Acts 14:23
23When they had appointed elders ▼▼ Appointed elders. See Acts 20:17.
for them in the various churches, ▼▼ The preposition κατά (kata) is used here in a distributive sense; see BDAG 512 s.v. κατά B.1.d.
with prayer and fasting ▼▼ Literally with a finite verb (προσευξάμενοι, proseuxamenoi) rather than a noun, “praying with fasting,” but the combination “prayer and fasting” is so familiar in English that it is preferable to use it here.
they entrusted them to the protection ▼ of the Lord in whom they had believed.
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