18 for about forty years he endured their conduct[1] in the wilderness;

Other Translations of Acts 13:18

King James Version

18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

English Standard Version

18 And for about forty years he put up withSome manuscripts he carried (compare Deuteronomy 1:31) them in the wilderness.

The Message

18 He took good care of them for nearly forty years in that godforsaken wilderness

New King James Version

18 Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.

New Living Translation

18 He put up with them through forty years of wandering in the wilderness.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 13:18

Commentary on Acts 13:14-31

(Read Acts 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.