Acts 13:1-3
PAUL AND BARNABAS ON THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS. Acts 13:1 Barnabas and Saul delegated as missionaries:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL AND BARNABAS ON THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS. Acts 13:1 Barnabas and Saul delegated as missionaries:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THERE WERE IN THE CHURCH THAT WAS AT ANTIOCH CERTAIN PROPHETS AND TEACHERS; AS, BARNABAS, AND SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER, AND LUCIUS OF CYRENE, AND MANAEN, WHICH HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP WITH HEROD, THE TETRARCH, AND SAUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THEY MINISTERED TO THE LORD AND FASTED, THE HOLY GHOST SAID, SEPARATE ME BARNABAS AND SAUL FOR THE WORK WHEREUNTO I HAVE CALLED THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED, AND LAID THEIR HANDS ON THEM, THEY SENT THEM AWAY. Luke here begins the second great part of his book of the Acts. After having narrated the story of the establishment of the Church, he now proceeds to furnish a biographical account of the missionary labors of Pa... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEY, BEING SENT FORTH BY THE HOLY GHOST, DEPARTED UNTO SELEUCIA; AND FROM THENCE THEY SAILED TO CYPRUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
On the island of Cyprus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY WERE AT SALAMIS, THEY PREACHED THE WORD OF GOD IN THE SYNAGOGUES OF THE JEWS; AND THEY HAD ALSO JOHN TO THEIR MINISTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE ISLE UNTO PAPHOS, THEY FOUND A CERTAIN SORCERER, A FALSE PROPHET, A JEW, WHOSE NAME WAS BAR-JESUS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH WAS WITH THE DEPUTY OF THE COUNTRY, SERGIUS PAULUS, A PRUDENT MAN; WHO CALLED BARNABAS AND SAUL, AND DESIRED TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD. Barnabas and Saul, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, their visible separation had taken place before and in the name of the congregation, but they had been d... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT ELYMAS, THE SORCERER, (FOR SO IS HIS NAME BY INTERPRETATION,) WITHSTOOD THEM, SEEKING TO TURN AWAY THE DEPUTY FROM THE FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The opposition of Elymas:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAUL, (WHO ALSO IS CALLED PAUL,) FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, SET HIS EYES ON HIM... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID, O FULL OF ALL SUBTLETY AND ALL MISCHIEF, THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL, THOU ENEMY OF ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS, WILT THOU NOT CEASE TO PERVERT THE RIGHT WAYS OF THE LORD?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW, BEHOLD, THE HAND OF THE LORD IS UPON THEE, AND THOU SHALT BE BLIND, NOT SEEING THE SUN FOR A SEASON. AND IMMEDIATELY THERE FELL ON HIM A MIST AND A DARKNESS; AND HE WENT ABOUT SEEKING SOME TO LEAD HIM BY THE HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE DEPUTY, WHEN HE SAW WHAT WAS DONE, BELIEVED, BEING ASTONISHED AT THE DOCTRINE OF THE LORD. Barnabas and Saul were making some progress with the proconsul, when they met with opposition from a very dangerous adversary. For this counselor of the proconsul, who had cleverly insinuated himself... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN PAUL AND HIS COMPANY LOOSED FROM PAPHOS, THEY CAME TO PERGA IN PAMPHYLIA; AND JOHN, DEPARTING FROM THEM, RETURNED TO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AT ANTIOCH, IN PISIDIA. The journey and the arrival:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THEY DEPARTED FROM PERGA, THEY CAME TO ANTIOCH IN PISIDIA, AND WENT IN TO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH-DAY, AND SAT DOWN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THE READING OF THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS THE RULERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE SENT UNTO THEM, SAYING, YE MEN AND BRETHREN, IF YE HAVE ANY WORD OF EXHORTATION FOR THE PEOPLE, SAY ON. Sometime after the events related by Luke in the first verses of this Chapter, Paul and his companions left Paphos, sa... