Acts Chapter 13 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 13:16

And Paul stood up, and beckoning with the hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hearken:
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BBE Acts 13:16

And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear.
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DARBY Acts 13:16

And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.
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KJV Acts 13:16

Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
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WEB Acts 13:16

Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
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YLT Acts 13:16

And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, `Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken:
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And for then, A.V.; the for Ms, A.V.; hearken for give audience, A.V. Beckoning with the hand (see Acts 12:17, note). Ye that fear God; addressed to the devout heathen who attended the synagogue service (see Acts 10:2, note, and 22; ver. 43 of this chapter; Acts 15:21; 16:14; 17:4, 17; 18:7).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Beckoning with his hand.--The gesture was rather that of one who waves his hand to command silence and attention than what we commonly describe as beckoning. (Comp. Acts 12:17.) The graphic touch of description would seem to indicate, as does the full report of the speech, that they came in the first instance from one who had been present. A like touch is found again in connection with St. Paul in Acts 21:40. It was, probably, like the "fixing of the eye," in Acts 13:9, just one of the personal characteristics on which the painter-historian loved to dwell. We may assume, as almost certain, that throughout this journey St. Paul used Greek as the common medium of intercourse. The verbal coincidences in Acts 13:17-18, already referred to in the Note on Acts 13:15, make it, in this instance, absolutely certain.Men of Israel, and ye that fear God.--The latter phrase denotes, as in Acts 10:2; Acts 10:22, those who, though in the synagogue, were of heathen origin, and had not become proselytes in the full sense of the term, but were known as the so-called "proselytes of the gate." . . .