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Acts 13:14

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"They sat down in the synagogue," he says, and, "on the sabbath day": that they might prepare the way beforehand for the Word. And they do not speak first, but when invited: since as strangers, they called upon them to do so. Had they not waited, there would have been no discourse. Here for the first time we have Paul preaching. …

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Theophylact of Ohrid

They entered the synagogues in Jewish clothing, so as not to meet resistance and not be driven out, and thus achieved their goal in everything.

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Western Saints

Bede

They came to Antioch in Pisidia. There are two cities named Antioch: one in Coele-Syria, founded by King Seleucus, which was formerly called Reblata, which they say has the nearby spring of Daphne, and enjoys its abundant waters, in which the disciples were first named Christians; but the other Antioch, of which there is now mention, is in the province of Pisidia.

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