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Acts 13:50 KJV
Acts · chapter 13 · verse 50
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.Acts 13:50 · King James Version
Acts 13:50 in context
48And 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.
49And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
50But 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.
51But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
52And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- persecutiondiōgmospersecutionG1375 →
- honourableeuschēmōnof elegant figure, shapely, graceful, comely, bearing one s self becomingly in speech or…G2158 →
- BarnabasbarnabasBarnabas = " son of rest" , the surname of Joses or Joseph, a Levite, a native of…G921 →
- againstepiupon, on, at, by, before, of position, on, at, by, over, against, to, over, on, at…G1909 →
- devoutsebōto revere, to worshipG4576 →
- raisedepegeirōto raise or excite againstG1892 →
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The design of this story being to vindicate the apostles, especially Paul (as he doth himself at large, Rom. 11), from the reflections of the Jews upon him for preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, it is here observed that he proceeded therein with all the caution imaginable, and upon due consideration, of which we…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 42-52