Postulasagan 14:21

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21 Þegar þeir höfðu boðað fagnaðarerindið í þeirri borg og gjört marga að lærisveinum, sneru þeir aftur til Lýstru, Íkóníum og Antíokkíu,

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taught many: Gr. made many disciples, Matthew 28:19,*Gr.

Lystra: Acts 14:1, Acts 14:6, Acts 14:8, Acts 14:19, Acts 13:14, Acts 13:51, Acts 15:36, Acts 16:2, 2 Timothy 3:11

Reciprocal: Daniel 11:33 - understand Acts 14:7 - General Acts 16:1 - to Derbe

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when they had preached the Gospel to that city,.... To the inhabitants of it, as they did in every place where they came, even the pure Gospel of Christ, the good news, and glad tidings of life and salvation by him:

and had taught many; or made them disciples, their ministry being blessed to bring many to the faith of Christ:

they returned again to Lystra; where Paul had been stoned:

and to Iconium; where both Jews and Gentiles, and the magistrates of the city, had attempted to use them ill, and to stone them:

and Antioch; that is, in Pisidia, as before; where a persecution was raised against them, and from the coasts of which place they were expelled; so fearless were they of danger, and so zealous to promote the interest of Christ, and the good of souls.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Had taught many - Or, rather, had made many disciples (margin).

To Lystra - Acts 14:6.

And to Iconium - Acts 14:1. We have here a remarkable instance of the courage of the apostles. In these very places they had been persecuted and stoned, and yet in the face of danger they ventured to return. The welfare of the infant churches they deemed of more consequence than their own safety; and they threw themselves again into the midst of danger, to comfort and strengthen those just converted to God. There are times when ministers should not count their own lives. dear to them Acts 20:24, but when they should fearlessly throw themselves into the midst of danger, confiding only in the protecting care of their God and Saviour.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 14:21. Preached the Gospel to that city — Derbe, a city in the same province. Acts 14:6.

They returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium — Behold the courage of these Christian men! They counted not their lives dear to them, and returned to do their Masters work in the very places in which they had been so grievously persecuted, and where one of them had been apparently stoned to death! The man who knows he is God's ambassador, and that his life depends on his fidelity to his Master, knows he has nothing but his God to fear.