George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 13:44
The whole city. Not only Jews, but a great many Gentiles, which exasperated the envious Jews. (Witham)
The whole city. Not only Jews, but a great many Gentiles, which exasperated the envious Jews. (Witham)
ACTS 13:44 to.n lo,gon tou/ kuri,ou {C} Luke, as well as other New Testament writers, uses the expression o` lo,goj tou/ qeou/ more frequently than o` lo,goj tou/ kuri,ou. 278 In view of the rather e...
Verse 44. _THE NEXT SABBATH DAY_] The good news had spread far and wide, by means of the converted Jews and proselytes. _ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY_] _Jews, proselytes_, and _Gentiles_, came together to...
AND THE NEXT SABBATH-DAY - This was the regular day for worship, and it was natural that a greater multitude should convene on that day than on the other days of the week. CAME ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY -...
PART III The Witness to the Gentiles. The Apostle to the Gentiles; his Ministry and Captivity. Chapter s 13-28 CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Divine Choice. Barnabas and Saul separated unto the work (Acts 1...
THE RESULT: THE MISSIONARIES LEAVE ANTIOCH. Acts 13:42 reads as if the congregation as a whole invited the preachers to speak to them again on the following Sabbath, but a meeting or meetings at once...
THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Acts 13:1-3) Acts 13:1-52; Acts 14:1-28 tell the story of the first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas set out from Antioch. Antioch was 15 miles up the River Orontes...
As they were going out, they kept asking that these things should be spoken to them on the next Sabbath. When the synagogue service had broken up many of the Jews and worshipping proselytes followed P...
THE NEXT SABBATH DAY. the following sabbath; not the same expression as in Acts 13:42. CAME... TOGETHER. was gathered together. ALMOST. Greek. _schedon._ Here, Acts 19:26, and Hebrews 9:22....
_almost the whole city_ Shewing that the Apostles must have been diligently labouring both among Jews and Heathen during the intervening days, and giving additional probability to the explanation sugg...
FURTHER PREACHING BOTH TO JEWS AND GENTILES. JEALOUSY OF THE JEWS, AND EXPULSION OF THE APOSTLES FROM ANTIOCH...
ΚΥΡΊΟΥ for θεοῦ with אAB. _Vulg_. ‘Dei.’ 44. ΣΧΕΔῸΝ ΠΑ͂ΣΑ Ἡ ΠΌΛΙΣ, _almost the whole city_. Shewing that the Apostles must have been labouring diligently, both among Jews and heathen during the inter...
_PAUL PREACHED TO THE GENTILES AND IS PERSECUTED ACTS 13:42-52:_ The people were eager to hear more of the preaching done by Paul and Barnabas on the next Sabbath. Many of both the Jews and Gentiles b...
ΈΡΧΟΜΈΝΩ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить; "в ближайшую субботу" (Schneider; Haenchen). ΣΧΕΔΌΝ (G4975) почти, ΣΥΝΉΧΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΣΥΝΆΓΩ (G4863) собираться, ΆΚΟΫΣΑΙ...
AT ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. Acts 13:14-52. a. In the synagogue, the first sermon of Paul. Acts 13:1. Acts 13:14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the s...
44. So deep an interest kindled in the synagogue, and taking hold of Gentile minds, could not fail to spread widely through the city during the following week, and its progress was doubtless furthered...
And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. AND THE NEXT SABBATH DAY CAME ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY TOGETHER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD - or 'of the Lord,' accord...
33 The rendering first psalm in place of second psalm demands some explanation. Our three great witnesses all read second, and we would have so rendered it, but for the confusion which would result wh...
ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. ST. PAUL'S SERMON IN THE SYNAGOGUE. The cities which the apostles now proceeded to evangelise (Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe) were situated in the southern part of t...
ST. PAUL AS A MISSIONARY 1. Prophets] see on Acts 11:27. SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER] Niger was a Roman cognomen. LUCIUS OF CYRENE] doubtless one of those Cyrenians who first preached at Antioch (Act...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 THE *HOLY SPIRIT CHOOSES BARNABAS AND SAUL, 13:1-3 V1 There were some *prophets and teachers in the *church at Antioch. They were Barnabas,...
THE NEXT SABBATH DAY CAME ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY TOGETHER. — It is clear that the Jewish synagogue could not have held such a crowd, and we are led accordingly to the conclusion either that they throng...
ἐρχ., see critical notes. σχεδὸν, _cf._ Acts 19:26; Hebrews 9:22, each time before πᾶς, and in 2Ma 5:2, 3Ma 5:14; 3Ma 5:45. In classical use as in text, often with πᾶς. συνήχθη, _i.e._, in the synagog...
JEWS REJECT, GENTILES ACCEPT, THE GOSPEL Acts 13:38-52 The doctrine of justification by faith, so closely associated with the work of Paul, is here stated for the first time. In Jesus there is forgiv...
