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Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:19

6. Paul, Rescued from Death, Retraces his Route back to Antioch , Acts 14:19-28 . 19. Jews from Antioch Of course our country village is soon convinced by visitors from the capital. They now are told that these two men, instead of being gods, forsooth, are nothing but a couple of itinerant apostate Jews and jugglers. The Lystrans realize their mistake with a sense of ridicule, and a feeling of indignation against the innocent apostles, whom they hold responsible for their own stupidity.... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:20

20. Disciples stood round The murdered man is not deserted by his faithful converts; surrounding him, doubtless consulting with what obsequies to honour him. But before they had decided the murdered man rose up, relieving them from their tasks, and came into the city. We have called him the murdered man, assuming that the Lystrans, who dragged his body out of their town, had full opportunity for a correct judgment, and we have their authority for it that there was violence enough to... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:21

21. Taught many At Derbe, as at neither of the last three places, Paul seems to encounter no persecution, but to have won many converts. The simple omission of any mention of persecutions strikingly coincides with Paul’s own account in 2 Timothy 3:11, where Paul reminds Timothy of his persecutions at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, and there stops. Paley draws a striking argument from this plainly undesigned coincidence between the Acts and the Epistle to prove the authenticity and the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:22

22. And that The that depends upon exhorting; or we may supply saying, after and understood. Much tribulation This is true especially of ages of persecution; it is true, in a less degree, even in Christian lands, and in the ordinary state of a world unconverted. Nay, it is even true internally of every Christian, since the depravities of the heart itself are ever prone, unless kept in firm subjection, to rise up in insurrection against the grace of God. But this text cannot be so... read more

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