Acts 14:17
And yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
16who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.
18And with these sayings scarce restrained they the multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
1 Kings 18:1And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
Job 5:10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
Job 38:26To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Psalms 36:5Thy lovingkindness, O LORD, is in the heavens; thy faithfulness reacheth unto 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 →