The first most distinctly missionary movement sprang from Antioch, and was independent of all official initiation. A company of those in Antioch sent Saul and Barnabas, and it is declared immediately...
The Response to the Gospel in Antioch of Pisidia As they went out of the synagogue, some were stirred to ask Paul and Barnabas to return the following week to speak again. The next sabbath day saw nea...
The wonderful news of the first Sabbath received universal publicity and brought a great host to hear the apostles the next Sabbath; meanwhile they pressed the work, in every open door, through the we...
And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. (43) Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and...
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...
44._And when the Sabbath came. _The great assembly of the people doth prove that Paul and Barnabas loitered not between the Sabbaths, and they did not take pains with the Gentiles in vain; for the stu...
We come now to the beginning of the direct history of the work, new in some important respects, that is, connected with Paul's mission by the immediate intervention of the Holy Ghost. It is not now Ch...
AND THE NEXT SABBATH DAY,.... The same which is before called the "sabbath between", which was between the first and tenth of Tisri, or between the beginning of the year, and the day of atonement: CA...
And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. Ver. 44. _And the next sabbath day_] The apostles had been busy with them on the foregoing week days, the better...
_And the next sabbath came almost the whole city together_ Idolaters as well as proselytes; _to hear the word of God_ In consequence, it seems, of the report which the Gentiles had spread abroad of wh...
Opposition on the part of the Jews:...
AND THE NEXT SABBATH-DAY CAME ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY TOGETHER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD....
From this time our attention is drawn particularly to the work of Saul, whose name is in this chapter changed to Paul, meaning "little," for one who is the most greatly used of God is, in his own esti...
ON THE NEXT SABBATH ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY CAME TOGETHER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD. 1. One week later - almost the entire population came together. 2. For one week Antioch of Pisidia was buzzing with a...
An extremely large crowd shows up on the next Sabbath. Acts 13:45 "No such overflow crowds came to the synagogue when the Jewish teachers were the speakers" (Reese p. 487). Sadly these men were more i...
42-52 The Jews opposed the doctrine the apostles preached; and when they could find no objection, they blasphemed Christ and his gospel. Commonly those who begin with contradicting, end with blasphem...
The citizens generally resorted thither. TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD; some out of curiosity, some to cavil at it, though some also out of love to it; here was doubtless a mixed congregation....
44. So deep an interest kindled in the synagogue, and taking hold of Gentile minds, could not fail to spread widely through the city during the following week, and its progress was doubtless furthered...
Acts 13:44 G1161 next G2064 (G5740) Sabbath G4521 almost G4975 whole G3956 city G4172 together G4863 ...
PAUL AND HIS COMPANY PREACH IN PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. (13:13-52). Paul ‘and his company' (thus there were at least one or two others besides Mark) left Paphos and sailed across to Perga in Pamphylia. It wi...
‘And the next sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.' And these believers not only ‘continued' in the grace of God, they went everywhere telling everyone about i...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF PAUL'S SPEECH (13:43-52). The principle behind the words of Habakkuk were remarkably ‘fulfilled'. Many of the Jews who were there that day could not face up to the work in their da...
Acts 13:44. AND THE NEXT SABBATH DAY CAME ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY TOGETHER. During the week which had passed since the first preaching of Paul, the apostles had doubtless been earnestly engaged in teach...
THE NEXT SABBATH (τω ερχομενω σαββατω). Locative case, on the coming (ερχομενω, present middle participle of ερχομα) Sabbath. So the best MSS., though some have εχομενω (present middle participle o...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Anti...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem._ «John» that is, John Mark, as we see by chapter 15...
CONTENTS: Paul and Barnabas called. Satanic opposition from a sorcerer. Paul's sermon in the synagogue at Antioch. Opposition from Jews. Paul and Barnabas turn to Gentiles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Ho...
Acts 13:1. _The church that was at Antioch,_ which was counted one of the five apostolic churches. It is the true church by way of eminence, the synagogue having degenerated into a state of warfare wi...
NEARLY EVERYONE IN THE TOWN CAME. This shows us the intense interest generated by preaching the Good News....
_Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia._ PERGA IN PAMPHYLIA Because Perga was little known Pamphylia is subjoined. It was an ancient city on the river Cest...
_And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words._ GROWTH OF APOSTOLIC POWER 1. There are always unexpected hearers arising to give encouragement to the preac...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:44 Since the population of Antioch was mainly Gentile, ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY indicates that the majority who came were Gentiles. ⇐
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:42 Although the response at the synagogue was favorable, the Jews turned against Paul the next Sabbath when a large group of Gentiles showed up. Paul responded by preaching to the...
EXPOSITION ACTS 13:1 _At Antioch., in the Church that was there _for _in the Church that was at Antioch, _A.V.; _prophets, _etc., for _certain prophets, _etc., A.V. and T.R.; _Barnabas, _etc., for _a...
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,...
Genesis 49:10; Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 60:8; Psalms 110:3...