Acts 17:16 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 17:16

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols.

KJV

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

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Commentary

4 voices

Oecumenius

Commentary on Acts (550)

"was stirred within him." Here he does not say anger, nor indignation; for anger and indignation are far from grace. What then is this, "was stirred within him"? Instead of "he was aroused," he does not bear it, but is softened, as elsewhere he says, …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

While Paul was waiting for the - Having no design, as it seems, to preach at Athens, but his zeal for God drew him into it unawares, without staying till his companions came.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And this city, after the empire became Christian, continued incurably addicted to idolatry, and all the pious edicts of the Christian emperors could not root it out, till, by the irruption of the Goths, that city was in so particular a manner laid waste that there are now scarcely any remains of it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

He saw the city wholly given to idolatry - Κατειδωλον, Full of idols, as the margin has it, and very properly. Whoever examines the remains of this city, as represented by Mr. Stuart in his Antiquities, already referred to, will be satisfied of the truth of St. Luke’s remark: it was full of idols. Bishop Pearce produces a most apposite quotation from Pausanias, which confirms the observation: Ουκ ην αλλαχου τοσαυτα ιδειν ειδωλα. There was no place where so many idols were to be seen. Paus. in Attic. cap. xvii.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἐν	En	In	G1722 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
ταῖς	tais	<the>	G3588 →
Ἀθήναις	Athēnais	Athens	G116 →
ἐκδεχομένου	ekdechomenou	is waiting for	G1551 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	them	G846 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
Παύλου	Paulou	Paul	G3972 →
παρωξύνετο	parōxuneto	was provoked	G3947 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πνεῦμα	pneuma	spirit	G4151 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
αὐτῷ	autō	him	G846 →
θεωροῦντος	theōrountos	seeing	G2334 →
κατείδωλον	kateidōlon	utterly idolatrous	G2712 →
οὖσαν	ousan	to be	G1510 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
πόλιν.	polin	city.	G4172 →

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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
Psalms 119:136
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
leads to
- Ezekiel 9:4
  “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 9:1
  Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
- 1 Samuel 15:11
  “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all…
Through
Micah 3:8
As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
leads to
- Isaiah 58:1
  “Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- 1 Corinthians 2:12–13
  We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
- 1 Corinthians 2:4
  My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
Through
2 Peter 2:7
and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
leads to
- Genesis 19:16
  But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for…
- Genesis 19:29
  So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.