Acts 13:49

And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

And the word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And the word of the Lord was spread abroad throughout all the region.
- American Standard Version (1901)

And the word of the Lord went through all the country.
- Basic English Bible

And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole country.
- Darby Bible

And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
- Webster's Bible

So the Lord's Message spread through the whole district.
- Weymouth Bible

The Lord's word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
- World English Bible

And the word of the Lord was sowun bi al the cuntre.
- Wycliffe Bible

and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.
- Youngs Literal Bible

Wesley's Notes for Acts 13:49

13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us - By sending us forth, and giving us an opportunity of fulfilling what he had foretold. I have set thee - The Father speaks to Christ. #Isaiah 49:6|.

13:48 As many as were ordained to eternal life - St. Luke does not say fore - ordained. He is not speaking of what was done from eternity, but of what was then done, through the preaching of the Gospel. He is describing that ordination, and that only, which was at the very time of hearing it. During this sermon those believed, says the apostle, to whom God then gave power to believe. It is as if he had said, They believed, whose hearts the Lord opened; as he expresses it in a clearly parallel place, speaking of the same kind of ordination, #Acts 16:14|, &c. It is observable, the original word is not once used in Scripture to express eternal predestination of any kind. The sum is, all those and those only, who were now ordained, now believed. Not that God rejected the rest: it was his will that they also should have been saved: but they thrust salvation from them. Nor were they who then believed constrained to believe. But grace was then first copiously offered them. And they did not thrust it away, so that a great multitude even of Gentiles were converted. In a word, the expression properly implies, a present operation of Divine grace working faith in the hearers.