Acts 14:17
Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
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16who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
18Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:14that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
1 Kings 18:1After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
Job 5:10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
Job 38:26to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
Psalms 36:5Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
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 →