3 And when they 3. And accordingly they observed a solemn day of had fasted and pray- fasting and prayer, and so by imposition of hands hands on them, they (see note [f] 1 Tim. v.) ordained them, and sent them away about the work designed them by God.

ed, and laid their

sent them away.

4 So they, being 4. And having thus received their commission from sent forth by the the Holy Ghost, or by the appointment of God himHoly Ghost, depart self, (see ver. 2,) they went immediately to Seleucia.

ed unto Seleucia;

and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

5 And when they

were

at Salamis,

d they preached the

they proclaimed the gospel in the synagogues of word of God in the the Jews, and they had with them John, surnamed synagogues of the Jews: and they had Mark, ch. xii. 25, who was with them as an attendant, also John to their to do any thing wherein they had use of him, and by them to be sent on any part of their charge (see note 6 And when they on John xx. 21.) whither they could not go. had gone through b

minister.

the isle unto b Pa- Paphos, where the temple of Venus was, they

phos, they found a found

certain sorcerer, a

false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:

3

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

8 But [b] Elymas

8. But Bar-jesus, that Elymas or magician, (as Ely

the sorcerer (for so mas signifies,) withstood them—

is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

9 Then Saul, (who

[c] also is called

C

с

Paul,) filled with e having a great incitation of the Spirit of God upon the Holy Ghost, set him, looked earnestly on him, and said

his eyes on him,

4

d

10 And said, "O O thou vile sorcerer, which, like the devil by full of all subtilty whom thou workest, art an enemy of all goodness, and all [d]mis- wilt thou persist in sorcery in defiance of the faith of the devil, thou ene- Christ, which comes armed so with much more power my of all righteous- of miracles than those to which thou falsely pretendest? ness, wilt thou not

chief, thou child of

cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

3 proconsul, ἀνθυπάτῳ.

4 falseness, forgery.

II And now, be

11. It is most just that thou, that holdest out perhold, the hand of the versely against the light of the gospel, shouldst lose thy Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be sight, which therefore, by the immediate power of God, blind, not seeing the shall be taken from thee for some time. And immesun for a season. diately he was struck blind, and was not able to go And immediately without leading.

there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

12 Then the de- 12. And this act of miraculous blindness upon the puty, when he saw sorcerer convinced the proconsul, and converted him to the faith.

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what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

13 Now when Paul

13. And Paul, and all that were in his company, and his company except John, who returned to Jerusalem, went by sea they came to Perga from Paphos to Perga, a place famous for the temple in Pamphylia: and of Diana.

loosed from Paphos,

John departing from

them returned to Jerusalem.

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

15 And after the 15. And after the reading of the lessons, one out reading of the law of the law, the other out of the prophets, it being the and the prophets the custom for the Jewish doctors to expound and apply [e] rulers of the synagogue sent unto some part of scripture to the instruction of the people, them, saying, Ye the chief persons of the assembly which were present men and brethren, sent to Paul and his associates, to know whether they if ye have any word were prepared to do so.

of exhortation for

the people, say on.

16 Then Paul stood 16. And Paul stood up, and having called for up, and beckoning silence, (see ch. xii. 17,) bespake all, both Jews and with his hand said, Men of Israel, and proselytes, to give audience.

ye that fear God, give

audience.

17 The God of this 17. The God of Israel chose Abraham &c. and propeople of Israel chose mised to bless and multiply his seed, and accordingly our fathers, and ex- performed it, increasing them to a very great number, alted the people when they dwelt as strang- even at the time when they were sojourners and slaves ers in the land of (and their children appointed to be killed as soon as

5 much stricken, ἐκπλησσόμενος.

Egypt, and with an they were born) in Egypt, and with many wonderful high arm brought miracles at last brought them out from thence.

he them out of it.

18 And about the 18. And for forty years, although they rebelled and time of forty years murmured against him, (and accordingly he sent many "[f]suffered he their manners in the wild punishments upon them, and permitted none of the murmurers to enter Canaan,) yet dealt he with them 19 And when he with much kindness and tenderness, carried them as had destroyed seven in his arms, provided for them, fed them miraculously nations in the land in the wilderness.

erness.

of Chanaan, he divided their land to

them by lot.

e

20 And after that

to fight

government

he gave unto them e he raised up some particular eminent men, judges about the their battles for them; and that way of space of four hun- lasted till the time of Samuel, who, being a prophet, dred and fifty years, until Samuel the proruled them in God's name and stead for a while. phet.

21 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.

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. 23 Of this man's seed hath God ac

f whom I will make use of to rule my people according to my will.

23.

And as he promised, so hath he performed; from cording to his pro- his posterity is Jesus come, appointed by God to be mise raised unto Is- the Lawgiver and Judge of the world, to rule and gorael a Saviour, Je- vern all, to fight their battles against sin and Satan.

sus:

24 When John had

first preached be- g before his beginning to preach, or entrance on his fore his coming the prophetic office, the baptism—

baptism of repent

ance to all the peo

ple of Israel.

25 And as John

25. And as John preached and baptized he refulfilled his course, nounced being the Messias, telling them that he was he said, Whom think but his forerunner, and that he should shortly come

6 carried them as a nurse.

