],"32":[{"id":"henry.JHN.5.21.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 5:21","href":"/jhn/5/#v21-henry","text":"Acts xvii. 32","snippet":"It was therefore ridiculed at Athens as an absurd thing, Acts xvii. 32."}],"33":[],"34":[]}}