Acts 13:14 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 13:14

And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch, where they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

KJV

But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

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Commentary

4 voices

Bede

Commentary on Acts (735)

They came to Antioch in Pisidia. There are two cities named Antioch: one in Coele-Syria, founded by King Seleucus, which was formerly called Reblata, which they say has the nearby spring of Daphne, and enjoys its abundant waters, in which the disciples were first named …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

But when they departed from Perga,.... Where they seemed not to make any long stay; nor is there any account of what they did there; though it is certain here was a church of Christ in after times, and very likely planted by the apostles; for after this Paul and Barnabas preached the word in this place, Act 14:25 and no doubt with success.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

For, though it was by the death of Christ that the ceremonial law died, yet it was in the ruins of Jerusalem that it was to be buried; and therefore, though the morality of the fourth commandment was entirely transferred to the Christian sabbath, yet it was not incongruous to join with the Jews in their sabbath sanctification.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The whole region was, and to this day is, infested by robbers, as ancient history and modern travels abundantly attest; and there can be but little doubt that to this very journey Paul many years after alludes, when he speaks amidst his "journeyings often," of his "perils of rivers" (as the word is), and his "perils of robbers" (2Co 11:26).

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
αὐτοὶ	autoi	They themselves	G846 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
διελθόντες	dielthontes	having passed through	G1330 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
Πέργης	Pergēs	Perga	G4011 →
παρεγένοντο	paregenonto	came	G3854 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
Ἀντιόχειαν	Antiocheian	Antioch	G490 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
Πισιδίαν,	Pisidian	Pisidia,	G4099 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
εἰσελθόντες	eiselthontes	having gone	G1525 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
συναγωγὴν	sunagōgēn	synagogue	G4864 →
τῇ	tēa	on the	G3588 →
ἡμέρᾳ	hēmera	day	G2250 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
σαββάτων	sabbatōn	Sabbaths	G4521 →
ἐκάθισαν.¶	ekathisan	they sat down.	G2523 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 17:2
As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
leads to
- Acts 18:4
  Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 14:1
  At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Acts 14:19
Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
leads to
- 2 Timothy 3:11
  my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
- 2 Corinthians 11:25
  Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
- Acts 13:50–51
  The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
- Acts 14:5
  But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
- Acts 13:45
  But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
Through
Acts 18:4
Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.
leads to
- Acts 17:17
  So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace with those he met each day.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Acts

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Acts