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Acts 14:14

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Acts 14:14

Verse 14 of 28

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[Which] when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard [of], they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,

Acts 14:14 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Acts 14:14

Theological / Devotional

The apostles. The elaborate preparations for the sacrifice naturally aroused the apostles’ suspicions.

Rent their clothes. With the Jews this was an expression of extreme horror, used particularly as a protest against blasphemy (see on Matt. 26:65), which Paul and Barnabas now realized the heathen people of Lystra were about to commit in ignorance. How far the population of Lystra may have understood this act is not known, but its very violence must have startled and arrested them.

Ran. Gr. ekpedaomai, “to leap forth,” “to rush out.” Probably the disciples rushed out of the city gate to where the people were gathered for sacrifice, perhaps at the temple dedicated to Zeus, which was “before their city” (see on v. 13).

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