Acts 13:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

When John had first preached— St. Paul mentions the preaching of John the Baptist in this incidental manner, as a thing already known to them, because it gave so universal an alarm to the whole Jewish nation, that it might probably be heard of in foreign countries, at least as remote as Pisidia. Raphelius has taken pains to prove, from similar passages in the Greek classics, that both the clauses in the next verse, Whom think ye that I am?—I am not he, may be considered as united in an affirmation, and rendered, "I am not the person whom you suppose me to be, that is, the Messiah." See Annot. ex Herodot. p. 251. The reader will refer for what follows to the passages in the margin.