Acts 11:21
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believing, were converted to the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et erat manus Domini cum eis : multusque numerus credentium conversus est ad Dominum.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καὶ ἦν χεὶρ κυρίου μετʼ αὐτῶν, πολύς τε ἀριθμὸς ὁ πιστεύσας ἐπέστρεψεν ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XXV on Acts xi. 19
The persecution turned out to be no slight benefit as “to them that love God all things work together for good.” ( Rom. viii. 28 .) If they had made it their express study how best to establish the Church, they would have done no other thing than this, they dispersed the teachers. Mark in what quarters the preaching was extended. “They travelled,” it says, “as far as Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch; to none however did they preach the word but to Jews only.” Dost thou mark with what wise purposes of Providence so much was done in the case of Cornelius? This serves both to justify Christ, and to impeach the Jews. When Stephen was slain, when Paul was twice in danger, when the Apostles were scourged, then the Gentiles received the word, then the Samaritans. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John, John 14.8,9
Seest thou again that it is He who doeth it? “I,” saith He, “will do it”; not, “I will ask of the Father,” but, “that the Father may be glorified in Me.” In another place He said, “God shall glorify Him in Himself” ( c. xiii. 32 ), but here, “He shall glorify the Father”; for when the Son shall appear with great power, He who begat shall be glorified. But what is, “in My Name”? That which the Apostles said, “In the Name of Jesus Christ, arise and walk.” ( Acts iii. 6 .) For all the miracles which they did He wrought in them, and “the hand of the Lord was with them.” ( Acts xi. 21 .)
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).