Acts 13:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Acts 13:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 6:6
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
2 Timothy 2:2
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Acts 14:23
And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
1 Timothy 4:14
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Acts 13:2
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

Topics

Apostles Call Church Congregation Devotion Ecclesiasticism Fasting Fraternity

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

We have here a divine warrant and commission to Barnabas and Saul to go and preach the gospel among the Gentiles, and their ordination to that service by the imposition of hands, with fasting and prayer. I. Here is an account of the present state of the church at Antioch, which was planted, Acts 11:20. 1. How well furnished it was with good ministers; there were there certain prophets and teachers…

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

(vv. 3)

3. laid their hands on them--(See on Ac 6:6)--“recommending them to the grace of God for the work which they had to fulfil” (Ac 14:26). sent them away--with the double call--of the Spirit first, and next of the Church. So clothed, their mission is thus described: “They being sent forth by the Holy Ghost.” Have we not here for all time the true principle of appointment to sacred offices?