"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects): The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews.Ross, Mary, Lady
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"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects): The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews.
Ross, Mary, Lady
Bible stories, English -- New Testament; Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jews -- History
We have said that St. Paul began his Third Apostolic Journey by going
again through Galatia and Phrygia: then, having passed through the
"upper coasts" of Asia Minor, he came again to Ephesus, after Apollos
had gone to Corinth. At Ephesus St. Paul now found certain disciples,
about twelve men, who had been taught by Apollos, before Aquila and
Priscilla had expounded to him the way of God more perfectly: to these
men St. Paul said, "Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?
And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be
any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye
baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism." Then St. Paul explained
to them that John the Baptist came to call all men to repentance, and
that his baptism was only meant to prepare the way for that of Jesus,
and to lead all men to believe in Him, and be baptized in the way
which He should appoint. "When they heard this, they were baptized in
the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon
them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and
prophesied." St. Paul, anxious to convert the Jews, spake boldly in
the synagogue for three months, "disputing and persuading the things
concerning the kingdom of God." But, as usual, many of the Jews were
determined not to believe; and not only rejected the truth themselves,
but spake evil of it, and abused it to the multitude, so as to try and
prevent their believing it either. St. Paul, seeing this, would teach
no longer in the synagogue; and "departed from them, and separated the
disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus"; that is, he
assembled all who were willing to listen to him, in a large room or
"school"--a name given to those buildings or rooms used for
instruction in any kind of knowledge. In the school of Tyrannus, who
was a teacher of some science, and probably a convert, St. Paul now
preached to all who would come and listen. "And this continued by the
space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the
word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. And God wrought special
miracles by the hands of Paul: so that from his body were brought unto
the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from
them, and the evil spirits went out of them." They were healed by
merely touching those articles which the Apostle had touched. Such a
wonderful exercise of miraculous power must have drawn many to listen
to the teaching of one, who did such things; and no doubt many, who so
listened, became true Christians.
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