Acts 13:50

the devout and honourable women The conjunction is omitted in the best texts. Read, "the devout women of honourable estate." We read that in Damascus, and we may suppose that it was likely to be the case in other large towns and cities in which Jews abounded, the wives of the men in high position among the heathen were much inclined to the Jewish religion (Josephus, B.J. ii. 20. 2). These would be easily moved by the Jews to take action against the Apostles.

and the chief men of the city As the Jews in Jerusalem had appealed to Pilate and the Roman power to carry out their wishes at the Crucifixion, so the Jews in Antioch excite their heathen magistrates against Paul and Barnabas.

out of their coasts i.e. "from their borders." Antioch and all Pisidia was inland. But the old English "coast" was used for any borderland, and not as now for the "sea-board."