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<a href="/nasb/acts/16.htm">NASB 1995</a> They passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; <a href="/nasb77/acts/16.htm">NASB 1977 </a> And they passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; <a href="/lsb/acts/16.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And they passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; <a href="/amp/acts/16.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Now they passed through the territory of Phrygia and Galatia, after being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in [the west coast province of] Asia [Minor]; <a href="/csb/acts/16.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia; they had been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. <a href="/hcsb/acts/16.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia. <a href="/asv/acts/16.htm">American Standard Version</a> And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; <a href="/cev/acts/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Paul and his friends went through Phrygia and Galatia, but the Holy Spirit would not let them preach in Asia. <a href="/erv/acts/16.htm">English Revised Version</a> And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia; <a href="/gwt/acts/16.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Paul and Silas went through the regions of Phrygia and Galatia because the Holy Spirit kept them from speaking the word in the province of Asia. <a href="/gnt/acts/16.htm">Good News Translation</a> They traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia because the Holy Spirit did not let them preach the message in the province of Asia. <a href="/isv/acts/16.htm">International Standard Version</a> Because they had been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia, Paul and Timothy went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia. <a href="/msb/acts/16.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia. <a href="/net/acts/16.htm">NET Bible</a> They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia. <a href="/nheb/acts/16.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. <a href="/wbt/acts/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia, and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia; <a href="/wey/acts/16.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Then Paul and his companions passed through Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Message in the province of Asia. <a href="/web/acts/16.htm">World English Bible</a> When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/acts/16.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, <a href="/blb/acts/16.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, <a href="/ylt/acts/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, <a href="/slt/acts/16.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, hindered by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia,<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/acts/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And when they had passed through Phrygia, and the country of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia. <a href="/cpdv/acts/16.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Then, while crossing through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the Word in Asia. <a href="/nabre/acts/16.htm">New American Bible</a> They traveled through the Phrygian and Galatian territory because they had been prevented by the holy Spirit from preaching the message in the province of Asia. <a href="/nrsvce/acts/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/acts/16.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Then they traveled through the countries of Phryg’i-a and Ga-la’tia, and the Holy Spirit forbade them to speak the word of God in Asia Minor. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/acts/16.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> But they walked in the regions among Phrygia and Galatia, and The Spirit of Holiness forbade them to speak the word of God in Asia.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/acts/16.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> When they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia, <a href="/godbey/acts/16.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> And they traveled through Phrygia and the Galatian country, being prohibited by the Holy Ghost from speaking the word in Asia. <a href="/haweis/acts/16.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> So passing through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia, <a href="/mace/acts/16.htm">Mace New Testament</a> but after they had travers'd Phrygia and Galatia, they were order'd by the holy spirit not to preach the gospel in Asia: <a href="/wey/acts/16.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Then Paul and his companions passed through Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Message in the province of Asia. <a href="/worrell/acts/16.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> And they passed through the Phrygian and Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; <a href="/worsley/acts/16.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> And when they had passed through Phrygia and Galatia, being forbidden by the holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia, they came to Mysia, and endeavoured to go to Bithynia: <a href="/parallel/acts/16-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/in5WTRQ9BSQ?start=5223" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/acts/16.htm">Paul's Vision of the Macedonian</a> 5So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers. 6<a href="/greek/5259.htm" title="5259: hypo (Prep) -- A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when)."></a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tou (Art-GNS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">After the</a> <a href="/greek/40.htm" title="40: Hagiou (Adj-GNS) -- Set apart by (or for) God, holy, sacred. From hagos; sacred.">Holy</a> <a href="/greek/4151.htm" title="4151: Pneumatos (N-GNS) -- Wind, breath, spirit. ">Spirit</a> <a href="/greek/2967.htm" title="2967: kōlythentes (V-APP-NMP) -- To prevent, debar, hinder; with infin: from doing so and so. From the base of kolazo; to estop, i.e. Prevent.">had prevented them</a> <a href="/greek/2980.htm" title="2980: lalēsai (V-ANA) -- A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.">from speaking</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ton (Art-AMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/3056.htm" title="3056: logon (N-AMS) -- From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.">word</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tē (Art-DFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/773.htm" title="773: Asia (N-DFS) -- Asia, i.e. Asia Minor, or only its western shore.">the province of Asia,</a> <a href="/greek/1161.htm" title="1161: de (Conj) -- A primary particle; but, and, etc."