* the face of his entrance, προσώπου τῆς εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ.

ye that I am? I am and preach among them, whose disciple, saith he, I not he. But, behold, am not worthy to be.

there cometh one af

ter me, whose shoes 26. And now, brethren, both Jews and proselytes, of his feet I am not this gospel, which Christ thus brought into the world, worthy to loose. is sent to be proclaimed and made known to you. 26 Men and bre- 27. For the sanhedrim and people of Jerusalem, thren, children of the stock of Abraham, that then was, did not understand him to be the Mesand whosoever a- sias, which they might have done if they had conmong you feareth sidered the predictions of the prophets contained in God, to you is the those lessons and portions of scripture (especially word of this salva- prophetic) which every sabbath day are read in their 27 For they that synagogues, but adjudged him to death; and in so * dwell at Jerusalem, doing fulfilled those very prophecies which they unand their rulers, be- derstood not, yet pretended to understand and value cause they knew him so much; for they said it should be so. not, nor yet the voices of the pro- 28. And though he were perfectly innocent, no phets which are read capital accusation produced against him, yet by their every sabbath day, importunity they forced Pilate to condemn him to be they have [g] fulfil- crucified.

tion sent.

ing him.

led them in condemn- 29. And when by thus doing they had not more 28 And though they acted their own malice than fulfilled the prophecies found no cause of concerning the Messias, (according to what he himdeath in him, yet de- self said, It is finished, and then gave up the ghost,) sired they Pilate that then the officers took him down from the cross and 29 And when they put him into a tomb, sealed it up, and watched it, had fulfilled all that secured him by all ways imaginable.

he should be slain.

was written of him,

30. And yet, after all this, God raised him from the they took him down dead: from the tree, and

chre.

laid him in a sepul- 31. And for forty days he continued upon the earth, and was several times seen (and conversed with, 30 But God raised and did eat and drink, and shewed the print in his him from the dead: hands and side) in the presence of his disciples and 31 And he was divers others, who from the beginning had attended seen many days of them which came up on him as disciples, who now testify this truth unto

with him from Gali- all the Jews.

lee to Jerusalem, who 32, 33. And the subject of this gospel, which we are his witnesses un- thus proclaim unto you, is the promise made to Abrato the people. 32 And we 10 de- ham, (that in his seed &c.); to Moses, (that God clare unto you glad would raise up a prophet &c.) which promise God tidings, how that the hath now fulfilled in raising Jesus from the dead. Of promise which was which also that in the second Psalm was a prophecy, made unto the fa- when to David, after his great persecutions, it was 33 11 God hath ful- said, that God had now begotten him, thereupon callfilled the same unto ing him his son; that is, set him upon his throne, and 8 dwelt, kαTоIKOÛVTES. not knowing him condemned him, and fulfilled the sayings of the prophets, τοῦτον ἀγνοήσαντες, καὶ τὰς φωνὰς τῶν προφητῶν—κρίναντες, ἐπλήρωσαν. 10 preach unto you the promise, &c., evayyeλ¡Šóμela Tǹjv éπayy. 11 that God hath performed it, ὅτι ταύτην ὁ Θεὸς ἐκπεπλήρωκε.

thers,

9

again; as it is also

us their children, given him that title of greatest dignity, and which is in in that he hath scripture the title of kings, as on whom is instated [h] raised up Jesus that power over men which belongs originally to none written in the second but God, and derivatively to none but those on whom psalm, Thou art my God bestows it, who consequently are called both Son, this day have I children of the Most High and gods, Psalm lxxxii. begotten thee. 1. 6, (as those that are made like unto another, are, to express that similitude, called his sons, and sometimes have his name communicated to them.)

34 And as concern34. To the same purpose also, that God should not ing that he raised only raise him from the dead, but also secure him never him up from the to die any more, (for Lazarus, and others that were once dead, now no more raised, died again,) are those two other known protion, he said on this phecies; one, Isaiah lv. 3, I will give you the sure wise, I will give you mercies &c., the expression of an everlasting covenant the [i] sure mercies spoken literally to the people of Israel, that God would

to return to corrup

of David.

perpetuate to them the mercy promised to David, that of giving one of his seed to sit on his throne, (which had been for some time interrupted, but should now be perpetuated to them upon their obedience,) but here accommodated to Christ, that though he were crucified yet he should rise again, and after that never die any more; that is, that Christ, under the title of the Son of David, should be given to the Jews not only in a mortal condition, as David was, but in a firm immutable state which could not be true of him, if 35 Wherefore he he had not been raised from the dead and assumed to saith also in another heaven, never to die any more. psalm, Thou shalt

35. And to that most clearly belongs that other not suffer thine Holy place, Psalm xvi. 11.

One to see corrup- 36. For if those words should be applied to David

tion.

36 12 For David, personally, they could have no truth in them; for he after he had served having lived his term or space of natural life, and his own generation therein ruled the people over whom God was pleased by the will of God, to set him, died a natural death, and never rose again, laid unto his fathers, but his body was putrefied in the earth.

fell on sleep, and was

and saw corruption: 37. But he in whom that prophecy is completely 37 But he, whom fulfilled, that is, Christ, being sent by God into the God raised again, world, and crucified, and by the power of God raised saw no corruption. from the dead the third day, (before the time came wherein bodies naturally putrefy, viz., seventy-two hours after death, wherein the revolution of humours is accomplished,) never came to die again or putrefy at all.

38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren,

38. This, therefore, is the message we bring, the that through this gospel we preach unto you, that this Christ is the 12 For David indeed in his own generation having served the counsel of God, Aaßid μèv yàp ἰδίᾳ γενεᾷ ὑπηρετήσας τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ βουλῇ.