οι 3588 T-NPM δε 1161 CONJ ιουδαιοι 2453 A-NPM παρωτρυναν 3951 5656 V-AAI-3P τας 3588 T-APF σεβομενας 4576 5740 V-PNP-APF γυναικας 1135 N-APF και 2532 CONJ τας 3588 T-APF ευσχημονας 2158 A-APM και 2532 CONJ τους 3588 T-APM πρωτους 4413 A-APM της 3588 T-GSF πολεως 4172 N-GSF και 2532 CONJ επηγειραν 1892 5656 V-AAI-3P διωγμον 1375 N-ASM επι 1909 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM παυλον 3972 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ τον 3588 T-ASM βαρναβαν 921 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ εξεβαλον 1544 5627 V-2AAI-3P αυτους 846 P-APM απο 575 PREP των 3588 T-GPN οριων 3725 N-GPN αυτων 846 P-GPM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
50. Honorable (euschmonav). See on Mark xv. 43. Women of rank, or, as Rev., of honorable state.Coasts (oriwn). Not a good rendering, because it implies merely a sea-coast; whereas the word is a general one for boundaries.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
13:50 {Urged on} (parwtrunan). First aorist (effective) active of par-otrunw, old verb, but here alone in the N.T., to incite, to stir up. The Jews were apparently not numerous in this city as they had only one synagogue, but they had influence with people of prominence, like "the devout women of honorable estate" (tas sebomenas gunaikas tas euscemonas), the female convert of high station, a late use of an old word used about Joseph of Arimathea (#Mr 15:43). The rabbis went after these Gentile women who had embraced Judaism (cf. #Ac 17:4 in Thessalonica) as Paul had made an appeal to them. The prominence of women in public life here at Antioch is quite in accord with what we know of conditions in the cities of Asia Minor. "Thus women were appointed under the empire as civil officers, as presidents of the games, and even the Jews elected a woman as Archisynagogos, at least in one instance at Smyrna" (Knowling). In Damascus Josephus (_War_ II. 20, 21) says that a majority of the married women were convert. Strabo (VIII. 2) and Juvenal (VI. 542) speak of the addiction of women to the Jewish religion. {The chief men of the city} (tous prwtous tes polews). Probably city officials (the Duumviri, the Praetors, the First Ten in the Greek Cities of the east) or other "foremost" men, not officials. The rabbis were shrewd enough to reach these men (not convert) through the women who were convert of distinction. {Stirred up a persecution} (epegeiran diwgmon). First aorist active indicative of epegeirw, old verb, but in the N.T. only here and #14:2. Paul seems to allude to this persecution in #2Ti 3:11 "persecutions, sufferings, what things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, what persecutions I endured." Here Paul had perils from his own countrymen and perils from the Gentiles after the perils of rivers and perils of robbers on the way from Perga (#2Co 11:26). He was thrice beaten with rods (tris erhabdisqen, #2Co 11:25) by Roman lictors in some Roman colony. If that was here, qen Paul and Barnabas were publicly scourged by the lictors before they left. Probably the Jews succeeded in making the Roman officials look on Paul and Barnabas as disturbers of the public peace. So "they cast them out of their borders" (exebalon autous apo twn horiwn autwn). Second aorist active indicative of ekballw, forcible expulsion plainly as public nuisances. Just a few days before they were the heroes of the city and now!