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PAUL STOOD UP, AND BECKONING WITH HIS HAND, SAID, MEN OF ISRAEL, AND YE THAT FEAR GOD, GIVE AUDIENCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul begins his discourse:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOD OF THIS PEOPLE OF ISRAEL CHOSE OUR FATHERS, AND EXALTED THE PEOPLE WHEN THEY DWELT AS STRANGERS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND WITH AN HIGH ARM BROUGHT HE THEM OUT OF IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABOUT THE TIME OF FORTY YEARS SUFFERED HE THEIR MANNERS IN THE WILDERNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD DESTROYED SEVEN NATIONS IN THE LAND OF CHANAAN, HE DIVIDED THEIR LAND TO THEM BY LOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THAT HE GAVE UNTO THEM JUDGES ABOUT THE SPACE OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS, UNTIL SAMUEL, THE PROPHET.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTERWARD THEY DESIRED A KING; AND GOD GAVE UNTO THEM SAUL, THE SON OF CIS, A MAN OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN, BY THE SPACE OF FORTY YEARS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD REMOVED HIM, HE RAISED UP UNTO THEM DAVID TO BE THEIR KING, TO WHOM ALSO HE GAVE TESTIMONY AND SAID, I HAVE FOUND DAVID, THE SON OF JESSE, A MAN AFTER MINE OWN HEART, WHICH SHALL FULFILL ALL MY WILL. Whether the invitation came to Paul with or without his seeking, he at once made use... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THIS MAN'S SEED HATH GOD ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE RAISED UNTO ISRAEL A SAVIOR, JESUS;... [ Continue Reading ]
The promise of the Messiah:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN JOHN HAD FIRST PREACHED BEFORE HIS COMING THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS JOHN FULFILLED HIS COURSE, HE SAID, WHOM THINK YE THAT I AM? I AM NOT HE. BUT, BEHOLD, THERE COMETH ONE AFTER ME WHOSE SHOES OF HIS FEET I AM NOT WORTHY TO LOOSE. With the mention of David, the great hero of Jewish history, Paul had opened the way to his main theme, the promise, the appearanc... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN AND BRETHREN, CHILDREN OF THE STOCK OF ABRAHAM, AND WHOSOEVER AMONG YOU FEARETH GOD, TO YOU IS THE WORD OF THIS SALVATION SENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
Prophecy fulfilled in the death of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY THAT DWELL AT JERUSALEM, AND THEIR RULERS, BECAUSE THEY KNEW HIM NOT, NOR YET THE VOICES OF THE PROPHETS WHICH ARE READ EVERY SABBATH-DAY, THEY HAVE FULFILLED THEM IN CONDEMNING HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THOUGH THEY FOUND NO CAUSE OF DEATH IN HIM, YET DESIRED THEY PILATE THAT HE SHOULD BE SLAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED ALL THAT WAS WRITTEN OF HIM, THEY TOOK HIM DOWN FROM THE TREE, AND LAID HIM IN A SEPULCHER. Very abruptly Paul changes from the simple historical exposition to a direct appeal that his hearers feel a personal interest in the matters which he is presenting to them. He incl... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD;... [ Continue Reading ]
The argument from the resurrection of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WAS SEEN MANY DAYS OF THEM WHICH CAME UP WITH HIM FROM GALILEE TO JERUSALEM, WHO ARE HIS WITNESSES UNTO THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WE DECLARE UNTO YOU GLAD TIDINGS, HOW THAT THE PROMISE WHICH WAS MADE UNTO THE FATHERS,... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD HATH FULFILLED THE SAME UNTO US, THEIR CHILDREN, IN THAT HE HATH RAISED UP JESUS AGAIN; AS IT IS ALSO WRITTEN IN THE SECOND PSALM, THOU ART MY SON, THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS CONCERNING THAT HE RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD, NOW NO MORE TO RETURN TO CORRUPTION, HE SAID ON THIS WISE, I WILL GIVE YOU THE SURE MERCIES OF DAVID.