Acts Chapter 14 verse 28 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 14:28

And they tarried no little time with the disciples.
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BBE Acts 14:28

And they were with the disciples there for a long time.
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DARBY Acts 14:28

And they stayed no little time with the disciples.
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KJV Acts 14:28

And there they abode long time with the disciples.
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WEB Acts 14:28

They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.
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YLT Acts 14:28

and they abode there not a little time with the disciples.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - They tarried for there they abode, A.V.; no little for long, A.V. Bishop Pearson reckons it a little more than a year; Lewin, "about a year;" Renan, "several months." No accurate statement can be gathered from St. Luke;s indefinite expression. With this chapter closes the account of St. Paul's first missionary tour. Cony-beare and Howson (pp. 177, 213) assign to it a duration of about nine months, from early spring, March, to November, when the sea would be closed; bringing him to Perga in May, and thence for the next five or six months into the mountains of Pisidia, where it was the custom for the inhabitants of the lowlands to congregate during the hot months. Others, however, as Lewin (pp. 156, 157), think the circuit must have occupied "about two years;" Wieseler (p. 224), "more than one year;" but Renan assigns to it "five years" (" Saint Paul," p. 55). "Conjectural estimates vary between two and eight years" ('Speaker's Commentary'). Lewin's estimate is, perhaps, the most probable. Whatever the exact period may have been, it was a time fruitful in consequences to the immortal interests of mankind.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) There they abode long time.--The words probably cover an interval of more than a year, during which it is reasonable to suppose that the preaching of the two Apostles drew together a large number of Gentile converts.