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Acts 14:6 KJV
Acts · chapter 14 · verse 6
They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:Acts 14:6 · King James Version
Acts 14:6 in context
4But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
5And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
6They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
7And there they preached the gospel.
8And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- LycaonialykaoniaLycaonia = " wolf land" , a region in Asia Minor, situated between Pisidia…G3071 →
- LystralystraLystra = " ransoming" , a city in the eastern part of the great plain of LycaoniaG3082 →
- citiespolisa city, one s native city, the city in which one lives, the heavenly Jerusalem, the abode…G4172 →
- DerbederbēDerbe = " tanner tanner of skin coverer with skin" , a city of Lycaonia, on the…G1191 →
- waresynoraōto see together with others, to see in one s mind with one s self, to understand…G4894 →
- fledkatapheugōto flee away, flee for refugeG2703 →
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In these verses we have, I. The preaching of the gospel in Iconium, whither the apostles were forced to retire from Antioch. As the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the church, so the banishment of the confessors has helped to scatter that seed. Observe, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7