Acts 13:52

Easy-to-Read Version

But the Lord's followers in Antioch were happy and filled with the Holy Spirit.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

King James Version (1611)
And the disciples were filled with ioy, and with the holy Ghost.

King James Version
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.

English Standard Version
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

New American Standard Bible
And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

New Century Version
But the followers were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

Amplified Bible
And the disciples were continually filled [throughout their hearts and souls] with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Berean Standard Bible
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Contemporary English Version
But the Lord's followers in Antioch were very happy and were filled with the Holy Spirit.

Complete Jewish Bible
and the talmidim were filled with joy and with the Ruach HaKodesh.

Darby Translation
And the disciples were filled with joy and [the] Holy Spirit.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the disciples were filled with ioy, and with the holy Ghost.

George Lamsa Translation
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit.

Good News Translation
The believers in Antioch were full of joy and the Holy Spirit.

Lexham English Bible
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Literal Translation
And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

American Standard Version
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Bible in Basic English
And the disciples were full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.

Hebrew Names Version
The talmidim were filled with joy with the Ruach HaKodesh.

International Standard Version
Meanwhile, the disciples continued to be full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.Matthew 5:12; John 16:22; Acts 2:46;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Spirit of Holiness.

Murdock Translation
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the disciples were fylled with ioy, and with the holy ghost.

English Revised Version
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.

World English Bible
The disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.

Weymouth's New Testament
and as for the disciples, they were more and more filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the disciplis weren fillid with ioye and the Hooli Goost.

Update Bible Version
And the disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

New English Translation
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

New King James Version
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

New Living Translation
And the believers were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

New Life Bible
The missionaries were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

New Revised Standard
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the disciples, were filled with joy, and with Holy Spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.

Revised Standard Version
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the disciples were filled with ioye and with the holy goost.

Young's Literal Translation
and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the disciples were fylled with ioye and with the holy goost.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and the disciples were filled with joy, and with the holy spirit.

Simplified Cowboy Version
And all the believers around there were filled with the Holy Ghost.

Contextual Overview

⁴² As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people asked them to come again on the next Sabbath day and tell them more about these things. ⁴³ After the meeting, many of the people followed Paul and Barnabas, including many Jews and people who had changed their religion to be like Jews and worship the true God. Paul and Barnabas encouraged them to continue trusting in God's grace. ⁴⁴ On the next Sabbath day, almost all the people in the city came together to hear the word of the Lord. ⁴⁵ When the Jews there saw all these people, they became very jealous. Shouting insults, they argued against everything Paul said. ⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas spoke very boldly. They said, "We had to tell God's message to you Jews first, but you refuse to listen. You have made it clear that you are not worthy of having eternal life. So we will now go to those who are not Jews. ⁴⁷ This is what the Lord told us to do: ‘I have made you a light for the other nations, to show people all over the world the way to be saved.'" ⁴⁸ When the non-Jewish people heard Paul say this, they were happy. They gave honor to the message of the Lord, and many of them believed it. These were the ones chosen to have eternal life. ⁴⁹ And so the message of the Lord was being told throughout the whole country. ⁵⁰ But the Jews there caused some of the important religious women and the leaders of the city to be angry and turn against Paul and Barnabas and throw them out of town. ⁵¹ So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet. Then they went to the city of Iconium.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were: Acts 2:46, Acts 5:41, Matthew 5:12, Luke 6:22, Luke 6:23, John 16:22, John 16:23, Romans 5:3, Romans 14:17, Romans 15:13, 2 Corinthians 8:2, 1 Thessalonians 1:6, James 1:2, 1 Peter 1:6-8, 1 Peter 4:13

with the: Acts 2:4, Acts 4:31, Galatians 5:22, Ephesians 5:18-20

Reciprocal: John 14:16 - another John 17:13 - that Acts 8:8 - General Acts 8:39 - and he Acts 9:17 - and be Acts 15:3 - they caused

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the disciples were filled with joy,.... Meaning either the "apostles", as the Ethiopic version renders it, Paul and Barnabas; who rejoiced, both at the success they had met with, and because they were counted worthy to suffer reproach and persecution for the sake of Christ and his Gospel: or rather the disciples at Antioch, and other parts of Pisidia, the new converts; who were filled with joy at the Gospel being preached unto them, and at the constancy and courage of the apostles in suffering for it:

and with the Holy Ghost; which, with the former, designs the same thing as spiritual joy, or joy in the Holy Ghost; or else the gifts and graces of the Spirit, which they had both for their own comfort, and the advantage of others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the disciples - The disciples in Antioch.

Were filled with joy - This happened even in the midst of persecution, and is one of the many evidences that the gospel is able to fill the soul with joy even in the severest trials.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 13:52. The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost. — Though in the world they had tribulation, yet in Christ they had peace; and, while engaged in their Master's work, they always had their Master's wages. The happiness of a genuine Christian lies far beyond the reach of earthly disturbances, and is not affected by the changes and chances to which mortal things are exposed. The martyrs were more happy in the flames than their persecutors could be on their beds of down.

St. Paul's sermon at Antioch has been thus analyzed.

1. His prologue, Acts 13:16, addressed to those who fear God.

2. His narrative of God's goodness to Israel: 1. In their deliverance from Egypt. 2. In their support in the wilderness. 3. In his giving them the land of Canaan. 4. In the judges and kings which he had given for their governors, Acts 13:7-22.

3. His proposition, that Jesus was the Christ, the Saviour of the world, Acts 13:23.

4. The illustration of this proposition, proving its truth: 1. From Christ's stock and family, Acts 13:23. 2. From the testimony of his forerunner, Acts 13:24. 3. From the resurrection of Christ, Acts 13:30; which was corroborated with the testimony of many Galileans, Acts 13:31, and of the prophets, David, Acts 13:33; Acts 13:35, and Isaiah, Acts 13:34.

5. He anticipates objections, relative to the unjust condemnation, death and burial of Christ, Acts 13:27-29.

6. His epilogue, in which he excites his audience to embrace the Gospel on two considerations: 1. The benefits which they receive who embrace the Gospel, Acts 13:38; Acts 13:39. 2. The danger to which they were exposed who should despise and reject it, Acts 13:40; Acts 13:41.