Acts 14:17
Even so he still provided evidence of himself by doing good, sending you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons, providing all the food you need, and filling you with happiness.”
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In Context
16In past times he allowed all the nations to follow their own ways.
18With these words they barely managed to stop the crowds from offering sacrifices to them.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4I will make sure it rains at the right time so that the ground will grow good crops and the fruit trees will be productive.
Deuteronomy 11:14then I will send rain for your land at the right time, rain in autumn and spring, so that you can harvest your grain, new wine, and olive oil.
1 Kings 18:1Sometime later, during the third year, a message from the Lord came to Elijah: “Go and appear before Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth.”
Job 5:10He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.
Job 38:26Who brings rain to an uninhabited land, to a desert where nobody lives,
Psalms 36:5Lord, your faithful love reaches to the heavens, your trustworthiness to the clouds.
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 →