Acts 14:17

Translations

Modern

Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

Traditional

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Literal

And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good, giving to you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

Latin

Et quidem non sine testimonio semetipsum reliquit benefaciens de cælo, dans pluvias et tempora fructifera, implens cibo et lætitia corda nostra.

Original

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English

Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

Notes

Acts 14:13–18

The apostles opposed the people's worship of idols and their attempt to offer sacrifices to them. They directed the people's worship to the living God. The apostles were representatives of God as they shared the good news of the Christian message.

Acts 14:8–20

Paul healed a man who could not use his feet. This is similar to an earlier event in 3:1–12. In Acts, Paul’s work is shown as similar to Peter’s work. The many signs and wonders done among the Jews were also done among the Gentiles.

Theme notes and profiles

Barnabas Paul (Saul) Natural Revelation

Events

First Missionary Journeyc. AD 45
Mission to Lystra and Derbe

Related verses

Romans 1:19–20
For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
Joel 2:23
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
Job 5:10
He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
Deuteronomy 11:14
…then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
Isaiah 5:6
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
Jeremiah 5:24
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Leviticus 26:4
I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
James 5:17–18
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Ezekiel 34:26
I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
Deuteronomy 8:12–14
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
Psalm 145:9
The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Book of the Acts of the Apostles Chronology of the Bible (New Testament) Galatia God, Being and Attributes of Heart Jerusalem Council Judaizers Lois Lycaonia Lystra Paul the Apostle Persecution Revelation Zeus

Topics

Barnabas: Called Jupiter (Zeus) Blessing: Temporal, from God Christian Minister: Persecution: Paul Fruits: Given by God Homage: Paul and Barnabas Lycaonia: Paul Visits Towns of Lystra: One of Two Cities of Lycaonia, to Which Paul and Barnabas Fled from Persecutions in Iconium Paul: The People Attempt to Worship Him Rain: God Exhibits Goodness in Giving Religion: Natural Religious Zeal: Exemplified by Paul The Four Seasons The Goodness of God: Manifested in Supplying Temporal Wants The Heathen: Have: Evidence of the Goodness of God

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