geneva - Acts:12-13

geneva@Acts:12:1 @ Now (note:)God gives his Church peace only for a short time.(:note) about that time This name Herod was common to all those that come from the stock of Herod Ascalonites, whose surname was Magnus: but he that is spoken of here was nephew to Herod the great, son to Aristobulus, and father to the Agrippa who is spoken of afterwards. Herod the king stretched forth [his] hands to vex certain of the church.

geneva@Acts:12:2 @ And he (note:)Violently, his cause not being heard at all.(:note) killed James the brother of John with the sword.

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geneva@Acts:12:6 @ And when Herod woulde haue brought him out vnto the people, the same night slept Peter betweene two souldiers, bound with two chaines, and the keepers before the doore, kept the prison.

geneva@Acts:12:7 @ And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon [him], and a light shined in the (note:)Literally, «habitation»; (Ed.).(:note) prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from [his] hands.

geneva@Acts:12:8 @ And the Angel saide vnto him, Girde thy selfe, and binde on thy sandales; so he did. Then he said vnto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and followe me.

geneva@Acts:12:9 @ So Peter came out and followed him, and knewe not that it was true, which was done by the Angel, but thought he had seene a vision.

geneva@Acts:12:10 @ Nowe when they were past the first and the second watch, they came vnto the yron gate, that leadeth vnto the citie, which opened to them by it owne accord, and they went out, and passed through one streete, and by and by the Angel departed from him.

geneva@Acts:12:11 @ And when Peter was come to himselfe, he said, Nowe I know for a trueth, that the Lord hath sent his Angel, and hath deliuered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the wayting for of the people of the Iewes.

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geneva@Acts:12:14 @ But when she knew Peters voyce, she opened not the entrie doore for gladnesse, but ranne in, and tolde howe Peter stood before the entrie.

geneva@Acts:12:15 @ But they said vnto her, Thou art mad. Yet she affirmed it constantly, that it was so. Then said they, It is his Angel.

geneva@Acts:12:16 @ But Peter continued knocking, and when they had opened it, and sawe him, they were astonied.

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geneva@Acts:12:19 @ And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commaunded them to be led to be punished; he went downe from Iudea to Cesarea, and there abode.

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geneva@Acts:12:21 @ And vpon a day appointed, Herod arayed himselfe in royall apparell, and sate on the iudgement seate, and made an oration vnto them.

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geneva@Acts:12:25 @ So Barnabas and Saul returned from Hierusalem, when they had fulfilled their office, and tooke with them Iohn, whose surname was Marke.

geneva@Acts:13:1 @ Now (note:)Paul with Barnabas is again the second time appointed apostle of the Gentiles, not of man, neither by man, but by an extraordinary commandment of the Holy Spirit.(:note) there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with This was the same Antipas who put John the Baptist to death. Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

geneva@Acts:13:2 @ As they (note:)While they were busy doing their office, that is, as Chrysostom expounds it, while they were preaching.(:note) ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have The Lord is said to call, from which this word «called» comes from, which is common in the Church, when he causes that to be which was not, whether you refer it to the matter itself, or to any quality or thing about the matter: and the use of the word «call» has come about because when things begin to be, then they have some name: and furthermore this also declares God's mighty power, in that he spoke the word, and things were made. called them.

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geneva@Acts:13:5 @ And when they were at Salamis, they preached the worde of God in the Synagogues of the Iewes: and they had also Iohn to their minister.

geneva@Acts:13:6 @ So when they had gone throughout the yle vnto Paphus, they found a certaine sorcerer, a false prophet, being a Iewe, named Bariesus,

geneva@Acts:13:7 @ Which was with the Deputie Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He called vnto him Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the woorde of God.

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geneva@Acts:13:9 @ Then Saul (which also is called Paul) being full of the holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,

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geneva@Acts:13:11 @ And now, behold, the (note:)His power which he shows in striking and beating down his enemies.(:note) hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

geneva@Acts:13:12 @ Then the Deputie when he sawe what was done, beleeued, and was astonied at the doctrine of the Lord.

