Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the devout and honourable women—female proselytes of distinction, jaundiced against the new preachers by those Jewish ecclesiastics to whom they had learned to look up. The potent influence of the female character both for and against the truth is seen in every age of the Church's history.
expelled them—an easier thing than to refute them.
And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region—implying some stay in Antioch and missionary activity in its vicinity.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 13:50:
2 Corinthians 6:5
2 Corinthians 11:23
Galatians 4:29
2 Timothy 3:10
2 Timothy 3:11
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