You can skip to local navigation, content or closing (global) navigation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Acts 13

Chapter 13

Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Cir

A.M. 4049. A.D. 45.

in the

11:22-24 14:26,27

prophets

11:25-27 15:35 Romans 12:6,7 1 Corinthians 12:28,29 14:24,25 Ephesians 4:11 1 Thessalonians 5:20

Barnabas

4:36 11:22-26,30 12:25 1 Corinthians 9:6 Galatians 2:9,13

Lucius

11:20 Romans 16:21

which, etc

or, Herod's foster brother. Herod.

Matthew 14:1-10 Luke 3:1,19,20 13:31,32 23:7-11 Philippians 4:22

and Saul

9 8:1-3 9:1

As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

they

6:4 Deuteronomy 10:8 1 Samuel 2:11 1 Chronicles 16:4,37-43 Romans 15:16 Colossians 4:17 2 Timothy 1:11 2 Timothy 4:5,11

fasted

3 10:30 Daniel 9:3 Matthew 6:16 9:14,15 Luke 2:37 1 Corinthians 7:5 2 Corinthians 6:5 11:27

the Holy

10:19 16:6,7 1 Corinthians 12:11

Separate

22:21 Numbers 8:11-14 Romans 1:1 10:15 Galatians 1:15 2:8,9 2 Timothy 2:2

the work

9:15 14:26 Matthew 9:38 Luke 10:1 Ephesians 3:7 1 Timothy 2:7 2 Timothy 1:11 Hebrews 5:4

And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

the had

2 6:6 8:15-17 9:17 14:23 Numbers 27:23 1 Timothy 4:14 5:22 2 Timothy 1:6 2:2

they sent

14:26 15:40 Romans 10:15 3 John 1:6,8

So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

being

20:23

Cyprus

4:36 11:19 27:4

And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.

in the

14,46 14:1 17:1-3,17 18:4 19:8

John

12:25 15:37 Colossians 4:10

their

Exodus 24:13 1 Kings 19:3,21 2 Kings 3:11 Matthew 20:26 2 Timothy 4:11

And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:

certain

8:9-11 19:18,19 Exodus 22:18 Leviticus 20:6 Deuteronomy 18:10-12 1 Chronicles 10:13 Isaiah 8:19,20

a false

Deuteronomy 13:1-3 1 Kings 22:22 Jeremiah 23:14,15 Ezekiel 13:10-16 Zechariah 13:3 Matthew 24:24 2 Corinthians 11:13 2 Timothy 3:8 2 Peter 2:1-3 1 John 4:1 Revelation 19:20

whose

Matthew 16:17 Mark 10:46 John 21:15-17

Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

the deputy

12 18:12 19:38

a prudent

17:11,12 Proverbs 14:8,15,18 18:15 Hosea 14:9 1 Thessalonians 5:21

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

for

6 9:36 John 1:41

withstood

Exodus 7:11-13 1 Kings 22:24 Jeremiah 28:1,10,11 29:24-32 2 Timothy 3:8 4:14,15

Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,

who

filled

2:4 4:8,31 7:55 Micah 3:8

set

Mark 3:5 Luke 20:17

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

O full

8:20-23 Ecclesiastes 9:3 Matthew 3:7 15:19 23:25-33 Luke 11:39 2 Corinthians 11:3

thou child

Genesis 3:15 Matthew 13:38 John 8:44 1 John 3:8

will

20:30 Jeremiah 23:36 Matthew 23:13 Luke 11:52 Galatians 1:7

the right

18:25,26 Genesis 18:19 2 Chronicles 17:6 Hosea 14:9 John 1:23

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

hand

Exodus 9:3 1 Samuel 5:6,9,11 Job 19:21 Psalms 32:4 38:2 39:10,11

thou

9:8,9,17 Genesis 19:11 2 Kings 6:8 Isaiah 29:10 John 9:39 Romans 11:7-10,25

a mist

2 Peter 2:17

Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

the deputy

7 28:7

when

19:7 Matthew 27:54 Luke 7:16

being

6:10 Matthew 7:28,29 Luke 4:22 John 7:46 2 Corinthians 10:4,5

Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

loosed

6 27:13

Perga

2:10 14:24,25 27:5

John

5 15:38 Colossians 4:10 2 Timothy 4:11

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

A. M. 4050. A.D. 46. Antioch

14:19,21-24

went

5 16:13 17:2 18:4 19:8

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

the reading

27 15:21 Luke 4:16-18

the rulers

18:8,17 Mark 5:22

Ye men

1:16 2:29,37 7:2 15:7 22:1

if

2:4 20:2 Romans 12:8 1 Corinthians 14:3 Hebrews 13:22

Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

beckoning

12:17 19:33 21:40

Men

26 2:22 3:12

and ye

42,43,46 10:2,35 1 Kings 8:40 Psalms 67:7 85:9 135:20 Luke 1:50 23:40

give

2:14 22:1,22 Deuteronomy 32:46,47 Psalms 49:1-3 78:1,2 Micah 3:8,9 Matthew 11:15 Revelation 2:7,11,17,29

