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Acts 14:18

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. In spite of this, and of the apostle Peter's repudiation of all such undue honours (see the note at ), how soon did idolatrous tendencies begin to show themselves in the Christian Church, at length to be systematized and enjoined in the Church of Rome!

The minds of the Lycaonians being poisoned by Jews from Antioch and Iconium, a popular tumult is excited, and Paul, being stoned and drawn out of the city, is left for dead. Recovering, however he withdraws with Barnabas to Derbe (14:19-21)

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND WITH THESE SAYINGS - With these arguments. SCARCE RESTRAINED THEY THE PEOPLE - They were so fully satisfied that the gods had appeared, and were so full of zeal to do them honor....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • 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 region of Galatia; Roman influence was strong there, an...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    ON TO ICONIUM (Acts 14:1-7)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WITH THESE SAYINGS. saying these things. SCARCE. with difficulty. Greek. _molis._ RESTRAINED. made to cease. Greek. _katapauo._ Only here and Hebrews 4:4; Hebrews 4:8; Hebrews 4:10....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _that they had not done sacrifice unto them_ i.e. "from doing sacrifice," &c....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΟΥ͂ ΜῊ ΘΎΕΙΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΙ͂Σ, _that they had not done sacrifice unto them_. Here the genitival infinitive is in strict government by the verb κατέπαυσαν, which like other verbs of detention and hindering ca...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    CURE OF A CRIPPLE AT LYSTRA. THE HEATHEN PEOPLE REGARD THE APOSTLES AS GODS....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _PAUL IS STONED FOR PREACHING CHRIST ACTS 14:18-20:_ The things they said concerning themselves, and concerning the living God, His creation of all things, His goodness toward men barely kept the peop...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΜΌΛΙΣ (G3433) с трудом, едва, с усилием. ΚΑΤΈΠΑΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΠΑΎΩ (G2664) ограничивать, прекращать. Предложное сочетание перфектно. Артикулированный _inf._ в родительном падеже использ...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IN LYSTRA. Acts 14:6 b - Acts 14:20. a. General statement. Acts 14:6 b, Acts 14:7....

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    See notes one verse 14...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • 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 populous city, and miracles are wrought in confirmatio...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WITH THESE SAYINGS SCARCE RESTRAINED THEY THE PEOPLE. — On some of those who were thus restrained the effect may well have been that they were roused to a higher life and did turn from “vanities” to t...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    μόλις : used only by Luke and Paul (with one exception of a quotation, 1 Peter 4:18), Luke 9:39, W.H [270]; four times in Acts, and Romans 5:7. κατέπαυσαν τοῦ μὴ, Acts 10:47

  • 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 Romans. How fickle a mob is! Now, enthusiastic loyalty; aga...

  • 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 came to Lystra. There is a marked difference between...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • 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 likeness of men. (12) And they called Barnabas, Jupiter;...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    − 18._When they had said thus. _Luke said before that they did not only use words, but they ran also with violence into the multitude. − (39) Now he addeth, that the fury of the people was scarce appe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WITH THESE SAYINGS,.... Concerning themselves, and concerning the living God, his creation of all things, and his providential goodness: SCARCE RESTRAINED THEY THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY HAD NOT DONE...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. Ver. 18. _Scarce restrained they the people_] SeeActs 14:13. Man's nature is marvellously prone t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The horrified speech of Paul:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND WITH THESE SAYINGS SCARCE RESTRAINED THEY THE PEOPLE THAT THEY HAD NOT DONE SACRIFICE UNTO THEM. Evidently there was here a bilingual situation which complicated matters. While the inhabitants of...

  • Leslie 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 number, both of Jews and Gentiles, to believe the gosp...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    AND WITH THESE SAYINGS THEY COULD SCARCELY RESTRAIN THE MULTITUDES FROM SACRIFICING TO THEM. 1. Even will all of this - it was all Paul could do to prevent them for offering sacrifices to them as if...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Yet all these arguments barely kept the people from offering sacrifices in the honor of Paul and Barnabas....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    So hard a matter it is to persuade any to leave off these sins they are accustomed unto, or to rectify such errors in religion which men are brought up in....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 14:18 And G2532 these G5023 sayings G3004 (G5723) scarcely G3433 restrain G2664 (G5656) multitudes G3793 from...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And with these sayings scarce did they restrain the large crowds from doing sacrifice to them.' Thus they sought to turn the people from their foolish path by facing them up to the truth about the li...

  • 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 are on top of the fact that they proclaimed the Good N...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    SCARCE (μολις). Adverb in same sense as old μογις, from μολος, toil.RESTRAINED (κατεπαυσαν). Effective first aorist active indicative of καταπαυω, old verb in causative sense to make abstain from...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 laconic, merely naming Perga and Attalia. This great...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THEY TORE THEIR CLOTHES. This was a symbol of grief, anger, and horror. Compare Matthew 26:65. WE ARE JUST MEN. This shows their complete commitment to _truth_! They would not permit themselves to be...

  • 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 plain at the foot of Taurus, on the great line of commu...

  • 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 gate Beautiful; and a particular statement of it is...

  • 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 yet there was no small temptation in the matter. They migh...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 32:21; Genesis 11:6; Genesis 19:9; Jeremiah 44:16; Jeremia

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

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