Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Acts 13:52

"And the disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit." — Acts 13:52 (ASV)

Having been expelled from Pisidian Antioch, Paul and Barnabas “shook the dust from their feet in protest against them”—a Jewish gesture of scorn and disassociation, which was directed at the city’s magistrates and the Jewish leaders. Then they went southeast on the Via Sebaste, heading for Iconium some eighty miles away. The new “disciples” left behind at Pisidian Antioch, far from being discouraged at this turn of events, were “filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.”