16Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
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But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. …
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-41)Perga in Pamphylia was a noted place, especially for a temple there erected to the goddess Diana, yet nothing at all is related of what Paul and Barnabas did there, only that thither they came (Acts 13:13), and thence they departed , Acts 13:14. But the history of the apostles’ travels, as that of Christ’s, passes by many things worthy to have been recorded, because, if all had been written, the w…
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