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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 14:20 - 14:20
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as the disciples stood round about him - sorrowing. So his labors here had not been in vain: “Disciples” had been gathered, who now rallied around the bleeding body. And one appears to have been gained on this occasion, of far more importance than all the rest - Timotheus. See on Act 16:1-3. (It could scarcely have been at the subsequent visit, Act 14:21, for the reason given in 2Ti 3:10, 2Ti 3:11; while at the third visit, Act 16:1-3, he was already a Christian).
he rose up - It is possible that this recovery was natural; the insensibility occasioned by such treatment as he had received sometimes passing away of itself, and leaving the patient less hurt than appeared. But certainly the impression naturally left on the mind by the words is that the restoration was miraculous; and so the best interpreters understand the words. This is confirmed by what follows.
came into the city - Noble intrepidity!
next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe - a journey for which he could hardly be fit if his recovery had been natural. (As to Derbe, see on Act 14:6).