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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 13:15
After the reading. In the synagogue worship the reading of the
Scriptures made a very important part. As copies of the Scriptures were
very rare, this reading was necessary to convey scriptural instruction
to the people. They were read in course, two lessons each Sabbath, one
from the five books of Moses, the other from the other books of the Old
Testament. Plummptree insists that we are enabled by two curious
coincidences to fix, with very little uncertainty, the precise Sabbath
on which the mission work at Antioch opened. The opening words of Paul
refer to Deuteronomy 1:31, and this was the lesson for the forty-fourth
Sabbath in the year, which fell in July or August; the corresponding
second lesson from the prophets being Isaiah 1:1-27, from which he
also quotes. He starts, as was natural, from what the people had just
been listening to, as the text of his discourse.
The rulers of the synagogue. The synagogue was governed by a board
of elders.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 6:1
Acts 13:15
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