Acts 14:17
Although, not without witness, he left himself, doing good, from heaven, upon you, giving rain and fruitful seasons, filling, with food and gladness, your hearts.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
16Who in the bygone generations suffered all the nations to be going on in their own ways,—
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4Then will I give your rains in their season,—And the land shall yield her increase, And, the trees of the field, shall yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:14then [saith he] I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain; so shalt thou gather in thy corn, and thy new wine and thine oil;
1 Kings 18:1And it came to pass, after many days, that, the word of Yahweh, came unto Elijah, in the third year, saying,—Go, shew thyself unto Ahab, that I may send rain upon the face of the ground.
Job 5:10Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;
Job 38:26To give rain over the no-man’s land, the desert, where no son of earth is;
Psalms 36:5O Yahweh! in the heavens, is thy lovingkindness, Thy faithfulness, as far as the fleecy 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 →