translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ACT

label: NET study note

text: Iconium. See the note in 13:51 .


text: See the note on synagogue in 6:9 .


text: The Lord testified to the message by granting the signs described in the following clause.


text: Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) south of Iconium, a Roman colony that was not on the main roads of Lycaonia. Because of its relative isolation, its local character was able to be preserved. map For location see JP1-E2 ; JP2-E2 ; JP3-E2 .


text: Derbe was a city in Lycaonia about 35 mi (60 km) southeast of Lystra. map For location see JP1-E2 ; JP2-E2 ; JP3-E2 .


text: Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) south of Iconium. map For location see JP1-E2 ; JP2-E2 ; JP3-E2 .


text: Zeus was the chief Greek deity, worshiped throughout the Greco-Roman world (known to the Romans as Jupiter).


text: Hermes was a Greek god who (according to Greek mythology) was the messenger of the gods and the god of oratory (equivalent to the Roman god Mercury).


text: See the note on Zeus in the previous verse.


text: The apostles Barnabas and Paul. This is one of only two places where Luke calls Paul an apostle, and the description here is shared with Barnabas. This is a nontechnical use here, referring to a commissioned messenger.


text: God’s general sovereignty and gracious care in the creation are the way Paul introduces the theme of the goodness of God. He was trying to establish monotheism here. It is an OT theme ( Gen 8:22 ; Ps 4:7; 145:15-16; 147:8-9 ; Isa 25:6 ; Jer 5:24 ) which also appears in the NT ( Luke 12:22-34 ).


text: Antioch was a city in Pisidia about 90 mi (145 km) west northwest of Lystra. map For location see JP1-E2 ; JP2-E2 ; JP3-E2 ; JP4-E2 .


text: Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) north of Lystra. Note how Jews from other cities were chasing Paul ( 2 Cor 11:4-6 ; Gal 2:4-5 ; Acts 9:16 ).


text: Derbe was a city in Lycaonia about 35 mi (60 km) southeast of Lystra. This was the easternmost point of the journey. map For location see JP1-E2 ; JP2-E2 ; JP3-E2 .


text: Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 35 mi (60 km) northwest of Derbe. map For location see JP1-E2 ; JP2-E2 ; JP3-E2 .


text: Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) north of Lystra.


text: And encouraged them to continue. The exhortations are like those noted in Acts 11:23; 13:43 . An example of such a speech is found in Acts 20:18-35 . Christianity is now characterized as “the faith.”


text: This reference to the kingdom of God clearly refers to its future arrival.


text: Appointed elders. See Acts 20:17 .


text: Pamphylia was a province along the southern coast of Asia Minor.


text: Perga was a city in Pamphylia near the southern coast of Asia Minor.


text: Attalia was a seaport in the province of Pamphylia on the southern coast of Asia Minor, about 12 mi (20 km) southwest of Perga.


text: Antioch was the city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia) from which Paul’s first missionary journey began (see Acts 13:1-4 ). That first missionary journey ends here, after covering some 1,400 mi (2,240 km). map For location see JP1-F2 ; JP2-F2 ; JP3-F2 ; JP4-F2 .


text: Note that God is the subject of the activity. The outcome of this mission is seen as a confirmation of the mission to the Gentiles.


text: On the image of opening , or of the door , see 1 Cor 16:9 ; 2 Cor 2:12 ; Col 4:3 .