Acts 14:17
But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
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In Context
16Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
18And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
Deuteronomy 11:14Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.
1 Kings 18:1Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.
Job 5:10Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
Job 38:26Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
Psalms 36:5\36:4\He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
Matthew Henry on Acts 14:9-19
The Lame Man Healed at Lystra; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. 8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the… Read the whole commentary →