Act 10:7, 13:50, 17:4, 17 | PNT | STEP | Two of his household servants, and a devout soldier . The first were his personal servants. the second his military household; all, no doubt, "devout" ( see PNT ).

Acts 10:7

Two of his household servants, and a devout soldier. The first were his personal servants. the second his military household; all, no doubt, "devout" (see PNT Ac 10:2).

Acts 13:50

The Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women. Gentile women of high rank ("devout women of honourable estate", Revised Version), who had learned to revere the One God (see PNT Ac 10:2). Strabo, a Roman writer, declares that the women in this part of Asia exerted a powerful influence.

And the chief men. Probably the husbands of these women.

Raised persecution. There was probably no appeal to the magistrates, who were Romans (Antioch of Pisidia was a Roman colony), but they excited tumultuous opposition. The missionaries retired for the time, because their work was interrupted. They were not exiled, for they returned afterward (Ac 14:21).

Acts 17:4

Some of them believed. Of the Jews who heard in the synagogue. Also, of the devout Greeks a great multitude. These were religious Gentiles who had departed from heathenism, attended the synagogue, but had not been circumcised.

See PNT Ac 10:2.

Of the chief women. Some of them, no doubt, the wives of the "devout Greeks". Some of the converts made during Paul's stay were idolaters (1Th 1:9). The result of these labors was the establishment of a flourishing church, the existence of which called out the two letters to the Thessalonians.

Acts 17:17

Disputed . . . in the market. There was in Athens one great "market place", or public square. The porches around it were favorite places for discussion.

Devout persons.

See PNT Ac 10:2.