Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 18, verses 22-28
18 Afterwards passing from city to city, he strengtheneth the disciples, 24 Apollos, being more perfectly instructed by Aquila and Priscilla, 28 preacheth Christ with great efficacyJohn, Chapter 12, verses 36-47
23 He foretelleth his death, 37 The Jews are generally blinded, 42 yet many chief rulers believe, but do not confess him, 44 therefore Jesus calleth earnestly for confession of faith12
12:36 The children of light - The children of God, wise, holy, happy.
12:37 Though he had done so many miracles before them - So that they could not but see them.
12:38 The arm of the Lord - The power of God manifested by Christ, in his preaching, miracles, and work of redemption. Isa 53:1.
12:39 Therefore now they could not believe - That is, by the just judgment of God, for their obstinacy and wilful resistance of the truth, they were at length so left to the hardness of their hearts, that neither the miracles nor doctrines of our Lord could make any impression upon them.
12:40 Isa 6:10; Mat 13:14; Act 28:26.
12:41 When he saw his glory - Christ's, Isa 6:1, etc And it is there expressly said tobe the glory of the Lord, Jehovah, the Supreme God.
12:44 Jesus said with a loud voice - This which follows to the end of the chapter, is with St. John the epilogue of our Lord's public discourses, and a kind of recapitulation of them.Believeth not on me - Not on me alone, but also on him that sent me: because the Father hath sent the Son, and because he and the Father are one.
12:45 And he that seeth me - By the eye of faith.
12:47 I judge him not - Not now: for I am not come to judge the world.See, Christ came to save even them that finally perish! Even these are a part of that world, which he lived and died to save.
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18:22 And landing at Cesarea, he went up - Immediately to Jerusalem; and saluted the Church - Eminently so called, being the mother Church of Christian believers: and having kept the feast there, he went down from thence to Antioch.
18:23 He went over the country of Galatia and Phrygia - It is supposed, spending about four years therein, including the time he stayed at Ephesus.
18:24 An eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures - Of the Old Testament. Every talent may be of use in the kingdom of God, if joined with the knowledge of the Scriptures and fervour of spirit.
18:25 This man had been instructed - Though not perfectly, in the way of the Lord - In the doctrine of Christ. Knowing only the baptism of John - Only what John taught those whom he baptized, namely, to repent and believe in a Messiah shortly to appear.
18:26 He spake - Privately; and taught publicly. Probably he returned to live at Alexandria, soon after he had been baptized by John; and so had no opportunity of being fully acquainted with the doctrines of the Gospel, as delivered by Christ and his apostles. And explained to him the way of God more perfectly - He who knows Christ, is able to instruct even those that are mighty in the Scriptures.
18:27 Who greatly helped through grace - It is through grace only that any gift of any one is profitable to another. Them that had believed - Apollos did not plant, but water. This was the peculiar gift which he had received. And he was better able to convince the Jews, than to convert the heathens.