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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 17:4 - 17:4
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consorted - cast in their lot.
with Paul and Silas - Compare 2Co 8:5.
of the chief women - female proselytes of distinction. From the First Epistle to the Thessalonians it appears that the converts were nearly all Gentiles; not only such as had before been proselytes, who would be gained in the synagogue, but such as up to that time had been idolaters (1Th 1:9, 1Th 1:10). During his stay, while Paul supported himself by his own labor (1Th 2:9; 2Th 3:7-9), he received supplies once and again from the Philippians, of which he makes honorable acknowledgment (Phi 4:15, Phi 4:16).