Act 28:23 | JFB | STEP | 23-24. there came many-- "considerable numbers" into his lodging-- The word denotes one's place of stay as a guest (Phm 22), not "his own hired house," mentioned in . Some Christian friends--possibly Aquila and Priscilla, who had returned to Rome ( ), 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.

‏ Acts 28:23

23-24. there came many--"considerable numbers"

into his lodging--The word denotes one's place of stay as a guest (Phm 22), not "his own hired house," mentioned in Ac 28:30. Some Christian friends--possibly Aquila and Priscilla, who had returned to Rome (Ro 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.