Apostelgeschichte 8:4
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Die nun, welche sich zerstreut hatten, zogen umher und verkündigten das Wort des Evangeliums.
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they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching--Though solemnly enjoined to do this (Luk 24:47; Act 1:8), they would probably have lingered at Jerusalem, but for this besom of persecution which swept them out. How often has the rage of Christ's enemies thus "turned out rather unto the furtherance of the Gospel" (see Phi 1:12-13).
Quelle öffnen ↗Samson's riddle is here again unriddled: Out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness. The persecution that was designed to extirpate the church was by the overruling providence of God made an occasion of the enlargement of it. Christ had said, I am come to send fire on the earth; and they thought, by scattering those who were kindled with that fire, to have put it out, but instead of this they did but help to spread it. I. Here is a general account of what was done by them all (Act 8:4): They went every where, preaching the word. They did not go to hide themselves for fear of suffering, no, nor to show themselves as proud of their sufferings; but they went up and down to scatter the knowledge of Christ in every place where they were scattered. They went every where, into the way of the Gentiles, and the cities of the Samaritans, which before they were forbidden to go into, Mat 10:5. They did not keep together in a body, though this might have been a strength to them; but they scattered into all parts, not to take their ease, but to find out work. They went evangelizing the world, preaching the word of the gospel; it was this which filled them, and which they endeavoured to fill the country with, those of them that were preachers in their preaching, and others in their common converse. They were now in a country where they were no strangers, for Christ and his disciples had conversed much in the regions of Judea; so that they had a foundation laid there for them to build upon; and it would be requisite to let the people there know what that doctrine which Jesus had preached there some time ago was come to, and that it was not lost and forgotten, as perhaps they were made to believe. II. A particular account of what was done by Philip. We shall hear…
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Wenn sie euch aber in der einen Stadt verfolgen, so fliehet in eine andere. Denn wahrlich, ich sage euch, ihr werdet mit den Städten Israels nicht fertig sein, bis des Menschen Sohn kommt.
Die nun, welche sich zerstreut hatten seit der Verfolgung, die sich wegen Stephanus erhoben hatte, zogen bis nach Phönizien und Cypern und Antiochia und redeten das Wort zu niemand, als nur zu Juden.
sondern, wiewohl wir zuvor gelitten hatten und mißhandelt worden waren zu Philippi, wie ihr wisset, gewannen wir dennoch Freudigkeit in unsrem Gott, bei euch das Evangelium Gottes zu verkünden unter viel Kampf.
Saulus aber hatte seiner Hinrichtung zugestimmt. Und es entstand an jenem Tage eine große Verfolgung über die Gemeinde zu Jerusalem, und alle zerstreuten sich in die Landschaften von Judäa und Samaria, ausgenommen die Apostel.
Paulus aber und Barnabas hielten sich in Antiochia auf und lehrten und predigten mit noch vielen andern das Wort des Herrn.