Acts 14:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And they called Barnabas , Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 19:35
And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

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Conscience Conscientiousness Decision Honesty Integrity Jupiter Lycaonia Lystra

Commentary

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

(vv. 8-18)

In these verses we have, I. A miraculous cure wrought by Paul at Lystra upon a cripple that had been lame from his birth, such a one as was miraculously cured by Peter and John, Acts 3:2. That introduced the gospel among the Jews, this among the Gentiles; both that and this were designed to represent the impotency of all the children of men in spiritual things: they are lame from their birth, till…

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

(vv. 12)

11-13. in the speech of Lycaonia--whether a corruption of the Greek tongue, which was well enough understood in this region, or the remains of some older tongue, is not known. The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men--the language of an unsophisticated people. But “that which was a superstition in Lycaonia, and for which the whole “creation” groaned, became a reality at Bethlehem” [Webs…