Antioch Arrived Departed Entered Entering Passed Passing Perga Pisidia Pisid'ia Pisidian Sabbath Sabbath-day Sat Seated Synagogue Themselves

13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in {g} Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

(g) This distinguishes between it, and Antioch which was in Syria.

13:14 They came to Antioch. They seemed to have passed at once from Perga to the Antioch that lay in the interior. It must be distinguished from the Antioch of Syria before named (Ac 11:22). There were several Antiochs, this one being the capital of the province of Pisidia. Vast ruins still mark its site.

Went into the synagogue. In every Gentile city where there was a Jewish synagogue the gospel was preached first to the Jews by the apostolic preachers. The course of Paul and Barnabas here is an example of their custom.

13:14 Antioch in Pisidia - Different from the Antioch mentioned Acts 13:1.

13:14-31 When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare reading of the Scriptures in public assemblies is not enough; they should be expounded, and the people exhorted out of them. This is helping people in doing that which is necessary to make the word profitable, to apply it to themselves. Every thing is touched upon in this sermon, which might best prevail with Jews to receive and embrace Christ as the promised Messiah. And every view, however short or faint, of the Lord's dealings with his church, reminds us of his mercy and long-suffering, and of man's ingratitude and perverseness. Paul passes from David to the Son of David, and shows that this Jesus is his promised Seed; a Saviour to do that for them, which the judges of old could not do, to save them from their sins, their worst enemies. When the apostles preached Christ as the Saviour, they were so far from concealing his death, that they always preached Christ crucified. Our complete separation from sin, is represented by our being buried with Christ. But he rose again from the dead, and saw no corruption: this was the great truth to be preached.

Antioch Arrived Departed Entered Entering Passed Passing Perga Pisidia Pisid'ia Sabbath Sabbath-Day Sat Synagogue Themselves

Antioch Arrived Departed Entered Entering Passed Passing Perga Pisidia Pisid'ia Sabbath Sabbath-Day Sat Synagogue Themselves


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