Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. New Living Translation Then he traveled throughout Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches there. English Standard Version And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. Berean Standard Bible And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. Berean Literal Bible And he was passing through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. King James Bible And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. New King James Version And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. New American Standard Bible And he was traveling through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. NASB 1995 And he was traveling through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. NASB 1977 And he was traveling through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. Legacy Standard Bible And he was traveling through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. Amplified Bible And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. Christian Standard Bible He traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. Holman Christian Standard Bible He traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. American Standard Version And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And he was traveling in Syria and in Qiliqia, and he was confirming the churches. Contemporary English Version They traveled through Syria and Cilicia, encouraging the churches. Douay-Rheims Bible And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches, commanding them to keep the precepts of the apostles and the ancients. English Revised Version And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. GOD'S WORD® Translation Paul went through the provinces of Syria and Cilicia and strengthened the churches. Good News Translation He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. International Standard Version He went through Syria and Cilicia and strengthened the churches. Literal Standard Version and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies. Majority Standard Bible And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. New American Bible He traveled through Syria and Cilicia bringing strength to the churches. NET Bible He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. New Revised Standard Version He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. New Heart English Bible He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. Webster's Bible Translation And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. Weymouth New Testament and he passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the Churches. World English Bible He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies. Young's Literal Translation and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Paul's Second Missionary Journey…40but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. 41And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. Cross References Matthew 4:24 News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed--and He healed them. Acts 6:9 But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They began to argue with Stephen, Acts 15:23 and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings. Galatians 1:21 Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. Treasury of Scripture And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. through. Acts 15:23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Acts 18:18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. Acts 21:3 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. confirming. Acts 15:32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them. Acts 16:4,5 And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem… Jump to Previous Assemblies Churches Cilicia Cili'cia Confirming Faith Making Passed Strengthening Stronger Syria TravelingJump to Next Assemblies Churches Cilicia Cili'cia Confirming Faith Making Passed Strengthening Stronger Syria TravelingActs 15 1. Great dissensions arise regarding circumcision.5. The apostles consult about it, 22. and send their determination by letters to the churches. 36. Paul and Barnabas, thinking to visit the brothers together, 39. disagree, and travel different ways. (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. Verse 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). |