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Acts 13:2

ACTS—NOTE ON Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting. “They” likely refers to the whole congregation, although the five prophets may well have given the Spirit’s message.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "And fasting" Fasting was. completely voluntary practice and is unregulated as far as time is concerned; there are not set times or days for fasting. These men are busy serving God, and teaching other...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Bible Study New Testament

    WHILE THEY WERE SERVING THE LORD AND FASTING. Fasting and prayer often go together, and these men must have been asking God to show them how they could do more to spread the Good News of Christ. THE H...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate unto Me Barnabas and Saul._ THE COMPLETION OF THE APOSTOLATE This act was no conferring of the apostleship by the prophets a...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:1. IN THE CHURCH THAT WAS AT ANTIOCH.—Better _at_ or _in Antioch, in_ or _throughout_, or _for the benefit of the Church_, κατά having all these different meanings. CERTAIN...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 16:37; 1 Chronicles 16:4; 1 Corinthians 12:11; 1 Corinthians 7:5;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Ministered [λ ε ι τ ο υ ρ γ ο υ ν τ ω ν]. See on the kindred noun ministration, Luke 1:23. This noun has passed through the following meanings : 1. A civil service, especially in the technical languag...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them — This was not ordaining them. St. Paul was ordained long before, and that not of men, neither by man: it was only inducting him...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, How the Holy Ghost takes occasion when the teachers of the church at Antioch were assembled together in God's presence, and about his work, to give them particular instructions and direc...

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