Acts 14:12 KJV — MannaFest

Acts 14:12

And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

KJV

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ASV

And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker.

WEB

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

YLT

they were calling also Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the leader in speaking.

DBT

And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercury, because he took the lead in speaking.

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Acts — The Gospel's sequel. Jerusalem → Judea and Samaria → the ends of the earth. Three missionary journeys and the voyage to Rome.

Author: Luke, companion of Paul — the 'we' passages begin in 16:10
Date: c. AD 62

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Acts 19:35
And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
1 Corinthians 9:6
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Galatians 4:8
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Galatians 2:1
Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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): They called Barnabas Jupiter; for, if they will have him to be a god, it is as easy to make him the prince of their gods as not. It is probable that he was the senior, and the more portly comely man, that had something of majesty in his countenance.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The outrage of the people against Paul, at the instigation of the Jews, the effect of which was that they stoned him, as they thought, to death; but he was wonderfully restored to life,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

in the speech of Lycaonia--whether a corruption of the Greek tongue, which was well enough understood in this region, or the remains of some older tongue, is not known. The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men--the language of an unsophisticated people.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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