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Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
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God's Unstoppable Plan
Commentators unanimously see God's sovereign hand at work. The persecution intended to crush the early church became the very catalyst that spread the gospel beyond Jerusalem. As several scholars note, the attempt to stamp out the new faith only gave it a wider scope, demonstrating how God uses even opposition to fulfill His purposes.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Went everywhere. That is, they traveled through the various regions where they were scattered. In all places to which they came, they prea…
They therefore (ο μεν ουν). Demonstrative ο as often (1:6, etc.) though it will make sense as the article with the participle διασ…
19th Century
Anglican
Those who were scattered abroad.—These, as has been said above, were in all probability Stephen’s Hellenistic fel…
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Baptist
Therefore those who were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.
They might have stopped at Jerusalem and made a comfo…
Luke records the mission to Samaria as inaugurated by Philip and carried on by Peter and John as “Exhibit A” for his thesis that “those who had bee…
16th Century
Protestant
And they were scattered abroad. Luke declares in this passage also, that it came about by the wonderful providence of God, that the scatte…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore they that were scattered abroad By reason of the persecution in Jerusalem: the seventy disciples, and other min…
Though persecution must not drive us from our work, yet it may send us to work elsewhere. Wherever the established believer is driven, he carries t…
