4But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. …
Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)In these verses we have, I. The preaching of the gospel in Iconium, whither the apostles were forced to retire from Antioch. As the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the church, so the banishment of the confessors has helped to scatter that seed. Observe, 1. How they made the first offer of the gospel to the Jews in their synagogues ; thither they went, not only as to a place of meeting, b…
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