Acts 13:44 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. ”

• Acts 13:44 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And the next sabbath-day - This was the regular day for worship, and it was natural that a greater multitude should convene on that day than on the other days of the week. Came almost the whol...

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• Acts 13:44 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 13:44 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the next sabbath day . the following sabbath; not the same expression as in Acts 13:42 . came... together . was gathered together. almost . Greek. schedon. Here, Acts 19:26 , and Hebrews 9:...

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• Acts 13:44 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  44. And when the Sabbath came. The great assembly of the people doth prove that Paul and Barnabas loitered not between the Sabbaths, and they did not take pains with the Gentiles in vain; fo...

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• Acts 13:44 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. The next Sabbath day - The good news had spread far and wide, by means of the converted Jews and proselytes. Alm...

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• Acts 13:44 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God - or 'of the Lord,'...

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• Acts 13:44 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 An...

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• Acts 13:44 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The next sabbath day came almost the whole city together. — It is clear that the Jewish synagogue could not have held such a crowd, and we are led accordingly to the conclusion either that they thr...

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• Acts 13:44 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 13:44 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Acts 13:44 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 13:44 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the next sabbath day ,.... The same which is before called the "sabbath between", which was between the first and tenth of Tisri, or between the beginning of the year, and the day of atonement:...

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• Acts 13:44 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. Ver. 44. And the next sabbath day ] The apostles had been busy with them on the foregoing week days, the bett...

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• Acts 13:44 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And the next sabbath came almost the whole city together Idolaters as well as proselytes; to hear the word of God In consequence, it seems, of the report which the Gentiles had spread abroad of w...

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• Acts 13:44 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 est...

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• Acts 13:44 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Paul at Antioch in Pisidia.       42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be pr...

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• Acts 13:44 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The citizens generally resorted thither. To hear the word of God; some out of curiosity, some to cavil at it, though some also out of love to it; here was doubtless a mixed congregation.

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• Acts 13:44 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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. I...

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• Acts 13:44 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Acts 13:13-14 . Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Perga, they came t...

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• Acts 13:44 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Acts 13:44 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Acts 13:44 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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, et...

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• Acts 13:44 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And the next Sabbath-day came almost the whole city together to hear the Word of God.

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• Acts 13:44 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 49:10 ; Isaiah 11:10 ; Isaiah 60:8 ; Psalms 110:3

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