Acts 14:17
though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good — from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,
18and these things saying, scarcely did they restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:4then I have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its fruit;
Deuteronomy 11:14that I have given the rain of your land in its season — sprinkling and gathered — and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil,
1 Kings 18:1And the days are many, and the word of Jehovah hath been unto Elijah in the third year, saying, 'Go, appear unto 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 — no man, A wilderness — no man in it.
Psalms 36:5O Jehovah, in the heavens [is] Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness [is] unto 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 →