Acts Chapter 13 verse 12 Holy Bible
Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
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Then the ruler, when he saw what was done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of the Lord.
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Then the proconsul, seeing what had happened, believed, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.
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Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
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Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
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then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - The proconsul for the deputy, A.V.; teaching for doctrine, A.V. Believed. We cannot, perhaps, conclude positively from this that Sergius was baptized and became an avowed Christian, though the usual language of the Acts rather leads us to infer it (see ver. 48; Acts 2:44; Acts 4:4; Acts 8:12, 13; Acts 11:21; Acts 19:18). Farrar thinks that if so marked a person had become a lifelong convert, we should have heard of him as such in other writings, Renan says, "La conversion d'un Romain de cet ordre, a cette epoque est chose absolument inadmissible." Alford and Olshausen speak doubtfully. Lange and Howson and Meyer look upon him as a genuine convert. The 'Speaker's Commentary' speaks of him as "the first fruits of heathenism." Being astonished at the teaching. "For the connection of the judgment concerning the doctrine with the miracle seen, comp. Mark 1:27" (Meyer).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.--The genitive is, probably, that of the object, the teaching which had the Lord, i.e., the Lord Jesus, as its main theme.