Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Acts 14:11
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 likeness of men.
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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 likeness of men.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
Verse Acts 14:11. _SAYING, IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA_] What this language was has puzzled the learned not a little. _Calmet_ thinks it was a corrupt Greek dialect; as Greek was the general language o...
THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES - They spoke with astonishment, such as might be expected when it was supposed that the gods had come down. IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA - What this language was has much perp...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The work in Iconium and the persecution of the Apostles (Acts 14:1)._ 2. In Derbe and Lystra; the Impotent Man healed (Acts 14:7). 3. The Stoning of Paul and further ministries (Act...
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 region of Galatia; Roman influence was strong there, an...
ON TO ICONIUM (Acts 14:1-7)...
There was a man who sat in Lystra who had no power in his feet. He had been a cripple from his birth and he had never walked. He was in the habit of listening to Paul speaking. Paul fixed his gaze on...
PEOPLE. crowd. Greek. _ochlos._ SAW. Greek. _eidon._ Same as "perceive" in Acts 14:9. HAD DONE. did. IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA. Greek. _Lukaonisti._ GODS. App-98. IN THE LIKENESS OF. likened to....
_in the speech of Lycaonia_ Which would come more naturally to their lips than any other. The people were bilingual, and St Paul had been speaking to them in Greek. This fact may give us some addition...
CURE OF A CRIPPLE AT LYSTRA. THE HEATHEN PEOPLE REGARD THE APOSTLES AS GODS....
ΛΥΚΑΟΝΙΣΤΊ, _in the speech of Lycaonia_. Which would come more naturally to their lips than any other. The people were bilingual, and St Paul had been speaking to them in Greek. This fact may give us...
_PAUL AND BARNABAS IN LYSTRA ACTS 14:8-17:_ At Lystra the apostles healed a lame man. He had never walked. This miracle was very much like the one in Acts 3:1-26. The man listened to the preaching. As...
ΊΔΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Acts 14:9. ΈΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, ΈΠΉΡΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΑΊΡΩ (G1869) поднимать. ΛΥΚΑΟΝΙΣΤΊ (G3072) _adv._ по-ликаонски (BAGD...
IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA,— This, as some say, was not a dialect of the Greek, but rather approached the Syriac, as the language of Cappadocia is said to have done. It appears from numberless passages...
IN LYSTRA. Acts 14:6 b - Acts 14:20. a. General statement. Acts 14:6 b, Acts 14:7....
See notes one verse 8...
6 Lystra seems to be the first place Paul preached without first proclaiming to the Jews in the synagogue, for it seems that there were not enough Jews to have a place of worship. Hence this is the fi...
IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA] This explains why the apostles did not protest against the proposals at the time. They appear to have gone home in entire ignorance of the construction which the people had...
FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED) 1-7. Paul and Barnabas at Iconium. The gospel meets with great success among both Jews and Gentiles in this populous city, and miracles are wrought in confirmatio...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 14 PAUL AND BARNABAS IN ICONIUM, 14:1-7 V1 What happened in Pisidian Antioch also happened in Iconium. Paul and Barnabas went to the *synagogue...
SAYING IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA. — The fact is clearly recorded with a definite purpose, and no explanation seems so natural as that which assumes it to be given as accounting for the passive attitud...
ἐπῆραν τὴν φ. αὐτῶν : aorist; lifted up their voices with a sudden outburst, and then went on to devise names for the two: ἐκάλουν, “were for calling,” imperfect; _cf._ Luke 1:54 (Rendall). The phrase...
VARYING TREATMENT OF THE MESSAGE Acts 14:1-13 From Antioch the Apostles passed to Iconium, the capital of Lycaonia. It is most illuminating to note the source of their success: _The Lord bore witness...
In Iconium there was largely a repetition of the experiences at Antioch. Becoming aware of the growing hostility, Paul and Barnabas passed on, and came to Lystra. There is a marked difference between...
Idolatry Confronted at Lystra Paul and Barnabas next arrived at Lystra, some 18 miles to the east. There was apparently no synagogue there, but there was a man who had been crippled since birth and ha...
_And they called Barnabas, Jupiter. Perhaps because he was of taller and finer stature; for, according to Nicephorus (hist. ii. 37.) St. Paul was very low in size, and much bent; hence St. John Chryso...
PAUL AND BARNABAS ARE TAKEN FOR GRECIAN GODS 11-18. All nations at the time of our Savior's advent were on tiptoe expecting a divine messenger from heaven to teach them the way of salvation. Hence the...