></a> <a href="/greek/1330.htm" title="1330: Diēlthon (V-AIA-3P) -- To pass through, spread (as a report). From dia and erchomai; to traverse.">they traveled through</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēn (Art-AFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/5561.htm" title="5561: chōran (N-AFS) -- Feminine of a derivative of the base of chasma through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. A space of territory.">region</a> <a href="/greek/5435.htm" title="5435: Phrygian (N-AFS) -- Probably of foreign origin; Phrygia, a region of Asia Minor.">of Phrygia</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/1054.htm" title="1054: Galatikēn (Adj-AFS) -- Galatic, belonging to the province Galatia. From Galatia; Galatic or relating to Galatia.">Galatia.</a> 7And when they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit them.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/galatians/4-13.htm">Galatians 4:13</a> You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you. <a href="/romans/1-13.htm">Romans 1:13</a> I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. <a href="/1_thessalonians/2-18.htm">1 Thessalonians 2:18</a> For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us. <a href="/2_corinthians/2-12.htm">2 Corinthians 2:12-13</a> Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and a door stood open for me in the Lord, / I had no peace in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia. <a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Acts 18:23</a> After Paul had spent some time in Antioch, he traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. <a href="/acts/13-2.htm">Acts 13:2-4</a> While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” / And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off. / So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. <a href="/acts/19-21.htm">Acts 19:21</a> After these things had happened, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well.” <a href="/acts/20-22.htm">Acts 20:22-23</a> And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. / I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me. <a href="/acts/21-4.htm">Acts 21:4</a> We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. <a href="/acts/8-29.htm">Acts 8:29</a> The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.” <a href="/acts/10-19.htm">Acts 10:19-20</a> As Peter continued to reflect on the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you. / So get up! Go downstairs and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.” <a href="/acts/11-12.htm">Acts 11:12</a> The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home. <a href="/acts/13-9.htm">Acts 13:9</a> Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked directly at Elymas <a href="/acts/15-28.htm">Acts 15:28</a> It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements: <a href="/acts/21-11.htm">Acts 21:11</a> Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,Phrygia.<a href="/acts/2-10.htm">Acts 2:10</a> Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,<a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Acts 18:23</a> And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.region.<a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Acts 18:23</a> And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.<a href="/1_corinthians/16-1.htm">1 Corinthians 16:1</a> Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.<a href="/galatians/1-2.htm">Galatians 1:2</a> And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:forbidden.<a href="/acts/16-7.htm">Acts 16:7</a> After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.<a href="/acts/10-19.htm">Acts 10:19</a> While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.<a href="/acts/11-12.htm">Acts 11:12</a> And the spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:Asia.<a href="/acts/19-10.htm">Acts 19:10,26,27</a> And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks… <a href="/acts/20-4.htm">Acts 20:4,16</a> And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus… <a href="/2_corinthians/1-8.htm">2 Corinthians 1:8</a> For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/acts/6-9.htm">Asia</a> <a href="/acts/13-13.htm">Companions</a> <a href="/acts/14-6.htm">Country</a> <a href="/acts/10-28.htm">Forbidden</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-1.htm">Galatia</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/16-1.htm">Galatian</a> <a href="/acts/15-28.htm">Ghost</a> <a href="/acts/15-28.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/acts/15-38.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/acts/15-36.htm">Message</a> <a href="/acts/16-4.htm">Passed</a> <a href="/acts/16-3.htm">Paul</a> <a href="/acts/2-10.htm">Phrygia</a> <a href="/acts/15-21.htm">Preach</a> <a href="/acts/15-35.htm">Preaching</a> <a href="/acts/13-32.htm">Proclaim</a> <a href="/acts/2-9.htm">Province</a> <a href="/acts/14-6.htm">Region</a> <a href="/acts/14-9.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/acts/15-28.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/acts/15-23.htm">Throughout</a> <a href="/acts/16-4.htm">Traveled</a> <a href="/acts/15-36.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/acts/19-10.htm">Asia</a> <a href="/acts/18-19.htm">Companions</a> <a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Country</a> <a href="/revelation/9-4.htm">Forbidden</a> <a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Galatia</a> <a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Galatian</a> <a href="/acts/19-2.htm">Ghost</a> <a href="/acts/17-2.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/acts/16-17.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/acts/16-32.htm">Message</a> <a href="/acts/16-8.htm">Passed</a> <a href="/acts/16-9.htm">Paul</a> <a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Phrygia</a> <a href="/acts/16-10.htm">Preach</a> <a href="/acts/17-3.htm">Preaching</a> <a href="/acts/16-10.htm">Proclaim</a> <a href="/acts/19-10.htm">Province</a> <a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Region</a> <a href="/acts/17-32.