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE HE SAITH ALSO IN ANOTHER PSALM, THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER THINE HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR DAVID, AFTER HE HAD SERVED HIS OWN GENERATION BY THE WILL OF GOD, FELL ON SLEEP, AND WAS LAID UNTO HIS FATHERS, AND SAW CORRUPTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE WHOM GOD RAISED AGAIN SAW NO CORRUPTION. Paul boldly places the statement at the head of this section of his discourse: But God raised Him from the dead. The full importance of the resurrection of Jesus for Christian faith must ever be kept in mind, since it is fundamental for the understandi... [ Continue Reading ]
BE IT KNOWN UNTO YOU THEREFORE, MEN AND BRETHREN, THAT THROUGH THIS MAN IS PREACHED UNTO YOU THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS;... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of the sermon:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BY HIM ALL THAT BELIEVE ARE JUSTIFIED FROM ALL THINGS FROM WHICH YE COULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW OF MOSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEWARE THEREFORE LEST THAT COME UPON YOU WHICH IS SPOKEN OF IN THE PROPHETS,... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, YE DESPISERS, AND WONDER, AND PERISH; FOR I WORK A WORK IN YOUR DAYS, A WORK WHICH YE SHALL IN NO WISE BELIEVE, THOUGH A MAN DECLARE IT UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE JEWS WERE GONE OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE, THE GENTILES BESOUGHT THAT THESE WORDS MIGHT BE PREACHED TO THEM THE NEXT SABBATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, WHEN THE CONGREGATION WAS BROKEN UP, MANY OF THE JEWS AND RELIGIOUS PROSELYTES FOLLOWED PAUL AND BARNABAS, WHO, SPEAKING TO THEM, PERSUADED THEM TO CONTINUE IN THE GRACE OF GOD. Since the facts adduced by Paul proved the Messiahship of Jesus, he could now continue his discourse by offering to h... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE NEXT SABBATH-DAY CAME ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY TOGETHER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Opposition on the part of the Jews:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE JEWS SAW THE MULTITUDES, THEY WERE FILLED WITH ENVY, AND SPAKE AGAINST THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BY PAUL, CONTRADICTING AND BLASPHEMING.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PAUL AND BARNABAS WAXED BOLD AND SAID, IT WAS NECESSARY THAT THE WORD OF GOD SHOULD FIRST HAVE BEEN SPOKEN TO YOU; BUT SEEING YE PUT IT FROM YOU, AND JUDGE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF EVERLASTING LIFE, LO, WE TURN TO THE GENTILES.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SO HATH THE LORD COMMANDED US, SAYING, I HAVE SET THEE TO BE A LIGHT OF THE GENTILES THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE FOR SALVATION UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. On the following Sabbath the fruit of Paul's first sermon and of the labors of both missionaries during the week became apparent. Almost the whole... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE GENTILES HEARD THIS, THEY WERE GLAD, AND GLORIFIED THE WORD OF THE LORD; AND AS MANY AS WERE ORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
Success and persecution:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS PUBLISHED THROUGHOUT ALL THE REGION. V 50. BUT THE JEWS STIRRED UP THE DEVOUT AND HONORABLE WOMEN AND THE CHIEF MEN OF THE CITY, AND RAISED PERSECUTION AGAINST PAUL AND BARNABAS, AND EXPELLED THEM OUT OF THEIR COASTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY SHOOK OFF THE DUST OF THEIR FEET AGAINST THEM, AND CAME UNTO ICONIUM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DISCIPLES WERE FILLED WITH JOY AND WITH THE HOLY GHOST. The reference of Paul and Barnabas to the passage from Isaiah and its application to the present situation filled the heathen that were present with great joy. With many others, they may have had the idea that the redemption was for the... [ Continue Reading ]