Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Acts 13:3
(2) And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid [their] hands on them, they sent [them] away.
(2) Fasting and solemn prayers were used before the laying on of hands.
(2) And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid [their] hands on them, they sent [them] away.
(2) Fasting and solemn prayers were used before the laying on of hands.
ACTS 13:3 proseuxa,menoi The addition of pa,ntej after proseuxa,menoi in codex Bezae is a typical Western expansion. The omission of avpe,lusan by the same manuscript must be accounted a scribal blun...
Verse Acts 13:3. _AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED, AND LAID_ THEIR _HANDS ON THEM_] 1. _They fasted_: this was probably done by the whole Church. 2. _They prayed_, that God would bless and prosp...
AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED - They were fasting when they were commanded to set them apart. Yet this probably refers to an appointed day of prayer, with reference to this very purpose. The first formal m...
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 CHURCH AT ANTIOCH: THE SENDING OUT OF BARNABAS AND SAUL. Prophets and teachers are mentioned by Paul (1 Corinthians 12:28) after apostles; at Antioch there are no apostles, the prophets and teache...
In the local church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers. There were Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius from Cyrene, and Manaen, who was brought up with Herod the tetrarch, an...
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...
WHEN THEY HAD. having. PRAYED. Greek. _proseuchomai._ App-134. SENT... AWAY. Greek. _apoluo._ App-174....
This verse implies a solemn dedication service at the end of the ministration and fasting with which the devotions of the Church had commenced....
ΤΌΤΕ ΝΗΣΤΕΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ. This verse indicates that there was a solemn dedication service at the end of the ministration and fasting with which the devotions of the Church had commenced....
Acts 13:1-12. BEGINNING OF SAUL’S FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY. HE VISITS CYPRUS...
_THE MISSION OF PAUL AND BARNABAS ACTS 13:1-3:_ Antioch in Syria was located about 300 miles north of Jerusalem, and 16 miles from the Mediterranean Sea. It became the starting place for Paul's missio...
ΝΗΣΤΕΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Acts 13:2. ΠΡΟΣΕΥΞΆΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΟΜΑΙ (G4336) молиться. ΈΠΙΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΠΙΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G2007) возлагать. Возл...
THE CHURCH IN THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE WORLD Acts 13:1, Acts 28:31 THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY 1. AT ANTIOCH. Acts 13:1-3. 1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets an...
See notes one verse 2...
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED. As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting when this supernatural...
17 The death of James and the escape of Peter mark a crisis in the history of the kingdom proclamation. The power in Jerusalem passes out of the hands of the apostles into the hands of James, the Lord...
This was the apostolic custom to fast at ordinations: see Acts 14:23. ACTS 13:4 TO ACTS 15:35; FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY AND COUNCIL OF JERUSALEM. During this journey St. Paul conclusively established...
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...
THE CHURCH IN ANTIOCH, 35-47 A.D. (ACTS 11:19 TO ACTS 13:3) 19-26. Extension of the Church to Antioch. Admission of Gentile members. Antioch in N. Syria ranked next to Alexandria, as the third city in...
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,...
AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED. — The repetition of the words that had been used in Acts 13:2 seems to imply that the fast was prolonged till the laying-on of hands had been completed. The new co...
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 th
τότε probably indicating a new and special act of fasting and prayer. But is the subject of the sentence the whole _Ecclesia_, or only the prophets and teachers mentioned before? Ramsay maintains that...
BEGINNING A MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN Acts 13:1-12 This is one of the greatest Chapter s in the New Testament, making a new departure in the ministry of the gospel, which henceforth begins to pass out to t...
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...
Barnabas' and Saul's Special Work Once Barnabas and Saul had completed their task of delivering the gift for the needy saints in Jerusalem, they returned to Antioch. Barnabas' cousin, John Mark, also...
Fasting and prayer, imposing their hands upon them. By which is clearly expressed, the manner in which the ministers of God were, and are still ordained bishops, priests, deacons in the Church. (Witha...
