Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
Acts 13:50
Devout; devout in the observance of the Jewish law.
Devout; devout in the observance of the Jewish law.
ACTS 13:50 diwgmo,n Codex Bezae, partly supported by E, adds qli/yin mega,lhn kai, before diwgmo,n (“… stirred up _great affliction and_ persecution against Paul and Barnabas”); for a similar Wester...
Verse Acts 13:50. _DEVOUT AND HONOURABLE WOMEN_] It is likely that these were _heathen matrons_, who had become _proselytes_ to the Jewish religion; and, as they were persons of affluence and respect...
BUT THE JEWS STIRRED UP - Excited opposition. HONOURABLE WOMEN - See the notes on Mark 15:43. Women of influence, and connected with families of rank. Perhaps they were proselytes, and were connected...
PART III The Witness to the Gentiles. The Apostle to the Gentiles; his Ministry and Captivity. Chapter s 13-28 CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Divine Choice. Barnabas and Saul separated unto the work (Acts 1...
THE RESULT: THE MISSIONARIES LEAVE ANTIOCH. Acts 13:42 reads as if the congregation as a whole invited the preachers to speak to them again on the following Sabbath, but a meeting or meetings at once...
THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Acts 13:1-3) Acts 13:1-52; Acts 14:1-28 tell the story of the first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas set out from Antioch. Antioch was 15 miles up the River Orontes...
As they were going out, they kept asking that these things should be spoken to them on the next Sabbath. When the synagogue service had broken up many of the Jews and worshipping proselytes followed P...
STIRRED UP. instigated. Greek. _parotruno_ Only here. DEVOUT. Greek. _sebomai,_ same as "religious" (Acts 13:43). honourable. Greek. _euschemdn._ Here, Acts 17:12.Mark 15:43;...
_the devout and honourable women_ The conjunction is omitted in the best texts. Read, "the devout women of honourable estate." We read that in Damascus, and we may suppose that it was likely to be the...
FURTHER PREACHING BOTH TO JEWS AND GENTILES. JEALOUSY OF THE JEWS, AND EXPULSION OF THE APOSTLES FROM ANTIOCH...
καὶ before ΤᾺΣ ΕΥ̓ΣΧΉΜΟΝΑΣ omitted with אABCD. _Vulg_. ‘et.’ 50. ΤᾺΣ ΣΕΒΟΜΈΝΑΣ ΓΥΝΑΙ͂ΚΑΣ ΤᾺΣ ΕΥ̓ΣΧΉΜΟΝΑΣ, _the devout women of honourable estate_. We read that in Damascus, and we may suppose that it...
_PAUL PREACHED TO THE GENTILES AND IS PERSECUTED ACTS 13:42-52:_ The people were eager to hear more of the preaching done by Paul and Barnabas on the next Sabbath. Many of both the Jews and Gentiles b...
ΠΑΡΏΤΡΥΝΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΟΤΡΎΝΩ (G3951) побуждать, возбуждать, ΕΎΣΧΉΜΩΝ (G2158) выдающийся, занимающий высокое положение; здесь, возможно, "богатый" (LC; TDNT; о богатых женщинах древнего ми...
DEVOUT AND HONOURABLE WOMEN,— As Antioch in Pisidia was a Gentile city, the Jews had not the civil power in their hands; but they were so incensed at the success of the two apostles, and particularly...
AT ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. Acts 13:14-52. a. In the synagogue, the first sermon of Paul. Acts 13:1. Acts 13:14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the s...
See notes one verse 49...
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. BUT THE JEWS STIRRED...
33 The rendering first psalm in place of second psalm demands some explanation. Our three great witnesses all read second, and we would have so rendered it, but for the confusion which would result wh...
13:50 worshippers, (a-13) The word translated 'worshipping,' 'worshippers,' and 'worshipped' at verses 43 and 50, also at chs. 16.14; 17.4 and 17, and 18.7, signified a numerous class of Gentiles who,...
ST. PAUL AS A MISSIONARY 1. Prophets] see on Acts 11:27. SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER] Niger was a Roman cognomen. LUCIUS OF CYRENE] doubtless one of those Cyrenians who first preached at Antioch (Act...
DEVOUT AND HONOURABLE WOMEN] i.e. proselytes to Judaism, and (probably) wives to the chief men of the city. COASTS] i.e. borders....
ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. ST. PAUL'S SERMON IN THE SYNAGOGUE. The cities which the apostles now proceeded to evangelise (Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe) were situated in the southern part of t...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 THE *HOLY SPIRIT CHOOSES BARNABAS AND SAUL, 13:1-3 V1 There were some *prophets and teachers in the *church at Antioch. They were Barnabas,...
THE JEWS STIRRED UP THE DEVOUT AND HONOURABLE WOMEN. — The fact stated brings before us another feature of the relations between Jews and Gentiles at this period. They “compassed sea and land to make...
παρώτρυναν : “urged on,” R.V.; only here in N.T., not in LXX or Apocrypha; so in Pind., Lucian, and so too in Josephus, _Ant._, vii., 6, 1, and also in Hippocrates and Aretaeus. ἐπήγειραν, _cf._ Acts...
JEWS REJECT, GENTILES ACCEPT, THE GOSPEL Acts 13:38-52 The doctrine of justification by faith, so closely associated with the work of Paul, is here stated for the first time. In Jesus there is forgiv...
