Acts 17:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

Therefore many of them believed - convinced that Jesus of Nazareth, whom Paul preached, was indeed the great Promise and Burden of the Old Testament Scriptures.

Also of honourable women - women, that is, of what we call the better or upper class,

Which were Greeks, and of men - that is, men which were Greeks, "not a few." The upper classes in these European Greek and Romanized towns (as Webster and Wilkinson remark) were probably better educated than those of Asia Minor.

Acts 17:12

12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.