They therefore that were scattered abroad (ο μεν ουν διασπαρεντες). Precisely the same words used in 8:4 about those scattered by …

Now they, etc. This verse introduces a new line of historical observation, and from this point, the course of the history of the Acts of t…

Now they which were scattered abroad.—A new and important section begins with these words. We are carried back to the dat…

Luke opens his account of the Gospel’s proclamation at Antioch of Syria with the same words with which he began the story of the mission to Samaria…

Those which were scattered abroad. Luke returns now to the former history (and to what followed in it). For he had said before that after …

Now they who were scattered abroad
These were not the apostles, but the other ministers of the word; see ([Reference…

The first preachers of the gospel at Antioch were dispersed from Jerusalem by persecution; thus, what was meant to hurt the church was made to work…