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geneva@Acts:13:14 @ But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in (note:)This distinguishes between it, and Antioch which was in Syria.(:note) Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

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geneva@Acts:13:17 @ The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and (note:)Advanced and brought to honour.(:note) exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an Openly and with strong power, breaking in pieces the enemies of his people. high arm brought he them out of it.

geneva@Acts:13:18 @ And about the time of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.

geneva@Acts:13:19 @ And he destroied seuen nations in the land of Chanaan, & deuided their lad to them by lot.

geneva@Acts:13:20 @ And after that he gave [unto them] judges about the space of (note:)There were from the birth of Isaac until the destruction of the Canaanites under the governance of Joshua four hundred and forty-seven years, and therefore he adds in this place the word «about», for three years are missing; the apostle, however, uses the whole greater number.(:note) four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

geneva@Acts:13:21 @ 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 (note:)In this space of forty years the time of Samuel must be counted and included with the days of Saul, for the kingdom did as it were include his administration.(:note) forty years.

geneva@Acts:13:22 @ And after he had taken him away, he raised vp Dauid to be their King, of whom he witnessed, saying, I haue found Dauid the sonne of Iesse, a man after mine owne heart, which will doe all things that I will.

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geneva@Acts:13:24 @ When John had first preached (note:)John as a herald did not show Christ coming from afar off, as the other prophets did, but right at hand and having already begun his journey.(:note) before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

geneva@Acts:13:25 @ And when Iohn had fulfilled his course, he saide, Whom ye thinke that I am, I am not he: but beholde, there commeth one after me, whose shooe of his feete I am not worthy to loose.

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geneva@Acts:13:28 @ And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate to kill him.

geneva@Acts:13:29 @ And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they tooke him downe from the tree, and put him in a sepulchre.

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geneva@Acts:13:31 @ And hee was seene many dayes of them, which came vp with him from Galile to Hierusalem, which are his witnesses vnto the people.

geneva@Acts:13:32 @ And we declare vnto you, that touching the promise made vnto the fathers,

geneva@Acts:13:33 @ God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he (note:)For then he appeared plainly and manifestly as the only Son of God, when he left behind his weakness and came out of the grave, having conquered death.(:note) hath raised up Jesus again; If Christ had remained dead, he would not have been the true Son of God, neither would the covenant which was made with David have been certain. as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

geneva@Acts:13:34 @ And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, [now] no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the (note:)The Greeks call those things «holy things» which the Hebrews call «gracious bounties»: and they are called David's bounties in the passive voice, because God bestowed them upon David. Moreover, they are termed «sure», after the manner of speech which the Hebrews use, who terms those things «sure» which are steady and certain, and such things which never alter or change.(:note) sure mercies of David.

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geneva@Acts:13:36 @ Howbeit, Dauid after hee had serued his time by the counsell of God, hee slept, and was laid with his fathers, and sawe corruption.

geneva@Acts:13:37 @ But he whom God raised vp, sawe no corruption.

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geneva@Acts:13:39 @ And by him all that believe are justified from (note:)Whereas the ceremonies of the Law could not absolve you from your sins, this man absolves you, if you lay hold of him by faith.(:note) all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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geneva@Acts:13:41 @ Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and vanish away: for I woorke a woorke in your daies, a woorke which yee shall not beleeue, if a man would declare it you.

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geneva@Acts:13:43 @ Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and (note:)Who had forsaken their heathen religion, and embraced the religion set forth by Moses.(:note) religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

geneva@Acts:13:44 @ And ye next Sabbath day came almost the whole citie together, to heare the worde of God.

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geneva@Acts:13:47 @ For so hath the Lord commanded vs, saying, I haue made thee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be the saluation vnto the end of the world.

geneva@Acts:13:48 @ And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were (note:)Therefore either all were not appointed to everlasting life, or either all believed, but because all did not believe, it follows that certain ones were ordained: and therefore God did not only foreknow, but also foreordained, that neither faith nor the effects of faith should be the cause of his ordaining, or appointment, but his ordaining the cause of faith.(:note) ordained to eternal life believed.

geneva@Acts:13:49 @ Thus the worde of the Lord was published throughout the whole countrey.

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geneva@Acts:13:52 @ And the disciples were filled with ioy, and with the holy Ghost.

geneva@Acts:14:1 @ And (note:)We should be no less constant in the preaching of the Gospel than the perversity of the wicked is obstinate in persecuting it.(:note) it came to pass in Iconium was a city of Lycaonia. Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.