The first most distinctly missionary movement sprang from Antioch, and was independent of all official initiation. A company of those in Antioch sent Saul and Barnabas, and it is declared immediately...
The Response to the Gospel in Antioch of Pisidia As they went out of the synagogue, some were stirred to ask Paul and Barnabas to return the following week to speak again. The next sabbath day saw nea...
(20) But the Jews stirred up the (u) devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. (20) Such is...
The vast Gentile crowd aroused the old prejudice of the Jews so they could no longer keep the peace. Therefore the apostles turn to the Gentiles, who greatly rejoice to think that all the riches of th...
And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. (43) Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
50.Nevertheless, he declareth that that was done not without great pains and trouble. Therefore, the beginning of the calling of the Gentiles was joyful and prosperous, neither could Satan hinder the...
We come now to the beginning of the direct history of the work, new in some important respects, that is, connected with Paul's mission by the immediate intervention of the Holy Ghost. It is not now Ch...
BUT THE JEWS STIRRED UP THE DEVOUT AND HONOURABLE WOMEN,.... These seem not to be Jewish women; could they be thought to be such, they might easily be concluded to be of the sect of the Pharisees, whi...
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. Ver. 50. _The devout a...
_And the word of the Lord was published throughout all that region_ Paul and Barnabas, it seems, during their stay at Antioch, made excursions into the neighbouring country, for the sake of preaching...
Success and persecution:...
From this time our attention is drawn particularly to the work of Saul, whose name is in this chapter changed to Paul, meaning "little," for one who is the most greatly used of God is, in his own esti...
BUT THE JEWS STIRRED UP THE DEVOUT AND PROMINENT WOMEN AND THE CHIEF MEN OF THE CITY, RAISED UP PERSECUTION AGAINST PAUL AND BARNABAS, AND EXPELLED THEM FROM THEIR REGION. 1. The Jewish leadership in...
Unfortunately the unbelieving Jews found some powerful allies in influential men and women. Compare this with 2 Timothy 3:10....
42-52 The Jews opposed the doctrine the apostles preached; and when they could find no objection, they blasphemed Christ and his gospel. Commonly those who begin with contradicting, end with blasphem...
OLBGrk; _ The devout; _ sebomenoi, as was said of the men, such as had relinquished the idolatry of their country and ancestors, and acknowledged the true God, the Maker of heaven and earth. HONOURABL...
Acts 13:50 But G1161 Jews G2453 up G3951 (G5656) devout G4576 (G5740) and G2532 prominent G2158 women...
‘But the Jews urged on the devout women of honourable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.' If only he cou...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF PAUL'S SPEECH (13:43-52). The principle behind the words of Habakkuk were remarkably ‘fulfilled'. Many of the Jews who were there that day could not face up to the work in their da...
PAUL AND HIS COMPANY PREACH IN PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. (13:13-52). Paul ‘and his company' (thus there were at least one or two others besides Mark) left Paphos and sailed across to Perga in Pamphylia. It wi...
Acts 13:50. THE DEVOUT AND HONOURABLE WOMEN. Strabo, quoted by Howson (_St. Paul_, chap. vi), makes special mention of the position of the female sex in the towns of Western Asia, and speaks in strong...
URGED ON (παρωτρυναν). First aorist (effective) active of παρ-οτρυνω, old verb, but here alone in the N.T., to incite, to stir up. The Jews were apparently not numerous in this city as they had only...
CONTENTS: Paul and Barnabas called. Satanic opposition from a sorcerer. Paul's sermon in the synagogue at Antioch. Opposition from Jews. Paul and Barnabas turn to Gentiles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Ho...
Acts 13:1. _The church that was at Antioch,_ which was counted one of the five apostolic churches. It is the true church by way of eminence, the synagogue having degenerated into a state of warfare wi...
BUT THE JEWS STIRRED UP. They did what they could to cause trouble. AND THREW THEM OUT OF THEIR REGION. This interrupted the work of Paul and Barnabas, but not the spread of the Good News. They came b...
_But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women._ JEWISH TACTICS The fact brings before us another feature of the relations between Jews and Gentiles at this period. They “compassed sea and...
_And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words._ GROWTH OF APOSTOLIC POWER 1. There are always unexpected hearers arising to give encouragement to the preac...
_Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia._ PERGA IN PAMPHYLIA Because Perga was little known Pamphylia is subjoined. It was an ancient city on the river Cest...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:42 Although the response at the synagogue was favorable, the Jews turned against Paul the next Sabbath when a large group of Gentiles showed up. Paul responded by preaching to the...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:45. CONTRADICTING AND BLASPHEMING.—The best MSS. Omit “contradicting” (Lachmann, Westcott and Hort); but as it is neither superfluous nor Hebraistic (Hackett), and defines...
EXPOSITION ACTS 13:1 _At Antioch., in the Church that was there _for _in the Church that was at Antioch, _A.V.; _prophets, _etc., for _certain prophets, _etc., A.V. and T.R.; _Barnabas, _etc., for _a...
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,...
1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Timothy 3:11; Acts 16:37;...
Honorable [ε υ σ χ η μ ο ν α ς]. See on Mark 14:43. Women of rank, or, as Rev., of honorable state. Coasts [ο ρ ι ω ν]. Not a good rendering, because it implies merely a sea - coast; whereas the word...