And when they had preached, and taught many Namely, at Derbe; and, it seems also, in Galatia and Phrygia: see Colossians 4:13. Greek, μαθητευσαντες ικανους, having made many disciples; they returned again to Lystra, &c. Being doubtless directed so to do by the Spirit; confirming the souls of the disciples Whom they had converted in their former journey; exhorting them to continue in the faith With a steadfastness becoming the evidence and importance of it; and testifying that we must through much tribulation Which will unavoidably lie in our way; enter into the kingdom of God A kingdom which, however, will amply recompense us for all the sufferings that we shall meet with in our way to it. “The cross was eminently the way to the crown in those days: the Head, says Zanchy, having been crowned with thorns, it is not fit the feet should tread on roses: an easy way to heaven is a false one.”
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Acts 14:21-22
21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many,a they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.