_“Then fasting, and praying, and laying hands on them, they sent them away.”_ This is all the ordination you can find in the New Testament. The great ecclesiastical institution conferring exclusive pr...
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod th...
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...
_SEPARATION AND ORDINATION_ ‘As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work where-unto I have called them. And when they had fasted and pr...
3._When they had fasted and prayed. _That they may obey the oracle, they do not only send Paul and Barnabas away; but also with a solemn rite they appoint them to be the apostles of the Gentiles; it i...
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...
AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED,.... Not when they had done fasting and praying, at the time the Holy Ghost made an impulse on their minds, to separate two of their brethren to a work they were ap...
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid _their_ hands on them, they sent _them_ away. Ver. 3. _Laid their hands on them_] So separating and consecrating them to the work, as they did of old the...
LAID THEIR HANDS ON THEM; the mode of setting them apart to their work....
AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED, AND LAID THEIR HANDS ON THEM, THEY SENT THEM AWAY. Luke here begins the second great part of his book of the Acts. After having narrated the story of the establish...
PAUL AND BARNABAS ON THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS. Acts 13:1 Barnabas and Saul delegated as missionaries:...
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...
THEN, HAVING FASTED AND PRAYED, AND LAID HANDS ON THEM, THEY SENT _THEM_ AWAY. 1. Fast and pray - Often these words are used together. A conscious decision to take a day and spend it without food is...
"When they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them" Seeing that Paul already was an apostle, this laying on of hands was not for the purpose of conferring spiritual gifts and neither was th...
1-3 What an assemblage was here! In these names we see that the Lord raises up instruments for his work, from various places and stations in life; and zeal for his glory induces men to give up flatte...
WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED; a good preparation to enter into any business with, whereby they acknowledged that all success must come from God. Our blessed Saviour himself would not enter upon his...
Acts 13:3 Then G5119 fasted G3522 (G5660) and G2532 prayed G4336 (G5666) and G2532 laid G2007 hands...
THE EXPANSION OF THE WORD IN CYPRUS AND ASIA MINOR, WITH SATAN'S COUNTERATTACK BEING DEFEATED AT AN ASSEMBLY IN JERUSALEM, WHICH IS THEN FOLLOWED BY FURTHER MINISTRY (13:1-18:22). Jerusalem having for...
THE MINISTRY OF PAUL AND BARNABAS RESULTS IN THE COUNTER-ATTACK OF SATAN AND THE GATHERING AT JERUSALEM (13:1-15:35). Leaving Antioch under the direct commissioning of the Holy Spirit, in a parallel c...
‘Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away (literally ‘released them').' The laying on of hands confirms that it was well known what that work was to be,...
Acts 13:3. AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED, AND LAID THEIR HANDS ON THEM. This their final consecration took place on another occasion. Ewald suggests it was performed at one of the usual public a...
WHEN THEY HAD FASTED (νηστευσαντες). Either finishing the same fast in verse Acts 13:2 or another one (Hackett), but clearly a voluntary fast.LAID THEIR HANDS UPON THEM (επιθεντες τας χειρας αυτοι...
Acts 13:2 The Heroism of Foreign Missions. I. The first element of heroism is the quality of ideality the power, that is, of getting hold of the idea of any cause or occupation, or of life in general...
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...
AND SENT THEM OFF. Paul was already an apostle. This simple ceremony _identifies_ he and Barnabas as men who have been chosen for a special mission. These are the first two men to be sent on a tour of...
_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...
_And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away._ UNDYING FAME History has contemptuously obliterated from her annals the names of countless kings, who have se...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:3 THEY. Probably the entire congregation. The laying on of hands was a “commissioning,” indicating the church’s support of the two in their mission. It also provided a physical sy...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:1 The Witness in Cyprus and Southern Galatia. Chapters Acts 13:1 and Acts 14:1 re
_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...
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 Timothy 4:14; 1 Timothy 5:22; 2 Timothy 1:6; 2 Timothy 2:2; 3 John 1:
Then having fasted — Again. Thus they did also, Acts 14:23....