George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 14:3
To the word of his grace. That is, of the gospel, and the law of grace. (Witham)
To the word of his grace. That is, of the gospel, and the law of grace. (Witham)
ACTS 14:3 @evpi.# tw|/ lo,gw| On the one hand, the overwhelming weight of external evidence reads tw|/ lo,gw| (î74 ac B C D E L P Y and apparently all minuscules), whereas only a few witnesses read...
ACTS 14:2-7 The Western text of these verses adds a number of details that serve, among other things, to smooth away what, in the ordinary text, is a seeming lack of coherence between verses Acts 14:...
Verse Acts 14:3. _LONG TIME THEREFORE ABODE THEY_] Because they had great success, therefore they continued a long time, gaining many converts, and building up those who had believed, in their most ho...
LONG TIME THEREFORE - It seems probable that there were here no forcible or public measures to expel them, as there had been at Antioch Acts 13:50, and they therefore regarded it as their duty to rema...
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...
ICONIUM. From Antioch to Iconium was a journey of about thirty hours, mostly on a new Roman road. It was the frontier city of Phrygia, but was now incorporated in the Roman province of Galatia. Its ma...
ON TO ICONIUM (Acts 14:1-7)...
It happened in Iconium that they went in the same way into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke to such effect that a great crowd of the Jews and of the Greeks believed. But the Jews who did not believ...
ABODE. Greek. _diatribo._ See note on Acts 12:19. SPEAKING BOLDLY. Greek. _parrhesiazomai._ See note on Acts 9:27. IN. Greek. _epi._ App-104. Indicating the subject of their discourse. WHICH. = Who...
_Long time therefore abode they_ There are two results described in this and the following verse as the consequences of the Jewish opposition. First, a long stay was necessary that by the words of the...
Acts 14:1-7. PREACHING AT ICONIUM. THE APOSTLES FORCED TO FLEE....
καὶ before ΔΙΔΌΝΤΙ omitted with ABDEP. Not represented in _Vulg_. 3. ἹΚΑΝῸΝ ΜῈΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΧΡΌΝΟΝ ΔΙΈΤΡΙΨΑΝ, _long time therefore abode they_. There are two results described in this and the following vers...
_PAUL AND BARNABAS IN ICONIUM ACTS 14:1-7:_ The missionary journey carried the brethren to Iconium. There they spoke of the grace of God and His gospel. They taught the people with power, boldness and...
ΔΙΈΤΡΙΨΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΑΤΡΊΒΩ (G1304) находиться, пребывать, ΠΑΡΡΗΣΊΑΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (сопутств.) от_ ΠΑΡΡΗΣΙΆΖΟΜΑΙ (G3955) говорить свободно, быть смелым (_см._ Acts 9:27)....
LONG TIME THEREFORE— Some think the 2nd verse should be included in a parenthesis, and that the particle _therefore,_ refers to the success which Paul and Barnabas had met with at Iconium, mentioned A...
AT ICONIUM. Acts 14:1-6 a. Acts 14:1 And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed...
3-7. This divided and excited state of the public mind continued during the whole time that Paul and Barnabas remained in the city. (3) "_They continued there a long time, speaking boldly respecting t...
Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. LONG TIME THEREFORE ABODE THEY...
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...
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...
For the importance of miracles as a sign of apostleship, see 2 Corinthians 12:12; Romans 15:18....
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...
LONG TIME THEREFORE ABODE THEY. — This can hardly be understood as involving a stay of less than several months, during which, Paul and Barnabas, as before, were working for their livelihood. SPEAKIN...
CHAPTER 9 ST. PAUL'S ORDINATION AND FIRST MISSIONARY TOUR. Acts 13:2; Acts 13:14; Acts 14:1; Acts 14:26 We have now arrived at what we might call t...
ἱκανὸν μὲν οὖν χ. οὖν : as a result from the two previous verses, the accession to their numbers and the disaffection. Blass sees in the aorists ἐπήγ. and ἐκάκ. a proof that the disaffected Jews succe...
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...
(2) Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. (2) We should not leave our p...
