Verse 47. _FOR SO THE LORD COMMANDED US_] The apostles could quote a pertinent scripture for every thing they did; because the outlines of the whole Gospel dispensation are founded in the _law_ and t...
FOR SO ... - Paul, as usual, appeals to the Scriptures to justify his course. Here he appeals to the Old Testament rather than to the command of the Saviour, because the Jews recognized the authority...
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...
LIGHT. Greek. _phos._ App-130. The quotation is from Isaiah 49:6. This commission to Jehovah's Servant is cited as their authority for turning to the Gentiles. THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE. to be. UNTO. a...
_so hath the Lord commanded us_ And the Lord's command which the Apostle quotes is from Isaiah 49:6, which shews that from the prophetic times the reception of the Gentiles was made manifest in the co...
ΟὝΤΩΣ ΓᾺΡ ἘΝΤΈΤΑΛΤΑΙ ἩΜΙ͂Ν Ὁ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ, _for thus hath the Lord commanded us_. The Lord’s command which the Apostle quotes is from Isaiah 49:6, and it shews that from the prophetic times the reception of...
FURTHER PREACHING BOTH TO JEWS AND GENTILES. JEALOUSY OF THE JEWS, AND EXPULSION OF THE APOSTLES FROM ANTIOCH...
_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...
DISCOURSE: 1780 THE GENTILES RECEIVE THE GOSPEL Acts 13:46. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put i...
FOR SO HATH THE LORD COMMANDED US,— The mighty have argued this very properly from the passage which they quote, as well as from their very commission itself. Comp. Matthew 28:19 and Acts 1:8. But St....
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 46...
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. FOR SO HATH THE LORD COMMANDED US, SAYING...
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...
13:47 earth. (b-29) See Isaiah 49:6 ....
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...
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...
See Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:6; Luke 2:32....
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,...
I HAVE SET THEE TO BE A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES. — The context of the quotation has to be remembered as showing that St. Paul identified the “Servant of the Lord” in Isaiah 49:6 with the person of the C...
γὰρ : this action of the Apostles in turning to the Gentiles was not arbitrary. Τέθεικα, _cf._ Isaiah 49:6 (Luke 2:32). In LXX [265] reads δέδωκα instead of Τέθ., and inserts after it εἰς διαθήκην γέν...
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...
The vast Gentile crowd aroused the old prejudice of the Jews so they could no longer keep the peace. Therefore the apostles turn to the Gentiles, who greatly rejoice to think that all the riches of th...
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...
47._As he hath commanded. _The place is taken out of Isaiah, where, notwithstanding, God doth rather speak unto his Son than unto the apostles. But we must note, that many things which the Scripture a...
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...
FOR SO HATH THE LORD COMMANDED US,.... For though Christ in his first commission restrained his disciples from going into the Gentiles, and preaching to them, yet when he enlarged their commission aft...
For so hath the Lord commanded us, _saying_, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. Ver. 47. _I have set thee_] This, spoken a...
_Then Paul and Barnabas_ Perceiving that no good impression could be made upon them; _waxed bold_ Used great freedom of speech; _and said, It was necessary_ According to the general instructions of ou...
SAYING; ISAIAH 49:6. BE FOR SALVATION; be a Saviour. UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH; to all people....
FOR SO HATH THE LORD COMMANDED US, SAYING, I HAVE SET THEE TO BE A LIGHT OF THE GENTILES THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE FOR SALVATION UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. On the following Sabbath the fruit of Paul's f...
Opposition on the part of the Jews:...
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...
FOR SO THE LORD HAS COMMANDED US: _‘I HAVE SET YOU AS A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES, THAT YOU SHOULD BE FOR SALVATION TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH._ '"__ 1. Isaiah 49:6 is quoted to show the Jews that preachin...
Even the Old Testament had predicted preaching and salvation being brought to the Gentiles (Isaiah 2:6). Once again note who has Scripture on their side! "The aged Simon, who had been promised he woul...
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...
Because that prophecy must be fulfilled which we find, ISAIAH 49:6, the apostle infers aright, that they were _commanded_ to publish Christ unto the Gentiles; for _how shall they believe in him of who...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V And who was it that said to Christ concerning giving light to the world: "I have set Thee as a light to the Gentiles"[530]...
Acts 13:47 For G1063 so G3779 Lord G2962 commanded G1781 (G5769) us G2254 set G5087 (G5758) you...
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...
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...
“For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you for a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth.' And they were comforted by this one fact....
Acts 13:47. I HAVE S et THEE TO BE A LIGHT OF THE GENTILES, THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE FOR SALVATION UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. The apostles now show the assembled crowds that it was no momentary impulse...
FOR SO HATH THE LORD COMMANDED US (ουτως γαρ εντεταλτα ημιν ο κυριος). Perfect middle indicative of εντελλω, poetic (Pindar) and late verb to enjoin (Acts 1:2). The command of the Lord Paul finds in...
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...
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...
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...
FOR THIS IS THE COMMANDMENT. See Acts 26:16-18. Paul quotes Isaiah 49:6 to prove what he says. Jesus is the _world's_ Savior! God treats all men on the same basis (Acts 10:34)_!_...
_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 13:46 Citing Isaiah 49:6, Paul stated he was now TURNING TO THE GENTILES. Paul and Barnabas do the work of the “servant” described in...
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 13:45. CONTRADICTING AND BLASPHEMING.—The best MSS. Omit “contradicting” (Lachmann, Westcott and Hort); but as it is neither superfluous nor Hebraistic (Hackett), and defines...
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,...
Acts 1:8; Acts 15:14; Acts 22:21; Acts 26:17; Acts 26:18;...
For so hath the Lord commanded us — By sending us forth, and giving us an opportunity of fulfilling what he had foretold. I have set thee — The Father speaks to Christ. Isaiah 49:6....