Acts Chapter 15 verse 41 Holy Bible
And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
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And he went through Syria and Cilicia, making the churches stronger in the faith.
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And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.
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And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
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He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
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and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 41. - Syria and Cilicia (see ver. 23). This rather looks as if the "some days after" of ver. 36 did not cover a very long time, because the special mention of "the Churches of Syria and Cilicia" indicates that St. Paul's visit had some connection with the epistle addressed to them by the apostles and elders of the Church of Jerusalem (ver. 23), as we see from Acts 16:4 was the case. Confirming; as Acts 14:22; Acts 15:32; Acts 18:22 (T.R.). In the passive voice ἐπιστηρίζομαι means to "lean upon," as in 2 Samuel 1:6, LXX., and in classical Greek. Renan thus indicates their probable route: "They traveled by land northwards across the plain of Antioch, went through the 'Syrian Gates,' coasted the gulf of the Issus, crossed the northern branch of the Issus through the 'Amanean Gates,' then,, traversing Cilicia, went perhaps through Tarsus, crossed Mount Taurus through the 'Cilician Gates,' one of the most terrible passes in the world, and thus reached Lycaonia, going as far as Derbe, Lystra, and Iconium" ('St. Paul,' p. 123).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(41) He went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.--Cilicia, it will be remembered, had not been visited on St. Paul's first journey with Barnabas, and the churches must accordingly have been founded at some earlier period, probably during St. Paul's residence at Tarsus before he came to Antioch (Acts 9:30; Acts 11:25).Confirming is, it need hardly be said, used in the general sense of "strengthening," but as the bestowal of spiritual gifts by the laying-on of hands was a chief part of the work so done, it, at least, approximates to the idea of "confirming" in the later and more technical sense of the term.