Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Spake boldly (eparrhsiazeto). Imperfect middle, kept on at it for three months. Cf. same word in Acts 18:26.
Persuading (peiqwn). Present active conative participle of peiqw, trying to persuade (Acts 28:23). Paul's idea of the Kingdom of God was the church of God which he (Jesus, God's Son) had purchased with his own blood (Acts 20:28, calling Christ God). Nowhere else had Paul apparently been able to speak so long in the synagogue without interruption unless it was so at Corinth. These Jews were already interested ( 18:30).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 19:8:
Acts 13:5
Acts 13:43
Acts 18:6
Acts 18:19
Acts 19:10
Acts 20:7
Hebrews 12:5
Revelation 2:1
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