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 likeness of men. (12) And they called Barnabas, Jupiter;...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
− 11._Furthermore, the multitude. _This history doth abundantly testify how ready and bent men are unto vanity. Paul uttered not that word abruptly, _Arise; _but he added it as it were a conclusion to...
Their missionary labours continue in Iconium with the same opposition from the Jews who, incapable themselves of the work, stir up the Gentiles against those who are performing it. As long as it was o...
AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW WHAT PAUL HAD DONE,.... In curing the lame man in so marvellous a manner, and concluding it to be a divine work, and what a mere creature could never perform: THEY LIFT UP THE...
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 likeness of men. Ver. 11. _The gods are come down_] See...
_And when the people_ Who were present when this wonderful cure was wrought; _saw what Paul had done_ By merely speaking a word, being all in raptures of astonishment; _they lifted up their voices_ In...
SPEECH OF LYCAONIA; the language of that province....
A miracle and its effect upon the people:...
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 LIKENESS OF MEN....
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 number, both of Jews and Gentiles, to believe the gosp...
NOW WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW WHAT PAUL HAD DONE, THEY RAISED THEIR VOICES, SAYING IN THE LYCAONIAN _LANGUAGE,_ " THE GODS HAVE COME DOWN TO US IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN! " 1. The miracle was seen by many peo...
"In the Lycanonian language" This was. local dialect of some kind, "it was perfectly natural for the people, in their excitement, to revert to their native language" (Reese p. 504). "The gods have bec...
8-18 All things are possible to those that believe. When we have faith, that most precious gift of God, we shall be delivered from the spiritual helplessness in which we were born, and from the domin...
IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA; which was a dialect of the Greek tongue, that language being in the Lesser Asia ordinarily spoken. THE GODS ARE COME DOWN TO US IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN; the heathens (especia...
Acts 14:11 Now G1161 people G3793 saw G1492 (G5631) what G3739 Paul G3972 done G4160 (G5656) raised...
‘And when the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, “The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.” And they called Barnabas, Zeus, and...
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 are on top of the fact that they proclaimed the Good N...
Acts 14:11. AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW WHAT PAUL HAD DONE, THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES. The whole incident was of so strange a nature that it at once took by storm the hearts of these impulsive Lycaonian...
LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE (επηραν την φωνην αυτων). First aorist active of επαιρω. In their excitement they elevated their voices.IN THE SPEECH OF LYCAONIA (Λυκαονιστ). Adverb from verb λυκαονιζω, to...
CONTENTS: Work of the Gospel at Iconium, Derbe, Lystra. An impotent man at Lystra healed. Paul stoned. Elders appointed in the churches. CHARACTERS: God, Paul, Barnabas, impotent man, priest of Jupit...
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 laconic, merely naming Perga and Attalia. This great...
WHEN THE CROWDS SAW. The people of Lystra were heathen who believed in many _gods._ Their tradition said the _gods_ often came down in the form of men, and intervened in human affairs. Zeus. The chief...
_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 plain at the foot of Taurus, on the great line of commu...
_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 gate Beautiful; and a particular statement of it is...
_The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men._ THE THEOLOGY OF HEATHENDOM In the words and acts of these heathen Lystrians, there comes out the native theology of human hearts everywhere an...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 14:11 THE GODS HAVE COME DOWN TO US IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN. Since the people were speaking in their native LYCAONIAN language, Paul and Barnabas were probably unaware of what was hap...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 14:8 Lystra was populated mainly by Gentiles and had no synagogue. The ministry of Paul and Barnabas there centered around the healing of a lame man. ⇐...
_HOMILETICAL ANALYSIS_.—_Acts 14:8_ Paul and Barnabas at Lystra; or, the Gospel among Barbarians I. THE MIRACLE AT LYSTRA.— 1. The _subject_. “A certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his...
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. Observe how in every case Greeks are found attending the s...
Paul and Barnabas, in carrying the Gospel, have come into the uncharted territories as far as the Gospel is concerned into Asia Minor. They came from Cyprus to the area that is now known as Turkey. Th...
Acts 12:22; Acts 28:6; Acts 8:10...
In the speech of Lycaonia. The apostles had been conversing with them in Greek. The fact that the people now spoke in their native tongue explains why Paul and Barnabas did not interfere until they sa...
PREACHING BY THE WAY Acts 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we open the 14th chapter of Acts, we find Paul and Barnabas still traveling together and entering into Iconium. It is our purpose today to cover...
The gods are come down — Which the heathens supposed they frequently did; Jupiter especially. But how amazingly does the prince of darkness blind the minds of them that believe not! The Jews would not...