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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Acts 14:14-18

The horrified speech of Paul: v. 14. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, v. 15. and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein; v. 16. who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. v. 17. ... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Acts 14:8-20

§ II. The healing of a cripple in Lystra induces the people to offer idolatrous worship, which Paul and Barnabas with difficulty repress; nevertheless, Paul is afterwards, at the instigation of Jews who came from Antioch and Iconium, nearly slainActs 14:8-208And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent [powerless] in his feet, being3 [om. being] a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked4: 9The same [This man] heard5 Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding [looking at] him, and... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Acts 14:12-22

Acts DEIFIED AND STONED Act_14:11 - Act_14:22 . The scene at Lystra offers a striking instance of the impossibility of eliminating the miraculous element from this book. The cure of a lame man is the starting-point of the whole story. Without it the rest is motiveless and inexplicable. There can be no explosion without a train and a fuse. The miracle, and the miracle only, supplies these. We may choose between believing and disbelieving it, but the rejection of the supernatural does not... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Acts 14:14-28

Establishing the New Believers Acts 14:14-28 In Paul’s address we have distinct anticipations of the early chapters of the Epistle to the Romans. How fickle a mob is! Now, enthusiastic loyalty; again, disappointment and rejection. Today, “Hosanna;” tomorrow, “Crucify.” “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.” It has been supposed by some that the trance of 2 Corinthians 12:1-21 took place at the time of Paul’s stoning in Lystra. It must have been sorrow indeed to awaken from... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Acts 14:1-28

In Iconium there was largely a repetition of the experiences at Antioch. Becoming aware of the growing hostility, Paul and Barnabas passed on, and came to Lystra. There is a marked difference between Paul's address here and messages which he delivered to the Jews. In this he recognized and dealt only with Gentile position and thought. He described himself as a bearer of good tidings from the eternal God. Designating their gods, "vain things," he announced the living God. With relentless... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Acts 14:1-20

Preaching by the Way Acts 14:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we open the 14th chapter of Acts, we find Paul and Barnabas still traveling together and entering into Iconium. It is our purpose today to cover both the happenings in Iconium, and then to pass on with these two stalwart sons of God into Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia. There are so many things before us that we begin at once to tabulate them. I. PAUL AND BARNABAS IN ICONIUM (Acts 14:1-5 ) 1. They went both together. Let me quote... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:17

GOD’S GIFTS TO MEN‘[God] left not Himself without witness, in that He did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.’ Acts 14:17 These words come from one of St. Paul’s sermons. He was preaching to heathens, who, until then, had never heard of the true God. He was telling them that though they had never heard of God, yet they might have known what God was like because of the good things which were sent to them from God.What good... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:1-28

The Expansion Of The Word In Cyprus and Asia Minor, With Satan’s Counterattack Being Defeated at an Assembly In Jerusalem, Which is Then Followed By Further Ministry (13:1-18:22). Jerusalem having forfeited its Messiah and its right to evangelise the world, the torch now passes to Antioch. For in his presentation of the forward flow of ‘the word’ Luke now had to find the next great forwards movement and he found it at Syrian Antioch. From there at the instigation of the Holy Spirit (the Holy... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:8-20

The Ministry at Lystra (14:8-20a). A description is now given of the rather colourful events that occurred during their ministry in Lystra. These are on top of the fact that they proclaimed the Good News there (Acts 14:7). We do not know how long they had been there before the healing took place, and it may well be that they had been proclaiming the Good News in the synagogue there for some time (this would explain why the Jews had arrived from Pisidian Antioch and Iconium). The incidents... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:15-17

These were not Jews. Nor were they people with a background in Judaism or philosophy. As they were revealing they were out and out idolaters and simple men. But Paul does not turn away from them. Rather he speaks to them in a way that they will understand. Of no use here is it to mention the past history of the Jews or Greek philosophers. So he proclaims the past history of the world, although in Old Testament terms, so as to draw out that there is only one God, and that He is calling all men... read more

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Acts 14:14-18

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Acts 14:8-20

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Acts 14:12-22

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Acts 14:14-28

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Acts 14:1-28

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Acts 14:1-20

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:1-28

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:8-20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:15-17

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