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New Life Version

Acts 13:52

The missionaries were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Antioch;   Holy Spirit;   Joy;   Law;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Emptiness-Fulness;   Holy Spirit;   Missions, World-Wide;   Spirit;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gentiles;   Joy;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Galatians, letter to the;   Holy spirit;   Joy;   Mission;   Timothy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Joy;   Paul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bible;   Canon of the New Testament;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Paul the Apostle;   Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);   Galatia ;   Galatians Epistle to the;   Holy Spirit (2);   Joy;   Joy (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Iconium;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Antioch;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joy;  

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the Lord's followers in Antioch were happy and filled with 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 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 went out of the Jewish place of worship, the people asked them to talk about these things on the next Day of Rest. 43 The people went from the place of worship. Many Jews and others who had become Jews followed Paul and Barnabas as they talked to the Jews. They told them to keep on trusting in the loving-favor of God. 44 Almost all of the people of the town came to hear the Word of God on the next Day of Rest. 45 The Jews were filled with jealousy when they saw so many people. They spoke against the things Paul said by saying he was wrong. They also spoke against God. 46 Paul and Barnabas said to the people in plain words, "We must preach the Word of God to you first. But because you put it aside, you are not good enough for life that lasts forever. So we will go to the people who are not Jews. 47 The Lord gave us a work to do. He said, ‘You are to be a light to the people who are not Jews. You are to preach so that men over all the earth can be saved from the punishment of their sins.'" 48 The people who were not Jews were glad when they heard this. They were thankful for the Word of God. Those who were chosen for life that lasts forever believed. 49 The Word of God was preached over all that land. 50 The Jews worked on the feelings of the women who were religious and respected. They worked on the leading men of the city also. They worked against Paul and Barnabas and made them leave their city. 51 But Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off from their feet against them and 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.


 
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