Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Long time therefore (ikanon men oun xronon). Accusative of duration of time (possibly six months) and note men oun. There is an antithesis in esxisqh de (verse Acts 14:4) and in verse Acts 14:5 (egeneto de). After the persecution and vindication there was a season of great opportunity which Paul and Barnabas used to the full, "speaking boldly" (parrhsiazomenoi as in Acts 13:46 at Antioch in Pisidia, "in the Lord" (epi tw kuriw), upon the basis of the Lord Jesus as in Acts 4:17 f. And the Lord Jesus "bore witness to the word of his grace" as he always does, "granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands" (didonti shmeia kai terata ginesqai dia twn xeirwn autwn). Present participle (didonti) and present infinitive (ginesqai) repetition of both signs and wonders (note both words) just as had happened with Peter and John and the other apostles (Acts 2:43; Acts 4:29 f.; Acts 5:12; cf. Hebrews 2:4). The time of peace could not last forever with such a work of grace as this. A second explosion of persecution was bound to come and some of the MSS. actually have ek deuterou (a second time).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 14:3:
John 3:22
Acts 2:41
Acts 14:9
Acts 15:35
2 Timothy 3:11
Revelation 3:9
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