Acts Chapter 14 verse 25 Holy Bible

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) And when they had preached the word in Perga.--The travellers retrace their steps. There is a coincidence more or less striking in the report of what they did at Perga. In Acts 13:13 there is no mention of their having preached in that city. We are simply told that Mark left them there, and that they then went on to Antioch. On their return, accordingly, they did what they had then left undone.They went down into Attalia.--On their first journey they had gone straight from Paphos to Perga up the Cestrus. Now they made a detour which led them to the port at the mouth of the Catarrhactes, named after Attalus Philadelphus, King of Pergamus. There is no record of any work done there, and they probably only went to it as the port where they were most likely to find a sailing-vessel that would take them to Antioch. Their ship would naturally pass between Cilicia and Cyprus, enter the Orontes at Seleucia, and sail up to Antioch.Whence they had been recommended.--Better, perhaps, commended, the compound form having slightly changed its meaning. The words seem to imply a mental survey on the part of the travellers of all that had passed since they had started on their journey. The "grace of God," to which they had then been commended, had not failed them.Parallel Commentaries ...GreekAnd [when]καὶ (kai)ConjunctionStrong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. they had spokenλαλήσαντες (lalēsantes)Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine PluralStrong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.theτὸν (ton)Article - Accusative Masculine SingularStrong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.wordλόγον (logon)Noun - Accusative Masculine SingularStrong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.inἐν (en)PrepositionStrong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.Perga,Πέργῃ (Pergē)Noun - Dative Feminine SingularStrong's 4011: Probably from the same as Pergamos; a tower; Perga, a place in Asia Minor.they went downκατέβησαν (katebēsan)Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person PluralStrong's 2597: To go down, come down, either from the sky or from higher land, descend. From kata and the base of basis; to descend.toεἰς (eis)PrepositionStrong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.Attalia.Ἀττάλειαν (Attaleian)Noun - Accusative Feminine SingularStrong's 825: Attalia, the port of Perga in Pamphylia. From Attalos; Attaleia, a place in Pamphylia.Jump to PreviousAttalia Message Perga Preached Preaching Telling Word