Acts 13:48 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And 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. ”

• Acts 13:48 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When the Gentiles heard this - Heard that the gospel was to be preached to them. The doctrine of the Jews had been that salvation was confined to themselves. The Gentiles rejoiced that from the m...

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• Acts 13:48 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were (t) ordained to eternal life believed. (t) Therefore either all were not appointed to everla...

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• Acts 13:48 - 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 13:48 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  ordained . appointed. Greek. tasao. Here, Acts 15:2 ; Acts 22:10 ; Acts 28:23 . Matthew 28:16 ; Luke 7:8 ; Romans 13:1 ; 1 Corinthians 16:15 . eternal . Greek. aionios.

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• Acts 13:48 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  48. And when the Gentiles heard. The matter of the Gentiles’ joy was this, [viz.] when they heard that they were not called to salvation at a sudden, as if this had not been decreed before b...

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• Acts 13:48 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1780 THE GENTILES RECEIVE THE GOSPEL Acts 13:46-48 . Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seein...

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• Acts 13:48 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And 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. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed - This t...

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• Acts 13:48 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  As many as were ordained to eternal life— We observe, 1st, upon this text, that whatever the exact meaning of the word rendered ordained may be, it does not here refer to the decrees of God, bu...

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• Acts 13:48 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And 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. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad -...

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• Acts 13:48 - 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 13:48 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  They were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord. — Both verbs are in the tense of continued action. The joy was not an evanescent burst of emotion. The “word of the Lord” here is the teaching wh...

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• Acts 13:48 - 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 13:48 - 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 13:48 - 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 13:48 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And when the Gentiles heard this ,.... That it was the will of God, and the command of Christ, that the Gospel should be preached to them; by whom are to be understood the Pisidians, the inhabitants...

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• Acts 13:48 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And 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. Ver. 48. Glorified in the word ] That is, received it...

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• Acts 13:48 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And when the Gentiles heard this That such things had been prophesied concerning them many ages ago, and that the way was now open for their admission into covenant with the true God, and that the...

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• Acts 13:48 - 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 13:48 - 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 13:48 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  When the Gentiles heard this they were glad; there can be no true rest or peace in any to whom Christ is not manifested; the apostle telling us, that we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus...

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• Acts 13:48 - 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 13:48 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 def...

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• Acts 13:48 - 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 13:48 - 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 13:48 - 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 13:48 - 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 13:48 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And 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.

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• Acts 13:48 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 16:15 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:14 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:1 ; Acts 15:2 ; Acts 2:47 ; Acts 20:13 ; Acts 22:10 ; Acts 28:23 ; Acts 13:42 ; Acts 15:31 ; Acts 2:4...

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• Acts 13:48 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  As many as were ordained to eternal life — St. Luke does not say fore — ordained. He is not speaking of what was done from eternity, but of what was then done, through the preaching of the Gospel....

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