“ And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. ”
And the disciples - The disciples in Antioch. Were filled with joy - This happened even in the midst of persecution, and is one of the many evidences that the gospel is able to fill the soul...
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...
52. The disciples were filled with joy This member may be expounded two manner of ways; That they were filled with joy and the Spirit, by hypallage, thus, With joy of the Spirit, or (whic...
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost - Though in the world they had tribulation, yet in Christ they had peace; a...
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. And the disciples - who, though not themselves expelled, had to endure sufferings for the Gospel, as we learn from Acts 14:22...
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...
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost. — The tense is again that which expresses the continuance of the state. The “joy” expresses what is almost the normal sequence of con...
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...
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...
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...
And the disciples were filled with joy ,.... Meaning either the "apostles", as the Ethiopic version renders it, Paul and Barnabas; who rejoiced, both at the success they had met with, and because th...
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. Ver. 52. With joy, and with the Holy Ghost ] There must needs be music in the Spirit's temple, and at that continual feast: its de...
And the word of the Lord was published throughout all that region Paul and Barnabas, it seems, during their stay at Antioch, made excursions into the neighbouring country, for the sake of preaching...
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...
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...
The disciples; either Paul and Barnabas in a more especial manner, or, also such as at Perga had believed the gospel, and came with them to Antioch, were filled with joy, so as no place was left...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Success and persecution:
1 Peter 1:6-8 ; 1 Peter 4:13 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:6 ; 2 Corinthians 8:2 ; Acts 2:4 ; Acts 2:46 ; Acts 4:31 ; Acts 5:41 ; Ephesians 5:18-20 ; Galatians 5:22 ; James 1:2 ; John 16:22 ; John...