Acts 14:17
But still, he did not leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you the rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
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16In the past ages, he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
18Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas barely kept the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4then I will give you rain in its season; the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
1 Kings 18:1So after many days the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year of the drought, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab and I will send rain on the land.”
Job 5:10He gives rain on the earth, 1 and sends water on the fields. 1
Job 38:26to cause it to rain on lands where no person exists, 1 and on the wilderness, in which there is no one, 1
Psalms 36:5Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, reaches to the heavens; 1 your loyalty reaches to the clouds. 1
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 →