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Acts 14:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
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Role in This Section
Reports proclamation and many disciples at Derbe before the return route.
Read It With
- Acts 14:19–14:28
Acts 14:21 reports proclamation and many disciples at Derbe before the return route; within Acts 14:19–14:28, the controlling movement is that Opponents arrive, Paul is stoned and left for dead, he reenters the city, revisits communities, appoints elders with prayer and fasting, and reports how God opened a door of faith to Gentiles.
Why It Needs Context
Reports proclamation and many disciples at Derbe before the return route. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 14:19–14:28; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 14:19–14:28 — Stoning gives way to return, strengthening, and reportingSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 14:19–14:28, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 14:19-14:28
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