Hi STP , and in Acts 13:46 the verb WE TURN / STREPHO is in the Greek PRESENT TENSE , PASSIVE VOICE and in the Indicative Mood !
Why is this important ?? as this ;places this we turn happened early in Paul's ministry !!
And other reason , why Acts 13:46 and Acts 18:6 and Acts 28:28 and the NUMBER 3 , means it is COMPLETE and will be accomplished !!
In Acts 28:28 , we have another verb WAS / APOSTELLO and is in the AOTIST TENSE or what we call the PAST TENSE and then means the the message to the Gentiles has already been SENT , not at Acts 28:28 !!
Also 2 Cor 3:13-16 , already speaks of Israel's fall before Acts 28:28 !!
The B O C BEGAN with a person and then given a message that is new and a MYSTERY to all !!
There are many other verse !!
dan p
Yep - exactly!
Excellent point about the actual sense of...
Acts 28:28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God
is sent (aroist or past tense = has been sent) unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
The sense is that it has long already been sent.
Many years earlier...
Acts 18:5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. 18:6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Decades earlier...
Acts 13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
A few years earlier still...
Acts 9:28 And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. 9:29 And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him. 9:30 Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
This here...
Galatians 1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. 1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; 1:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: 1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 1:24 And they glorified God in me.
What did he do in the regions of Syria and Clicia IN ACTS 9?
He preached his free from the law / no distinction gospel among Jews and Gentiles alike - we find that out later, in...
Acts 15:22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: 15:23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment: 15:25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 15:26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:36 And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the LORD, and see how they do.
15:40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. 15:41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
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Rom. 14:5; Rom. 5:6-8.