Acts 13:16-41 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:24

When John had first preached before his coming ,.... Or, "before the face of his entrance"; that is, on his public ministry; for John did not preach before the coming of Christ in the flesh, being born but half a year before him; but before he came forth and was manifest to Israel; before he entered upon his work and office, as a prophet and teacher of the people: and this points out the business of John the Baptist, who was the forerunner of Christ, and went before his face to prepare his... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:25

And as John fulfilled his course ,.... Or race, the work of the ministry he was called to; as he was preaching and baptizing, which were the race set before him to run, and in which he ran well; he made full proof of his ministry. The life of every Christian is a race, and especially of a minister of the Gospel, and which requires strength, courage, agility, patience, and perseverance; this world is the place in which they run; and this is only the running time; in heaven they will sit down... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:26

Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham ,.... This address is made to them in the synagogue, who were Jews by birth, and in a form very grateful and pleasing; he calls them "men", perhaps not only from the common nature of mankind in them, but because they took this name peculiarly to themselves, and denied it to the nations of the world; and which they gather from Ezekiel 34:31 and he styles them "brethren", because they were his countrymen; and "children of the stock of... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:27

For they that dwelt at Jerusalem, and their rulers ,.... The inhabitants of that city, and the great sanhedrim which sat there: because they knew him not; that is, either Jesus the Saviour, whom God had raised of the seed of David, and to whom John bore witness; and which must be understood, not of all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and members of the sanhedrim; for though some were ignorant, yet there were others that knew that Jesus was the Messiah, and notwithstanding rejected him; but the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:28

And though they found no cause of death in him ,.... That is, no crime that deserved death; they sought for such, but could find none; they suborned false witnesses, who brought charges against him, but could not support them; wherefore Pilate, his judge, several times declared his innocence, and would have discharged him: yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain ; they were urgent and importunate with him, that he would order him to be put to death; the power of life and death... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:29

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him ,.... When they had vilified and reproached him in the most opprobrious manner; buffeted and scourged him, and pierced his hands and his feet, by nailing him to the cross; when they had crucified him between two thieves, and parted his raiment and cast lots on his vesture; when they had pierced his side, and it was sufficiently evident that his life was taken from the earth; all which were written of him in the Psalms and Prophets: ... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:30

But God raised him from the dead. Though his life was taken away by man, and it was a clear case that he was certainly dead, and he was taken down from the cross as such, and buried; yet he could not be held with the cords of death, but God the Father raised him from the dead by his power. The Vulgate Latin version adds, "the third day". read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:31

And he was seen many days ,.... Forty days, at certain times, of them which came up with him from Galilee ; which though true of several women who followed him from Galilee, and to whom he appeared after his resurrection, as Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and Salome the mother of Zebedee's children, and others; yet is chiefly to be understood of the apostles of Christ, who were Galilaeans, and came with Christ from that country to Jerusalem, when he came thither to... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:32

And we declare unto you glad tidings ,.... The whole of the Gospel, concerning the incarnation, obedience, sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ, and the benefits arising from thence, as peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation; all which are good news and glad tidings to sensible sinners; and which are declared and published by the ministers of the Gospel, according to the commission given them, as here by Paul and Barnabas: how that the promise which was made unto the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:33

God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children ,.... The natural descendants of them, as Paul and Barnabas, and the Jews in the synagogue, were: in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; which may not be understood of his resurrection from the dead, since the promise made, and now fulfilled, has not a single respect to that; but of his being raised up, and sent forth into the world, to be a Saviour and Redeemer, and to sit upon the throne of David, as in Acts 2:30 of which raising of... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 13:33

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