Acts 13:18 for about forty years he endured their conduct in the wilderness;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
for about forty years he endured their conduct in the wilderness;

English Standard Version
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

New American Standard Bible
"For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

King James Bible
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And for about 40 years He put up with them in the wilderness;

International Standard Version
After he had put up with them for 40 years in the wilderness,

American Standard Version
And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert.

Darby Bible Translation
and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.

Young's Literal Translation
and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,

Cross References

Numbers 14:34
After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.

Deuteronomy 1:31
And in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came into this place.

Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years did you forbear them, and testified against them by your spirit in your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Psalm 95:10
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Acts 7:36
He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:14-31 When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare reading of the Scriptures in public assemblies is not enough; they should be expounded, and the people exhorted out of them. This is helping people in doing that which is necessary to make the word profitable, to apply it to themselves. Every thing is touched upon in this sermon, which might best prevail with Jews to receive and embrace Christ as the promised Messiah. And every view, however short or faint, of the Lord's dealings with his church, reminds us of his mercy and long-suffering, and of man's ingratitude and perverseness. Paul passes from David to the Son of David, and shows that this Jesus is his promised Seed; a Saviour to do that for them, which the judges of old could not do, to save them from their sins, their worst enemies. When the apostles preached Christ as the Saviour, they were so far from concealing his death, that they always preached Christ crucified. Our complete separation from sin, is represented by our being buried with Christ. But he rose again from the dead, and saw no corruption: this was the great truth to be preached.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18-22. forty years suffered he their manners—rather, according to what appears the true reading, "cherished he them" (as a nurse the infant in her bosom).