Acts 11:21

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord’s hand was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

King James Version (1611)
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number beleeued, and turned vnto the Lord.

King James Version
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

English Standard Version
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

New American Standard Bible
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

New Century Version
The Lord was helping the believers, and a large group of people believed and turned to the Lord.

Amplified Bible
And the hand (the power and presence) of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord [for salvation, accepting and drawing near to Jesus as Messiah and Savior].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord's power was with them, and many people turned to the Lord and put their faith in him.

Complete Jewish Bible
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people trusted and turned to the Lord.

Darby Translation
And [the] Lord's hand was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord was helping these men, and a large number of people believed and decided to follow the Lord.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the hand of the Lord was with them, so that a great number beleeued and turned vnto the Lord.

George Lamsa Translation
And the hand of the LORD was with them: and a great number believed, and turned to the LORD.

Good News Translation
The Lord's power was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

Lexham English Bible
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

Literal Translation
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believing, they turned to the Lord.

American Standard Version
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number that believed turned unto the Lord.

Bible in Basic English
And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

International Standard Version
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number of people believed and turned to the Lord.Luke 1:66; Acts 2:47; 9:35;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and many believed, and were converted unto the Lord.

Murdock Translation
And the hand of the Lord was with them; and many believed, and turned to the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the hande of the Lorde was with them, and a great number beleued and turned vnto the Lorde.

English Revised Version
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number that believed turned unto the Lord.

World English Bible
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

Weymouth's New Testament
The power of the Lord was with them, and there were a vast number who believed and turned to the Lord.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the hond of the Lord was with hem, and myche noumbre of men bileuynge was conuertid to the Lord.

Update Bible Version
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number that believed turned to the Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned to the Lord.

New English Translation
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

New King James Version
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

New Living Translation
The power of the Lord was with them, and a large number of these Gentiles believed and turned to the Lord.

New Life Bible
The Lord gave them power. Many people put their trust in the Lord and turned to Him.

New Revised Standard
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number - they who believed - turned unto the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the hand of he Lord was with them: and a great number believing, were converted to the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the honde of the Lorde was with them and a greate nombre beleved and turned vnto the Lorde.

Young's Literal Translation
and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye hande of the LORDE was with the. And a greate nombre beleued, and turned vnto the LORDE.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and as the divine assistance accompany'd them, a great number of persons believed and became converts.

Simplified Cowboy Version
God was with them, and many folks started riding for the Lord.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹Those who had been scattered by the persecution triggered by Stephen's death traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they were still only speaking and dealing with their fellow Jews. Then some of the men from Cyprus and Cyrene who had come to Antioch started talking to Greeks, giving them the Message of the Master Jesus. God was pleased with what they were doing and put his stamp of approval on it—quite a number of the Greeks believed and turned to the Master. ²²When the church in Jerusalem got wind of this, they sent Barnabas to Antioch to check on things. As soon as he arrived, he saw that God was behind and in it all. He threw himself in with them, got behind them, urging them to stay with it the rest of their lives. He was a good man that way, enthusiastic and confident in the Holy Spirit's ways. The community grew large and strong in the Master. ²⁵Then Barnabas went on to Tarsus to look for Saul. He found him and brought him back to Antioch. They were there a whole year, meeting with the church and teaching a lot of people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were for the first time called Christians.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the hand: 2 Chronicles 30:12, Ezra 7:9, Ezra 8:18, Nehemiah 2:8, Nehemiah 2:18, Isaiah 53:1, Isaiah 59:1, Luke 1:66

and a: Acts 11:24, Acts 2:47, Acts 4:4, Acts 5:14, Acts 6:7, 1 Corinthians 3:6, 1 Corinthians 3:7, 1 Thessalonians 1:5

turned: Acts 9:35, Acts 15:19, Acts 26:18-20, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:12 - Certainly Judges 6:16 - General 2 Kings 3:15 - the hand Ecclesiastes 11:6 - thou knowest Acts 3:19 - be Acts 9:42 - and many Acts 12:24 - General Acts 14:1 - that a Acts 16:5 - increased Acts 16:14 - whose 1 Corinthians 1:6 - was 2 Corinthians 6:7 - the power Philippians 2:13 - God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the hand of the Lord was with them,.... Not only his hand of providence, which brought them thither, and protected them; and his hand of love, grace and mercy, which was upon them, and supplied them with gifts and grace, and everything necessary for them; and his hand of wisdom, which guided and directed them; but his hand of power, the same with the arm of the Lord, which when revealed, and made bare, the report of the Gospel is believed: but if that is not put forth, or efficacious grace is not exerted, no work is done, none are brought to believe, or are converted; ministers labour in vain, and spend their strength for nought: but this was not the case here, it was otherwise with these preachers; though they had travelled many miles, and were come into strange places, they were not left of God, nor without success, the power of God attended their ministry; so that the Gospel preached by them came not in word only, but in power, and it was the power of God unto salvation: hence it follows,

and a great number believed; not the Gospel only, but in Christ preached in it, Acts 11:20 which was not owing to the force of moral persuasion in the ministers, nor to the power of free will in the people, but to the hand or power of the Lord; for the work of faith is not a work of man's will, but of God's almighty power and grace; and when that is displayed, multitudes believe in Christ for righteousness and life: and turned to the Lord; and obeyed his commands; see Psalms 119:59 as a fruit, effect, and consequence of believing in Christ; for not first conversion is here intended, which is not man's work, but God's, and in which God is the agent, and man is passive; but obedience to the ordinances of Christ, as the fruit of faith, is meant.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the hand of the Lord - See the notes on Luke 1:66. Compare Psalms 80:17. The meaning is, that God showed them favor, and evinced his power in the conversion of their hearers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 11:21. The hand of the Lord was with them — By the hand, arm, and, finger of God, in the Scripture, different displays or exertions of his power are intended. Here it means that the energy of God accompanied them, and applied their preaching to the souls of all attentive hearers. Without this accompanying influence, even an apostle could do no good; and can inferior men hope to be able to convince and convert sinners without this? Ministers of the word of God, so called, who dispute the necessity and deny the being of this influence, show thereby that they are intruders into God's heritage; that they are not sent by him, and shall not profit the people at all.

A great number believed — That Jesus was the Christ; and that he had died for their offenses, and risen again for their justification. Because the apostles preached the truth, and the hand of God was with them, therefore, a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord, becoming his disciples, and taking him for their portion.