Acts 14:1
In Iconium the same thing happened. Paul and Barnabas went to the Jewish synagogue and spoke so convincingly that many of both the Jewish and Greek-speaking worshipers trusted in Jesus.
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John 7:35The Jews said to each other, “Where could he be going that we couldn't find him? Is he planning to go to those scattered among the foreigners, and teach the foreigners?
Acts 9:20He immediately started speaking in the synagogues, saying, “Jesus is the Son of God.”
Acts 13:5Arriving at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their assistant.
Acts 13:46So Paul and Barnabas spoke out strongly, saying “We had to speak the word of God to you first. But now that you're rejecting it—you're deciding that you're not worthy of eternal life—well now we're turning to the foreigners.
Acts 14:2But the Jews that refused to believe in Jesus stirred up the feelings of the foreigners, and poisoned them against the believers.
Acts 16:1Paul went first to Derbe, and then on to Lystra, where he met a believer by the name of Timothy. He was the son of a Jewish Christian mother, and his father was Greek.
Matthew Henry on Acts 14:1
We have, in this chapter, a further account of the progress of the gospel, by the ministry of Paul and Barnabas among the Gentiles; it goes on conquering and to conquer, yet meeting with opposition, as before, among the unbelieving Jews. Here is, I. Their successful preaching of the gospel for some time at Iconium, and their being driven thence by the violence of their persecutors, both Jews and Gentiles, and forced into the neighbouring countries, ver. 1-7 . II. Their healing a lame man at Lystra, and the… Read the whole commentary →