Acts 14:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

At Iconium, Meeting with Similar Success and Similar Opposition as at Antioch in Pisidia, Paul and Barnabas Flee for their Lives to Lystra, and Preach There (14:1-7)

And it came to pass in Iconium (as to which, see the note at Acts 13:51 ), that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews (see the note at Acts 13:46 ), and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed - meaning, no doubt, the religious proselytes, as distinguished from the pagan population of the city, now to be mentioned. As this discourse would be in substance the same as at Antioch in Pisidia, the historian records only the fruit of it; and this method he follows in all the subsequent history, until he comes to the apostle's address to his countrymen from the castle stairs, which was too important in itself, and too different from all his preceding discourses, not to be given in full.

Acts 14:1

1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.