Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 13:46
Waxed bold; being nothing aftrighted with the reproaches and blasphemies they met with, which but increased their zeal, as a little water does the fire in the smith’s forge. It was necessary; there was a necessity that the Word of God should be first preached to the Jews: 1. Because Christ was promised to the children and heirs of their ancestors. 2. Because Christ did command it to be thus preached, Matthew 10:5,Matthew 10:6; Luke 24:47; Acts 1:8. 3. Christ himself thus preached it, declaring... read more
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 13:42-52
Acts 13:42-1 Thessalonians : . The Result: the Missionaries leave Antioch. Acts 13:42 reads as if the congregation as a whole invited the preachers to speak to them again on the following Sabbath, but a meeting or meetings at once took place at the instance of many Jews and proselytes in some place not mentioned. The first statement is followed up in Acts 13:44; to account for the crowded synagogue, D and a few other authorities add to Acts 13:43, “ and it came to pass that the word of God... read more