Acts 14:21 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 14:21

Had taught many - Or, rather, had made many disciples (margin).To Lystra - Acts 14:6.And to Iconium - Acts 14:1. We have here a remarkable instance of the courage of the apostles. In these very places they had been persecuted and stoned, and yet in the face of danger they ventured to return. The welfare of the infant churches they deemed of more consequence than their own safety; and they threw themselves again into the midst of danger, to comfort and strengthen those just converted to God.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 14:21-22

Acts 14:21-22. And when they had preached, and taught many Namely, at Derbe; and, it seems also, in Galatia and Phrygia: see Colossians 4:13. Greek, μαθητευσαντες ικανους , having made many disciples; they returned again to Lystra, &c. Being doubtless directed so to do by the Spirit; confirming the souls of the disciples Whom they had converted in their former journey; exhorting them to continue in the faith With a steadfastness becoming the evidence and importance of it; and ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 14:1-28

Other churches in Galatia (14:1-28)Paul and Barnabas moved on to the town of Iconium, where events followed the same pattern as in Antioch. They preached in the synagogue and both Jews and Gentiles believed. But as the number of converts increased, the people of the city became clearly divided between supporters of the apostles and supporters of the Jewish leaders. Because of the threat of murder, the apostles fled the city and went to Lystra (14:1-7).When the apostles healed a crippled man in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 14:21

when they had = having. had taught = having made disciples of. Greek. matheteuo. Only here, Matthew 13:52 ; Matthew 27:57 ; Matthew 28:19 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 14:21

And when they preached the gospel to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch.When Paul and company were at Derbe, only the Taurus Mountains separated them from Paul's native province and the city of Tarsus; and one wonders if there were any emotions tugging at his heart for a visit there. However that was, the verse before us summarizes an extensive and successful preaching experience in Derbe, after which the missionary party backtracked,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 14:21

21, 22. they returned . . . to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, confirming the souls, &c.—At Derbe, Paul was not far from the well-known pass which leads down from the central tableland to Cilicia and Tarsus. But his thoughts did not center in an earthly home. He revisited the places where he had been reviled and persecuted, but where he had left as sheep in the desert the disciples whom his Master had enabled him to gather. They needed building up and strengthening in the faith, comforting in... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 14:13-21

3. The mission to Asia Minor 13:13-14:21aHaving evangelized Barnabas’ homeland the missionaries next moved into southern Asia Minor (modern western Turkey)."The contact with Sergius Paulus is the key to the subsequent ininerary of the first missionary journey. From Cyprus Paul and Barnabas struck east to the newly founded colony of Pisiddian Antioch, miles away from any Cypriot’s normal route. Modern scholars have invoked Paul’s wish to reach the uplands of Asia and recover from a passing... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 14:20-21

Ministry at Derbe 14:20-21aPaul and Barnabas next moved about 60 miles farther to the southeast to Derbe (meaning juniper, modern Kerti Hüyük) on the eastern border of the Galatian province. [Note: See M. Ballance, The Site of Derbe: A New Inscription.] Many more people became believers and disciples there (cf. Acts 20:4). Luke did not record what the apostles experienced there, but this was the home of Gaius, one of Paul’s later companions (Acts 20:4). Perhaps Gaius became a convert at this... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 14:21

4. Paul and Barnabas’ return to Antioch of Syria 14:21-28 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 14:21-22

The missionaries confined their labors to the Galatian province on this trip. They did not move farther east into the kingdom of Antiochus or the province of Cilicia that Paul may have evangelized previously during his time in Tarsus. Tarsus stood some 160 miles east of Derbe. Instead they retraced their steps to encourage, instruct, and organize the new converts (cf. Acts 18:23). [Note: See David F. Detwiler, "Paul’s Approach to the Great Commission in Acts 14:21-23," Bibliotheca Sacra 152:605... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 14:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 14:21-22

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 14:1-28

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 14:21

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 14:21

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 14:21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 14:13-21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 14:20-21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 14:21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 14:21-22

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