Acts 13:12 - Exposition

The proconsul for the deputy, A.V.; teaching for doctrine, A.V. Believed . We cannot, perhaps, conclude positively from this that Sergius was baptized and became an avowed Christian, though the usual language of the Acts rather leads us to infer it (see verse 48; Acts 2:44 ; Acts 4:4 ; Acts 8:12 , Acts 8:13 ; Acts 11:21 ; Acts 19:18 ). Farrar thinks that if so marked a person had become a lifelong convert, we should have heard of him as such in other writings, Renan says, "La conversion d'un Romain de cet ordre, a cette epoque est chose absolument inadmissible." Alford and Olshausen speak doubtfully. Lange and Howson and Meyer look upon him as a genuine convert. The 'Speaker's Commentary' speaks of him as "the first fruits of heathenism." Being astonished at the teaching . "For the connection of the judgment concerning the doctrine with the miracle seen, comp. Mark 1:27 " (Meyer).