Acts 11:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 1:66
And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.
Acts 2:47
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts 5:14
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
1 Corinthians 3:6-7
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. …
1 Thessalonians 1:5
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

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Ablution Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Blessing Church Congregation Conversion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-26)

We have here an account of the planting and watering of a church at Antioch, the chief city of Syria, reckoned afterwards the third most considerable city of the empire, only Rome and Alexandria being preferred before it, next to whose patriarch that of Antioch took place. It stood where Hamath or Riblah did, which we read of in the Old Testament. It is suggested that Luke, the penman of this hist…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. a great number believed--Thus the accession of Cornelius and his party was not the first admission of uncircumcised Gentiles into the Church. (See on Ac 10:1.) Nay, we read of no influence which the accession of Cornelius and his house had on the further progress of the Gospel among the Gentiles; whereas there here open upon us operations upon the Gentiles from quite a different quarter, and a…