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Acts 13 — Sermon Preparation
Barnabas and Saul are commissioned and sent out on the first missionary journey, preaching through Cyprus and into Asia Minor. Below is a research summary for Acts 13, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 52
- verses
- 931 / 317
- Greek words / lemmas
- 42
- classic sermon excerpts
- 7
- preachers & commentators
Acts 13 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Παῦλος | Paûlos | G3972 | 8 | Paul, Paulus |
| Βαρναβᾶς | Barnábas | G921 | 6 | Barnabas |
| ἀνήρ | anḗr | G435 | 8 | fellow, husband, man, sir |
| λόγος | lógos | G3056 | 8 | account, cause, communication, concerning |
| διαφθορά | diaphthorá | G1312 | 4 | corruption |
| Σαῦλος | Saûlos | G4569 | 4 | Saul |
| λαός | laós | G2992 | 5 | people |
How preachers through history handled this text
42 public-domain excerpts on Acts 13, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare reading of the Scriptures in public assemblies is not enough; they should be expounded, and the people exhorted out of them. This is helping people in doing that which is necessary to make the word profitable, to apply it to themselves. Every thing is touched upon in this sermon, which might best prevail with Jews to receive and embrace Christ as the promised Messiah. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Acts 13:14–31 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Antioch 1— Acts 13:1
- Cyrene— Acts 13:1
- Jerusalem— Acts 13:13
- Pamphylia— Acts 13:13
- Paphos— Acts 13:13
- Perga— Acts 13:13
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