Postulasagan 13:50

Heilögum Biblíunni

50 En Gyðingar æstu upp guðræknar hefðarkonur og fyrirmenn borgarinnar og vöktu ofsókn gegn Páli og Barnabasi og ráku þá burt úr byggðum sínum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

devout: Acts 13:43, Acts 2:5, Romans 10:2

honourable: 1 Corinthians 1:26-29, James 2:5, James 2:6

and raised: Acts 8:1, Matthew 10:23, 2 Timothy 3:11

and expelled: Acts 16:37-39, Isaiah 66:5, Amos 7:12, Mark 5:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:19 - honourable Jeremiah 26:9 - And all Mark 6:11 - whosoever Luke 4:31 - taught Luke 15:28 - he Acts 9:23 - the Jews Acts 10:2 - devout Acts 15:26 - hazarded Acts 17:4 - and of the chief Acts 17:12 - honourable Acts 18:12 - the Jews Acts 20:19 - by the Acts 26:17 - Delivering 1 Corinthians 9:6 - Barnabas 2 Corinthians 11:26 - in perils by mine Galatians 2:1 - Barnabas 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - Forbidding 2 Thessalonians 3:2 - for 2 Timothy 1:12 - the which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women,.... These seem not to be Jewish women; could they be thought to be such, they might easily be concluded to be of the sect of the Pharisees, which was the strictest and most devout sect among the Jews; for there were women Pharisees, as well as men; so we read of

אשה פרושה, "a woman Pharisee" b; but these were Gentile women, proselyted to the Jewish religion, and were in their way very religious and devout, and were also "honourable": the word used signifies, not only that they were of a comely form, of a decent habit, and of good manners, as it is by some interpreted; but that they were persons of figure and distinction, of good families; the Syriac version renders it "rich", whose husbands were the principal men of the city; wherefore the Jews applied to these women, and stirred up them to work upon their husbands, who seem to be those next mentioned:

and the chief men of the city; the magistrates and officers in it:

and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas; raised the mob, and set them upon them:

and expelled them out of their coasts; drove them out of their city and suburbs.

b Misn. Sota, c. 3. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But the Jews stirred up - Excited opposition.

Honourable women - See the notes on Mark 15:43. Women of influence, and connected with families of rank. Perhaps they were proselytes, and were connected with the magistrates of the city.

And raised persecution - Probably on the ground that they produced disorder. The aid of “chief men” has often been called into oppose revivals of religion, and to put a period, if possible, to the spread of the gospel.

Out of their coasts - Out of the regions of their country; out of their province.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 13:50. Devout and honourable women — It is likely that these were heathen matrons, who had become proselytes to the Jewish religion; and, as they were persons of affluence and respectability, they had considerable influence with the civil magistracy of the place, and probably their husbands were of this order; and it is likely that they used that influence, at the instigation of the Jews, to get the apostles expelled from the place.