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Acts 12:24
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22 And the people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a man!”
23 Then immediately an angel of the Lord astruck him, because bhe did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and1 died.  
24 But athe word of God grew and multiplied.  

Barnabas and Saul Appointed

25 And aBarnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had bfulfilled their ministry, and they also ctook with them dJohn whose surname was Mark. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Acts 12:24

But the word of God - The Christian doctrine preached by the apostles grew and multiplied - became more evident, and had daily accessions; for the spirit of revelation rested on those men, and God was daily adding to that word as circumstances required, in order to complete that testimony of his which we now find contained in the New Testament. As there is in the original an allusion to the vegetation of grain, ( , it grew, as corn grows, the stalk and the ear; , it was multiplied, as the corn is in the full ear), there is probably a reference to the parable of the Sower and his seed; for the seed is the word of God, and the doctrine of the kingdom. It was liberally sown; it grew vigorously, and became greatly multiplied. And why? Because it was the word, the doctrine of God - there was no corruption in it; and because God watered it with the dew of heaven from on high.


 
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