Paul's First Missionary Journey - In Pisidian Antioch; Acts 13:13 – 52 Part 2

Church History: Perga in Pamphylia was a noted place, especially for a temple there erected to the goddess Diana, yet nothing at all is told of what Paul and Barnabas did there, only that they came, and then they departed. But the history of the apostles' travels, as that of Christ's, passes by many things worthy enough to have been recorded, because, if all had been written, the world could not have contained the books. But the next place we find them in is another Antioch, said to be in Pisidia, to distinguish it from that Antioch in Syria from which they were sent out. Pisidia was a province of the Lesser Asia, bordering upon Pamphylia; this Antioch, it is likely, was the metropolis of it. An abundance of Jews lived there, and to them the gospel was to be preached first. Paul's sermon to them is what we have in these verses, which, it is likely, is the substance of what was preached by the apostles generally to the Jews in all places. In dealing with them the proper way was to show them how the New Testament, which they wanted them to receive, agreed exactly with the Old Testament, which they not only received, but were zealous for.
Recently they had had good success with a Roman deputy, yet, when they came to Antioch, they did not enquire of the chief magistrate or make an appointment with him, but they applied to the Jews, which is a further proof of their good affection of them and their concern for their welfare. They observed their time of worship, on the Sabbath day, the Jewish Sabbath. The first day of the week they observed among themselves as a Christian Sabbath; but, if they were to meet with the Jews, it must be on the Seventh-Day Sabbath, which upon such occasions, they observe. For, though it was by the death of Christ that the ceremonial law died, yet it was in the ruins of Jerusalem that it was to be buried; and therefore, though the morality of the fourth commandment was entirely transferred to the Christian Sabbath, yet it was not inappropriate to join with the Jews in their Sabbath sanctification.