ACTS 13:52 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.”
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit — despite expulsion and hostility, the nascent community experiences joy (chara) and Spirit-filling (plethō tou Pneumatos), suggesting that persecution does not diminish spiritual vitality but rather intensifies it. This internal experience of joy amid external hardship establishes a leitmotif: the gospel community's resilience does not depend on social acceptance.
Church Fathers on Acts 13:52
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium. Acts 13:51 Here now they used that terrible sign which Christ enjoined, If any receive you not, shake off the dust from your feet Matthew 10:14; Mark 6:11; but these did it upon no light ground, but because they were driven away by them. This was no hurt to the disciples; on the contrary, they the more continued in the word: And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost Acts…
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