Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, etc.—The apostle here speaks as if the more immediate guilt of Christ's death lay with the rulers and people of the metropolis, to which he fondly hoped that those residing at such a distance as Antioch would not set their seal.
children . . . of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God—Gentile proselytes.
to you is the word of this salvation sent—both being regarded as one class, as "the Jew first," to whom the Gospel was to be addressed in the first instance.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 13:27:
John 19:18
Acts 3:17-21
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