Acts 13:50 - Exposition

Urged on for stirred up, A.V.; the devout women of honorable estate for the devout and honorable women, A.V. and T.R.; stirred up a for raised, A.V.; cast them out of their borders for expelled them out of their coasts, A.V. Urged on ( παρώτρυναν ) . The word only occurs here in the New Testament, and is not common elsewhere. The devout women of honorable estate : εὐσχήμων is, literally, well-formed; then decent, becoming; and then honorable, well-to-do (comb. Acts 17:4 , γυναικῶν τῶν πρώτων ) . See Mark 15:43 , where Joseph of Arimathaea is described as εὐσχήμων βουλευτής , "an honorable counselor." The devout women ( αἲ σεβόμεναι ) were the Gentile proselytes who worshipped God, as in Mark 15:43 . So of Lydia ( Acts 16:14 ), and of "the devout Greeks" ( Acts 17:4 , Acts 17:17 ; Acts 18:7 ). The chief men ( τοὺς πρώτους ) , as in Acts 17:4