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Acts 14:2
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
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 14:2. _STIRRED UP THE GENTILES_] των εθνων, Such as were mere _heathens_, and thus distinguished from the _Jews_, and the _Greeks_ who were proselytes. _EVIL AFFECTED_] εκακωσαν, _Irritat...
BUT THE UNBELIEVING JEWS ... - See the notes on Acts 13:50. AND MADE THEIR MINDS EVIL-AFFECTED - Irritated, or exasperated them. AGAINST THE BRETHREN - One of the common appellations by which Christ...
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...
UNBELIEVING. Greek. _apeitheo._ Compare App-150. This is the second occurrence. First occurrence John 3:36. Often translated "disobedient". STIRRED UP. Greek. _epegeiro._ See note on Acts 13:50. GENT...
_But the unbelieving Jews_ Better, "But the Jews that were disobedient." The verb is the same which is found John 3:36, where the rendering should be "He that _obeyeth not_the Son shall not see life....
Acts 14:1-7. PREACHING AT ICONIUM. THE APOSTLES FORCED TO FLEE....
ΟἹ ΔῈ�. Render, _but the Jews that were disobedient_. The same verb is found John 3:36, where the rendering should be ‘he that _obeyeth not_ the Son shall not see life.’ The word is stronger than ‘unb...
_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...
ΆΠΕΙΘΉΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΆΠΕΙΘΈΩ (G544) не подчиняться, здесь используется как противоположность вере. Неверие и непокорность предполагают отвержение благой вести (Bruce), _part._ в роли _sub...
BRETHREN— That is, _the Christians;_ of whom this was one appellation before they were so called at Antioch. See on ch. Acts 11:26....
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...
See notes one verse 1...
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. BUT THE UNBELIEVING JEWS, [ apeitheesantes (G544) is preferable to-thountes of the Receive...
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...
The first persecution at Iconium, which probably took the form of arraigning the apostles before the magistrates, failed. Accordingly the second persecution (Acts 14:5) took the form of a popular tumu...
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...
THE UNBELIEVING JEWS STIRRED UP THE GENTILES... — It is the distinguishing feature of nearly all the persecutions in the Acts that they originated in the hostility of the Jews. The case of Demetrius f...
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...
ἀπειθοῦντες, see critical notes. If we read ἀπειθήσαντες, “that were disobedient,” R.V., but _cf._ John 3:36, and Page's note _in loco_. Lumby quotes Bar 1:19, and regards the expression here as stron...
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...
But the (b) unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. (b) Who did not obey the doctrine....
_The unbelieving Jews stirred up, &c. It would hence appear, that the former were not very scrupulous in the means they took to oppose the gospel. They, who would have been dreadfully scandalized to h...
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...
− 2._And those Jews which believed not _Lo, they are persecuted now afresh, and that by the Jews, for they were like firebrands to inflame the minds of the Gentiles; for it is to be thought that the G...
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...
BUT THE UNBELIEVING JEWS STIRRED UP THE GENTILES,.... That part of the Jews, which continued in unbelief, and rejected the doctrine of the apostles, concerning Jesus of Nazareth being the Messiah; the...
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. Ver. 2. _Made their minds evil affected_] Envenomed (εκακωσαν) their minds with rage against...
_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,...
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...
BUT THE UNBELIEVING JEWS STIRRED UP THE GENTILES AND POISONED THEIR MINDS AGAINST THE BRETHREN. 1. Of course, when some believe and convert to Christianity, there are others who are not converted. Th...
"But if some Jews and Gentiles were united in faith, others were united in opposition" (Stott p. 228). Notice how the gospel message makes. clear division between believers and unbelievers and that. p...
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,...
THE UNBELIEVING, or disobedient, JEWS, who did not believe the truths or obey the precepts of the gospel, STIRRED UP THE GENTILES; urging, persuading, and pressing of them, who of themselves (though a...
Acts 14:2 But G1161 unbelieving G544 (G5723) Jews G2453 up G1892 (G5656) Gentiles G1484 and G2532 poisoned...
‘But the Jews who were disobedient stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evilly disposed against the brethren.' But Iconium was a very democratic city with its own broad assembly which d...
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...
Acts 14:2. BUT THE UNBELIEVING JEWS. Gloag calls attention to the fact that of the numerous persecutions recorded in the ‘Acts,' there were only two which were not occasioned by the Jews. STIRRED UP...
THAT WERE DISOBEDIENT (ο απειθησαντες). First aorist active articular participle, not the present απειθουντες as the Textus Receptus has it. But the meaning is probably the Jews that disbelieved, ra...
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 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 13:45; Acts 13:50;...
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...