Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 13:43
Who speaking to them — More familiarly, persuaded them to continue — For trials were at hand, in the grace of God — That is, to adhere to the Gospel or Christian faith.
Who speaking to them — More familiarly, persuaded them to continue — For trials were at hand, in the grace of God — That is, to adhere to the Gospel or Christian faith.
ACTS 13:43 Barnaba|/ {A} After Barnaba|/ 614 _al_ syrh with * insert avxiou/ntej baptisqh/nai (“asking that they be baptized”), an addition which, as Haenchen says, was made in order to give content...
Verse 43. _MANY OF THE JEWS_] Direct descendants from some of the twelve tribes; _and religious proselytes_, heathens who had been converted to Judaism, and, having submitted to circumcision, had beco...
WHEN THE CONGREGATION - Greek: when the synagogue was dissolved. BROKEN UP - Dismissed. It does not mean that it was broken up by violence or disorder. It was dismissed in the usual way. MANY OF THE...
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...
CONGREGATION. synagogue. BROKEN UP. released. Greek. _luo,_ same word as "loosed" in Acts 13:25. RELIGIOUS. worshipping. Greek. _sebomai._ App-137. PROSELYTES. See note on Matthew 23:15. SPEAKING T...
_religious_(devout) _proselytes_ Perhaps applied to the proselytes of righteousness as distinguished from the proselytes of the gate. _persuaded them to continue in the grace of God_ as Barnabas in li...
FURTHER PREACHING BOTH TO JEWS AND GENTILES. JEALOUSY OF THE JEWS, AND EXPULSION OF THE APOSTLES FROM ANTIOCH...
ΤΩ͂Ν ΣΕΒΟΜΈΝΩΝ ΠΡΟΣΗΛΎΤΩΝ, _of devout proselytes_. This name may have been used to distinguish those proselytes who conformed entirely to Judaism from the proselytes of the gate. ἜΠΕΙΘΟΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟῪΣ ΠΡΟΣΜ...
_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...
ΛΥΘΕΊΣΗΣ _aor. pass. part. (temp.) fem. gen. sing. от_ ΛΎΩ (G3089) отпускать; здесь: прерывать собрание в синагоге (Barrett). _Gen. abs._ ΉΚΟΛΟΎΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ (G190) следовать, с...
IN THE GRACE OF GOD.— In that religious disposition which divine grace had produced in them, or in the faith and practice of the gospel, which is often called _the grace of God,_ and _the word of his...
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...
See notes one verse 42...
Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. NOW WHEN THE C...
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...
13:43 worshipping (a-17) The word translated 'worshipping,' 'worshippers,' and 'worshipped' at verses 43 and 50, also at chs. 16.14; 17.4 and 17, and 18.7, signified a numerous class of Gentiles who,...
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,...
WHEN THE CONGREGATION WAS BROKEN UP. — Better, as keeping to the usual rendering, _the synagogue._ The two preachers withdrew to their inn or lodging, and were followed by many of both classes of thei...
λυθ. δὲ : Paul and Barnabas had gone out before the synagogue was formally broken up; δέ marks the contrast in the case of those who followed them to hear more. τῶν δεβ. προσ.: only here. σεβ. τὸν Θεό...
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...
Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and (r) religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. (r) Who had f...
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...
43._Who speaking. _The sense is doubtful. For it may be referred unto the Jews and proselytes, that they exhorted Paul and Barnabas that they should not faint, but stand stoutly in the grace of God. N...
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...
NOW WHEN THE CONGREGATION WAS BROKEN UP,.... Or "the synagogue"; not the place, but the people that met in it; when they were "dismissed", as the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it; either in...
Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. Ver. 43. _To cont...
_When the Jews were gone out_ Or rather, _while they were going out_, as the original expression means; _of the synagogue_ For probably many of them, not bearing to hear him, went out before he had do...
RELIGIOUS PROSELYTES; Gentiles who had embraced the Jewish religion. IN THE GRACE OF GOD; in the profession and practice of the gospel....
The conclusion of the sermon:...
NOW, WHEN THE CONGREGATION WAS BROKEN UP, MANY OF THE JEWS AND RELIGIOUS PROSELYTES FOLLOWED PAUL AND BARNABAS, WHO, SPEAKING TO THEM, PERSUADED THEM TO CONTINUE IN THE GRACE OF GOD. Since the facts a...
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...
NOW WHEN THE CONGREGATION HAD BROKEN UP, MANY OF THE JEWS AND DEVOUT PROSELYTES FOLLOWED PAUL AND BARNABAS, WHO, SPEAKING TO THEM, PERSUADED THEM TO CONTINUE IN THE GRACE OF GOD. 1. Many Jews were co...
During that week Paul and Barnabas urged those who appeared to be receptive to continue in God's favor. that is to continue to listen and believe. "Keep on believing, that they may remain in the spher...
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 CONGREGATION WAS BROKEN UP; the congregation was dissolved, by the offence the Jews generally had taken at the doctrine of the apostles. RELIGIOUS PROSELYTES; these proselytes were so called, from...
Acts 13:43 Now G1161 congregation G4864 up G3089 (G5685) many G4183 Jews G2453 and G2532 devout G4576 ...
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...
‘Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.' But aside from those who...
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 13:43. TO CONTINUE IN THE GRACE OF GOD. No doubt the very words of Paul used to these Jews and proselytes who followed the missionaries to their temporary home in the city. It was a very favourit...
WHEN THE SYNAGOGUE BROKE UP (λυθεισης της συναγωγης). Genitive absolute of first aorist passive participle of λυω. Apparently Paul and Barnabas had gone out before the synagogue was formally dismis...
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...
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...
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...
THE PEOPLE INVITED THEM. They wanted to learn more about God's act in Christ. LIVING IN THE GRACE OF GOD. By trusting and obeying him. They could not do this if they rejected Christ. The apostles urge...
_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 13:42 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...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:13. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY.—Note the two changes—first of Saul’s name, which is henceforth Paul, and next of Paul’s position in the mission as leader rather than as follower,...
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,...
1 John 2:28; 1 Peter 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 5:11;...
Religious [σ ε β ο μ ε ν ω ν]. Lit., worshipping. Compare ver. 50 and ch. 16 14. Proselytes [π ρ ο σ η λ υ τ ω ν]. Originally, one who arrives at a place; a stranger; thence of one who comes over to...