Acts 14:16

1 Peter 4:3; Acts 17:30; Ephesians 2:12; Hosea 4:17; Psalms 147:20; Psalms 81:12; Romans 1:21-25; Romans 1:28

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who in times past - Previous to the gospel; in past ages. Suffered all nations - Permitted all nations; that is, all Gentiles, Acts 17:30 ....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(5) Who in times past (g) suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. (5) Custom, be it ever so old, does not excuse the idolaters. (g) Allowed...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lystra. Lystra, 25 miles SW. of Iconium, 10 miles off the trade route, in a secluded glen. Lystra and Derbe were the two cities of the Lycaonian re...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

times . generations. Greek. genea. past . passed away. Greek. paroichomai. Only here. nations . Greek. ethnos.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

− 16. In times past. Because the men of Lystra might object that that God was unknown hitherto, Paul and Barnabas prevent them and say, that...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Who in times past suffered all nations, etc. - The words παντα τα εθνη, which we he...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Who in times past suffered all nations, &c.— That is, all the Gentiles. God left all nations, except the Jews, to the light of the heathen disp...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways - that is,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

First Missionary Journey (continued) 1-7. Paul and Barnabas at Iconium. The gospel meets with great success among both Jews and Gentiles in this p...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Who in times past suffered all nations. — Better, all the heathen; the term used being that which is always employed of the nations outside the c...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Establishing the New Believers Acts 14:14-28 In Paul's address we have distinct anticipations of the early Chapter s of the Epistle to the Roma...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In Iconium there was largely a repetition of the experiences at Antioch. Becoming aware of the growing hostility, Paul and Barnabas passed on, and ca...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likene...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who in times past ,.... For many hundred years past; even ever since God chose and separated the people of Israel from the rest of the nations, to b...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Ver. 16. Suffered all nations, &c. ] That we walk not as other Gentiles, in...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then the priest of Jupiter Who was esteemed the tutelar deity of that place, and whose statue stood just without the gate; brought oxen , or bull...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Iconium was also in Asia Minor: here they entered the synagogue and the Spirit of God gave them grace to so speak as to vitally influence a great num...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Lame Man Healed at Lystra; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. 8 And there sat a cer...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There were two main objections which these heathen idolaters might make against the gospel, and the worship of the true God: and they are, first, fro...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Ministry at Lystra (14:8-20a). A description is now given of the rather colourful events that occurred during their ministry in Lystra. These...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

These were not Jews. Nor were they people with a background in Judaism or philosophy. As they were revealing they were out and out idolaters and simp...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICAL ANALYSIS .— Acts 14:8-20 Paul and Barnabas at Lystra; or, the Gospel among Barbarians I. The miracle at Lystra .— 1. The subject...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 14:1 . It came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the jews. St. Luke makes here a great leap, and is very...
The Biblical Illustrator

And it came to pass in Iconium. Iconium A considerable city of Asia Minor, generally considered as belonging to Lycaonia. It lay in a fertile p...
The Biblical Illustrator

And there sat a certain man at Lystra. Paul and Barnabas in Lystra I. The incident. 1. The case of the cripple resembles that of the man at...
The Biblical Illustrator

Sirs, why do ye these things? Apostolic sincerity In a position similar to that of Herod, they act in an opposite manner ( Acts 12:22 ). And ye...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Acts 14:1 Entered for went both, A.V.; Jews for the Jews, A.V.; and for and also, A.V.; Greeks for the Greeks, A.V...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The horrified speech of Paul:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Preaching by the Way Acts 14:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we open the 14th chapter of Acts, we find Paul and Barnabas still traveling together a...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Who in times past — He prevents their objection, "But if these things are so, we should have heard the in from our fathers." Suffered — An awful ju...

¹⁶ Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Related Commentaries of Acts 14:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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