Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Acts 13:50

“But the Jews stirred up religious and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas: and cast them out of their coasts.”

“the devout and honourable women--female proselytes of distinction, jaundiced against the new preachers by those Jewish ecclesiastics to whom they had learned to look up. The potent influence of the female character both for and against the truth is seen in every age of the Church's history. expelled them--an easier thing than to refute them.”

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