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

God

7:2-53 Genesis 12:1-3 17:7,8 Deuteronomy 4:37 7:6-8 9:5 14:2 Nehemiah 9:7,8 Psalms 105:6-12,42,43 135:4 Isaiah 41:8,9 44:1 Jeremiah 33:24-26 1 Peter 2:9

and exalted

7:17 Exodus 1:7-9 Deuteronomy 10:22 Psalms 105:23,24

and with

7:36 Exodus 6:1-14 15:1-21 18:11 Deuteronomy 4:20,34 7:19 1 Samuel 4:8 Nehemiah 9:9-12 Psalms 77:13-20 78:12,13,42-53 105:26-39 106:7-11 Psalms 114:1-8 135:8-10 136:10-15 Isaiah 63:9-14 Jeremiah 32:20,21 Amos 2:10 Micah 6:4 7:15,16

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

about

7:36,39-43 Exodus 16:2,35 Numbers 14:22,33,34 Deuteronomy 9:7,21-24 Nehemiah 9:16-21 Psalms 78:17-42 95:8-11 106:13-29 Ezekiel 20:10-17 Amos 5:25,26 1 Corinthians 10:1-10 Hebrews 3:7-10,16-19

suffered

"Gr. [tropophoreo (tropofore—w)] perhaps for [trophophoreo] bore, or fed them as a nurse beareth or feedeth her child, De 1:31; according to the LXX., and so Chrysostom."

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

when

7:45 Deuteronomy 7:1 Joshua 24:11 Nehemiah 9:24 Psalms 78:55

Chanaan

Genesis 12:5 17:8 Psalms 135:11

Canaan

he divided.

Numbers 26:53-56 Joshua 14:1 18:10 23:4 Psalms 78:55

And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

he gave

Judges 2:16 3:10 Ruth 1:1 1 Samuel 12:11 2 Samuel 7:11 2 Kings 23:22 1 Chronicles 17:6

until

1 Samuel 3:20

And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

they

1 Samuel 8:5-22 12:12-19

Saul

1 Samuel 10:1,21-26 11:15 15:1

Cis

1 Samuel 9:1,2 10:21

Kish

Verse 22

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

when

1 Samuel 12:25 13:13 15:11,23,26,28 16:1 28:16 31:6 2 Samuel 7:15 1 Chronicles 10:13 Hosea 13:10,11

he raised

1 Samuel 16:1,13 2 Samuel 2:4 5:3-5 7:8 1 Chronicles 28:4,5 Psalms 2:6 78:70-72 Psalms 89:19,20-37 Jeremiah 33:21,26 Ezekiel 34:23 37:24,25 Hosea 3:5

to whom

15:8 Hebrews 11:4,5

I have

7:46 1 Samuel 13:14 1 Kings 15:3,5

Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

this

2:30 2 Samuel 7:12 Psalms 89:35-37 132:11 Isaiah 7:13 11:1,10 Jeremiah 23:5,6 Jeremiah 33:15-17 Amos 9:11 Matthew 1:1 21:9 22:42 Luke 1:31-33,69 John 7:42 Romans 1:3 Revelation 22:16

raised

2:32-36 3:26 4:12 5:30,31 Isaiah 43:11 45:21 Zechariah 9:9 Matthew 1:21 Luke 2:10,11 John 4:42 Romans 11:26 Titus 1:4 2:10-14 3:3-6 2 Peter 1:1,11 2 Peter 2:20 3:2,18 1 John 4:14 Jude 1:25

When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

1:22 10:37 19:3,4 Matthew 3:1-11 Mark 1:2-8 Luke 1:76 3:2,3-20 John 1:6-8,15-18 3:25-36 5:33-36

And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

fulfilled

36 20:24 Mark 6:16-28 John 4:34 19:28-30 2 Timothy 4:7 Revelation 11:7

whom

19:4 Matthew 3:11 Mark 1:7 Luke 3:15,16 John 1:20-23,26,27,29,34,36 John 3:27-29 7:18 2 Corinthians 4:5

Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

children

15,17,46 3:26 2 Chronicles 20:7 Psalms 105:6 147:19,20 Isaiah 41:8 48:1 51:1,2 Matthew 3:9 10:6 Luke 24:47

and whosoever

16,43 10:35

to you

16:17 28:28 Isaiah 46:13 Luke 1:69,77 Romans 1:16 2 Corinthians 5:19-21 Ephesians 1:13 Colossians 1:5

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

because

3:17 Luke 22:34 John 8:28 15:21 16:3 Romans 11:8-10,25 1 Corinthians 2:8 2 Corinthians 3:14 4:4 1 Timothy 1:13

nor

Matthew 22:29 Luke 24:25-27,44,45

which

14,15 15:21

they have

26:22,23 28:23 Genesis 50:20 Matthew 26:54-56 Luke 24:20,24 John 19:28-30 John 19:36,37

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

3:13,14 Matthew 27:19,22-25 Mark 15:13-15 Luke 23:4,5,14-16,21-25 John 18:38 19:4,12-16

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

when

27 2:23 4:28 Luke 18:31-33 24:44 John 19:28,30,36,37

they took

Matthew 27:57-60 Mark 15:45,46 Luke 23:53 John 19:38-42 1 Corinthians 15:4

But God raised him from the dead:

2:24,32 3:13,15,26 4:10 5:30,31 10:40 17:31 Matthew 28:6 John 2:19 John 10:17 Hebrews 13:20

And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

he was

1:3,11 10:41 Matthew 28:16 Mark 16:12-14 Luke 24:36-42 John 20:19-29 John 21:1-14 1 Corinthians 15:5-7

who

1:8,22 2:32 3:15 5:32 10:39 Luke 24:48 John 15:27 Hebrews 2:3,4

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

we

38 Isaiah 40:9 41:27 52:7 61:1 Luke 1:19 2:10 Romans 10:15

how

3:19 26:6 Genesis 3:15 12:3 22:18 26:4 49:10 Deuteronomy 18:15 Isaiah 7:14 Isaiah 9:6,7 11:1 Jeremiah 23:5 Ezekiel 34:23 Daniel 9:24-26 Micah 5:2 Haggai 2:7 Zechariah 6:12 9:9 13:1,7 Malachi 3:1 4:2 Luke 1:54,55,68-73 Romans 4:13 Galatians 3:16-18

God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

Thou art

Psalms 2:7 Hebrews 1:5,6 5:5

And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

now

Romans 6:9

I will

Isaiah 55:3

the sure

2 Samuel 7:14-16 23:5 Psalms 89:2-4,19-37 Jeremiah 33:15-17,26 Ezekiel 34:23,24 Ezekiel 37:24,25 Hosea 3:5 Amos 9:11 Zechariah 12:8

mercies

"Gr. [hosios (o(siðwv)] holy, or just, things; which word the LXX., both in the place of Isa 55:3, and in many others, use for that which is in the Heb. mercies."

Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

in

2:27-31 Psalms 16:10

to see

36,37 Psalms 49:9 89:48 Luke 2:26 John 3:36 8:51 Hebrews 11:5

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

served, etc

or, in his own age served the will of God.

22 1 Chronicles 11:2 13:2-4 15:12-16,25-29 18:14 22:1-29 Psalms 78:71,72

fell

7:60 2 Samuel 7:12 1 Kings 2:10 1 Corinthians 15:6,18 1 Thessalonians 4:13

and was

2:29 1 Chronicles 17:11 2 Chronicles 9:31 12:16 21:1 26:23

and saw

Genesis 3:19 Job 17:14 19:26,27 21:26 Psalms 49:9,14 John 11:39 1 Corinthians 15:42-44,53,54

But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

30 2:24

Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

it

2:14 4:10 28:28 Ezekiel 36:32 Daniel 3:18

that

2:38 5:31 10:43 Psalms 32:1 130:4,7 Jeremiah 31:34 Daniel 9:24 Micah 7:18-20 Zechariah 13:1 Luke 24:47 John 1:29 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 Ephesians 1:7 4:32 Colossians 1:14 Hebrews 8:6,12,13 9:9-14,22 10:4-18 1 John 2:1,2,12

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

by

Isaiah 53:11 Habakkuk 2:4 Luke 18:14 John 5:24 Romans 3:24-30 4:5-8,24 5:1,9 Romans 8:1,3,30-34 10:10 1 Corinthians 6:11 Galatians 2:16 3:8

from which

Job 9:20 25:4 Psalms 143:2 Jeremiah 31:32 Luke 10:25,28 John 1:17 Romans 3:19 Romans 4:15 5:20 7:9-11 8:3 9:31 10:4 Galatians 2:16,19 3:10-12,21-25 5:3 Philippians 3:6-9 Hebrews 7:19 9:9,10 10:4,11

Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

Beware

Malachi 3:2 4:1 Matthew 3:9-12 Hebrews 2:3 3:12 12:25

which

Isaiah 29:14 Habakkuk 1:5

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

ye despisers

Proverbs 1:24-32 5:12 Isaiah 5:24 28:14-22 Luke 16:14 23:35 Hebrews 10:28-30

for

47 3:23 6:14 22:21 Isaiah 65:15 Daniel 9:26,27 Matthew 8:10,11 21:41-44 Matthew 22:7-10 23:34-38 Luke 19:42-44 21:20-26 Romans 11:7-14 Ephesians 3:3-8 Colossians 1:26,27 1 Thessalonians 2:16 1 Peter 4:17

And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

the Gentiles

10:33 28:28 Ezekiel 3:6 Matthew 11:21 19:30

the next sabbath

Gr. in the week between, or, in the sabbath between.

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

and religious

2:10 6:5

followed

17:34 19:9

persuaded

11:23 14:22 19:8 28:23 John 8:31,32 15:5-10 2 Corinthians 5:11 6:1 Galatians 5:1 Philippians 3:16 4:1 Colossians 1:23,28 1 Thessalonians 3:3-5 Hebrews 6:11,12 12:15 2 Peter 3:14,17,18 1 John 2:28 2 John 1:9

the grace

14:3 Romans 3:24 5:2,21 11:6 Galatians 5:4 Ephesians 2:8 Titus 2:11 Hebrews 13:9 1 Peter 5:12

And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

came

Genesis 49:10 Psalms 110:3 Isaiah 11:10 60:8

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

they

5:17 *marg:; 17:5 Genesis 37:11 Numbers 11:29 Ecclesiastes 4:4 Isaiah 26:11 Matthew 27:18 Luke 15:25-30 Romans 1:29 1 Corinthians 3:3 Galatians 5:21 James 3:14-16 4:5

spake

6:9,10 18:6 19:9 Matthew 23:13 1 Peter 4:4 Jude 1:10

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

waxed

4:13,29-31 Proverbs 28:1 Romans 10:20 Ephesians 6:19,20 Philippians 1:14 Hebrews 11:34

It was

26 3:26 18:5 26:20 Matthew 10:6 Luke 24:47 John 4:22 Romans 1:16 2:10 Romans 9:4,5

seeing

7:51 Exodus 32:9,10 Deuteronomy 32:21 Isaiah 49:5-8 Matthew 10:13-15 21:43 22:6-10 Luke 14:16-24 John 1:11 Romans 10:19-21 11:11-13

turn

18:6 28:28 Isaiah 55:5

For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

so

1:8 9:15 22:21 26:17,18 Matthew 28:19 Mark 16:15 Luke 24:47

I have

26:23 Isaiah 42:1,6 49:6 60:3 Luke 2:32

that thou

15:14-16 Psalms 22:27-29 67:2-7 72:7,8 96:1,2 98:2,3 117:1,2 Isaiah 2:1-3 24:13-16 42:9-12 45:22 52:10 59:19,20 Jeremiah 16:19 Hosea 1:10 Amos 9:12 Micah 4:2,3 5:7 Zephaniah 3:9,10 Zechariah 2:11 8:20-23 Malachi 1:11

And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

they

42 2:41 8:8 15:31 Luke 2:10-11 Romans 15:9-12

glorified

Psalms 138:2 2 Thessalonians 3:1

and as

2:47 John 10:16,26,27 11:52 Romans 8:30 11:7 Ephesians 1:19 2:5-10 2 Thessalonians 2:13,14

ordained

15:2 20:13 22:10 28:23 Matthew 28:16 Luke 7:8 Romans 13:1 1 Corinthians 16:15 *Gr:

And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.

was

6:7 9:42 12:24 19:10,26 Philippians 1:13,14

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.

the Jews

45 6:12 14:2,19 17:13 21:27 1 Kings 21:25

devout

43 2:5 Romans 10:2

honourable

1 Corinthians 1:26-29 James 2:5,6

and raised

8:1 Matthew 10:23 2 Timothy 3:11

and expelled

16:37-39 Isaiah 66:5 Amos 7:12 Mark 5:17

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

they

18:6 Matthew 10:14 Mark 6:11 Luke 9:5

Iconium

14:1,19,21 16:2

And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.

were

2:46 5:41 Matthew 5:12 Luke 6:22,23 John 16:22,23 Romans 5:3 14:17 15:13 2 Corinthians 8:2 1 Thessalonians 1:6 James 1:2 1 Peter 1:6-8 4:13

with the

2:4 4:31 Galatians 5:22 Ephesians 5:18-20