Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 14:1 - 14:1
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Act 14:1-7. Meeting with similar success and similar opposition at Iconium, Paul and Barnabas flee for their lives to Lystra and Derbe, and preach there.
“After this detailed account of Paul’s labors at Pisidian Antioch, Luke subjoins only brief notices of his further labors, partly because from the nature of the case his discourses must have embraced nearly the same topics, and partly because the consequences that resulted assumed quite a similar shape” [Olshausen].
they went both together into the synagogue - Though Paul was now the prominent speaker and actor, yet in everything Barnabas went along with him.
a ... multitude ... of the Greeks believed - meaning probably the religious proselytes, as opposed to “the Gentiles” mentioned Act 14:2.