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Acts 13:5 KJV
Acts · chapter 13 · verse 5
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.Acts 13:5 · King James Version
Acts 13:5 in context
3And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
4So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
5And 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.
6And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
7Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- synagoguessynagōgēa bringing together, gathering , a contracting, in the NT, an assembling together of men…G4864 →
- preachedkatangellōto announce, declare, promulgate, make known, to proclaim publicly, publish, to denounce…G2605 →
- SalamissalamisSalmis = " salt" , a principal city at the east end of the island of CyprusG4529 →
- wordlogosof speech, a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea, what someone…G3056 →
- JewsioudaiosJewish, belonging to the Jewish nation, Jewish as respects to birth, origin, religionG2453 →
- JohniōannēsJohn = " Jehovah is a gracious giver" , John the Baptist was the son of Zacharias…G2491 →
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In these verses we have, I. A general account of the coming of Barnabas and Saul to the famous island of Cyprus; and perhaps thitherward they steered their course because Barnabas was a native of that country (Act 4:36), and he was willing they should have the first-fruits of his labours, pursuant to his new…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-13