John Chrysostom, on Acts 13:14

“But they passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.”

“"They sat down in the synagogue," he says, and, "on the sabbath day": that they might prepare the way beforehand for the Word. And they do not speak first, but when invited: since as strangers, they called upon them to do so. Had they not waited, there would have been no discourse. Here for the first time we have Paul preaching. And observe his prudence: where the word was already sown, he passes on: but where there was none (to preach), he makes a stay: as he himself writes: "Yea, so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named." Great courage this also. Truly, from the very outset, a wonderful man! crucified, ready for all encounters, he knew how great grace he had obtained, and he brought to it zeal equivalent.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.