Acts 14:17
though, indeed, He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good—giving rains to us from Heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness”;
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16who in the past generations permitted all the nations to go on in their ways,
18and saying these things, they scarcely restrained the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4then I have given your rains in their season, and the land has given her produce, and the tree of the field gives its fruit;
Deuteronomy 11:14then I have given the rain of your land in its season—autumn rain and spring rain—and you have gathered your grain, and your new wine, and your oil,
1 Kings 18:1And the days are many, and the word of YHWH has been to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, appear to Ahab, and I give rain on the face of the ground”;
Job 5:10Who is giving rain on the face of the land, || And is sending waters on the out-places.
Job 38:26To cause [it] to rain on a land [with] no man, || A wilderness [with] no man in it.
Psalms 36:5O YHWH, Your kindness [is] in the heavens, || Your faithfulness [is] 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 →