Arriving in Iconium, they enter the Jewish synagogue, preach with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, and a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks are converted to the Christhood of Jesus; meanwhil...
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. (2) But the unbeliev...
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...
− 3._A long time. _Luke declareth here, that Paul and Barnabas did not depart the city so soon as they saw some set against them, for when he saith that they behaved themselves boldly, he giveth us an...
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...
LONG TIME THEREFORE ABODE THEY,.... At Iconium, undaunted and not discouraged, at the treatment they met with: but continued, SPEAKING BOLDLY IN THE LORD; using great freedom of speech, and showing g...
Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. Ver. 3. _Which gave testimony to...
_But the unbelieving Jews_ Who were greatly provoked at the growing success of the gospel, and studied all they could to put a stop to its progress; _stirred up the Gentiles_ The idolatrous Gentiles,...
GAVE TESTIMONY; proved the truth of what they taught, by enabling them in his name to work miracles....
PAUL AND BARNABAS AT ICONIUM AND LYSTRA. Success and persecution at Iconium:...
LONG TIME THEREFORE ABODE THEY, SPEAKING BOLDLY IN THE LORD, WHICH GAVE TESTIMONY UNTO THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, AND GRANTED SIGNS AND WONDERS TO BE DONE BY THEIR HANDS....
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...
THEREFORE THEY STAYED THERE A LONG TIME, SPEAKING BOLDLY IN THE LORD, WHO WAS BEARING WITNESS TO THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, GRANTING SIGNS AND WONDERS TO BE DONE BY THEIR HANDS. 1. Paul seems to thrive o...
But Paul and Barnabas held their ground. They stayed there. long time due to both the number of conversions and the amount of opposition. There is opposition here but there appears to be no attempt to...
1-7 The apostles spake so plainly, with such evidence and proof of the Spirit, and with such power; so warmly, and with such concern for the souls of men; that those who heard them could not but say,...
LONG TIME THEREFORE ABODE THEY, to strengthen the new converts against the opposition they met with in the way of Christ, willingly partaking with them in their afflictions for Christ's sake. SPEAKING...
3-7. This divided and excited state of the public mind continued during the whole time that Paul and Barnabas remained in the city. (3) "_ They continued there a long time, speaking boldly respecting...
Acts 14:3 Therefore G3303 G3767 stayed G1304 (G5656) long G2425 time G5550 boldly G3955 (G5740) in...
THE MINISTRY IN ICONIUM (14:1-7). Having been expelled unexpectedly from the Roman colony of Pisidian Antioch a decision had to be made as to which road to take. The Via Sebaste (Augustus Road) which...
‘For a long time therefore they tarried there speaking boldly in the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.' Meanwhile Paul and his part...
Acts 14:3. LONG TIME. This first mission of Paul and Barnabas is computed to have occupied between three and four years (see the note on Acts 14:27). The ‘long time' may well be supposed to have inclu...
LONG TIME THEREFORE (ικανον μεν ουν χρονον). Accusative of duration of time (possibly six months) and note μεν ουν. There is an antithesis in εσχισθη δε (verse Acts 14:4) and in verse Acts 14:5 (εγε...
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...
BUT THE JEWS WHO WOULD NOT BELIEVE. Christ brings division (Matthew 10:34-36). Those who refuse to believe, hate and fight against the Good News (Acts 8:1-3; Acts 9:1-2). [But like Paul, some change.]...
_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...
_HOMILETICAL ANALYSIS_.—_Acts 14:1_ Paul and Barnabas in Iconium; or, continued Opposition from the Jews I. THEIR OCCUPATION IN ICONIUM.— 1. _The town and its population. The town._ Compelled to ret...
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...
1 Corinthians 16:8; 1 Corinthians 16:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; Acts 13:46;...
Long [ι κ α ν ο ν]. See on Luke 7:6. Abode. See on ch. Acts 12:19. In the Lord. Lit., upon [ε π ι] the Lord : in reliance on him....
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...
Note here, 1. The manner of the apostles' preaching at Iconium: THEY SPAKE BOLDLY: that is, openly in the synagogues: and there with great freedom and plainness of speech asserted truth, condemned err...