29And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
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And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-31)Luke here makes no mention of Paul’s journey into Arabia, which he tells us himself was immediately after his conversion, Gal. 1:16 , 17 . As soon as God had revealed his Son in him, that he might preach him, he went not up to Jerusalem , to receive instructions from the apostles (as any other convert would have done, that was designed for the ministry), but he went to Arabia, where there was new…
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