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/acts/16-7.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/acts/17-6.htm">Throughout</a> <a href="/acts/17-1.htm">Traveled</a> <a href="/acts/16-32.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Acts 16</div>1. <a href="/acts/16-1.htm">Paul and Silas are Joined by Timothy,</a> 7. <a href="/acts/16-7.htm">and being called by the Spirit from one country to another,</a> 14. <a href="/acts/16-14.htm">convert Lydia,</a> 16. <a href="/acts/16-16.htm">and cast out a spirit of divination;</a> 19. <a href="/acts/16-19.htm">for which cause they are whipped and imprisoned.</a> 25. <a href="/acts/16-25.htm">The prison doors are opened.</a> 31. <a href="/acts/16-31.htm">The jailor is converted,</a> 35. <a href="/acts/16-35.htm">and they are delivered.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/acts/16.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/acts/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/acts/16.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia The Holy Spirit's guidance is a central theme in the book of Acts, demonstrating the divine direction in the spread of the Gospel. The province of Asia, a Roman administrative region in what is now western Turkey, included cities like Ephesus and Smyrna. The Spirit's prevention here indicates a strategic divine plan, as Paul would later return to Asia (<a href="/acts/19-10.htm">Acts 19:10</a>) and establish a strong church in Ephesus. This moment highlights the importance of divine timing and obedience to God's leading, as seen in other biblical narratives such as the Israelites' journey in the wilderness (<a href="/numbers/9-18.htm">Numbers 9:18-23</a>).they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia Phrygia and Galatia were regions in Asia Minor, with Galatia being a Roman province inhabited by Celtic tribes. This journey reflects the missionary strategy of reaching key urban centers and then spreading the Gospel outward. Paul's travels through these regions are significant as they later became the recipients of the Epistle to the Galatians, addressing issues of faith, law, and Christian freedom. The movement through these areas also underscores the fulfillment of the Great Commission (<a href="/matthew/28-19.htm">Matthew 28:19-20</a>), as the Gospel begins to penetrate deeper into the Gentile world.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/paul.htm">Paul</a> A key apostle and missionary in the early church, leading the mission to spread the Gospel to the Gentiles. 2. <a href="/topical/s/silas.htm">Silas</a> A leader in the early church and companion of Paul on his missionary journeys. 3. <a href="/topical/h/holy_spirit.htm">Holy Spirit</a> The third person of the Trinity, guiding and directing the apostles in their mission. 4. <a href="/topical/p/province_of_asia.htm">Province of Asia</a> A Roman province in what is now western Turkey, significant for its cities like Ephesus. 5. <a href="/topical/p/phrygia_and_galatia.htm">Phrygia and Galatia</a> Regions in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) where Paul and Silas traveled after being redirected by the Holy Spirit.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/d/divine_guidance.htm">Divine Guidance</a> The Holy Spirit actively guides believers, sometimes closing doors to redirect us to His perfect will. <a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_the_spirit.htm">Obedience to the Spirit</a> Being sensitive and obedient to the Holy Spirit's leading is crucial for effective ministry and personal growth. <a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_plan.htm">Trust in God's Plan</a> Trust that God's redirection is for a greater purpose, even when it is not immediately clear. <a href="/topical/f/flexibility_in_ministry.htm">Flexibility in Ministry</a> Be open to changes in plans and willing to adapt as the Holy Spirit leads. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_holy_spirit.htm">The Role of the Holy Spirit</a> Recognize the Holy Spirit's role in mission work and personal life, seeking His guidance in all decisions.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_acts_16.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Acts 16</a> <a href="/q/why_are_paul's_journeys_in_acts_inaccurate.htm">Why do descriptions of Paul’s missionary journeys in Acts contain geographical errors?</a> <a href="/q/why_did_the_spirit_block_preaching_in_asia.htm">In Acts 16:6–7, how could the Holy Spirit “forbid” preaching in Asia, and why would God restrict spreading the gospel?</a> <a href="/q/why_no_non-christian_accounts_of_paul.htm">Why is there no contemporary non-Christian account of Paul’s missionary journeys?</a> <a href="/q/what's_the_macedonian_call's_meaning.htm">What is the significance of the Macedonian Call?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/acts/16.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) When they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia.--In the previous journey St. Paul, when he was at Antioch in Pisidia, was just on the border of the two provinces, but had not travelled through them, Phrygia lying to the west, and Galatia to the north-east. The former name was used with an ethnological rather than a political significance, and did not, at this period, designate a Roman province. It does not possess any special points of interest in connection with St. Paul's work, except as including the churches of the valley of the Lycus, Colossae, Laodicea, and Thyatira, but the latter was the scene of some of his most important labours. The province, named after the Galatae, or Gauls, who had poured over Greece and Asia Minor in the third century B. 100, as they had done over Italy in the fourth, and to whom it had been assigned by Attalus I., King of Pergamus, had been conquered by the Romans under Manlius (the name appearing a second time in connection with a victory over the Gallic races) in B.C. 189; and under Augustus it had been constituted as a Roman province. The inhabitants spoke a Keltic dialect, like that which the people of the same race spoke in the fourth century after Christ, on the banks of the Moselle, and retained all the distinctive quickness of emotion and liability to sudden change which characterised the Keltic temperament. They had adopted the religion of the Phrygians, who had previously inhabited the region, and that religion consisted mainly in a wild orgiastic worship of the great Earth-goddess Cybele, in whose temples were found the Eunuch-priests, who thus consecrated themselves to her service. (See Note on <a href="/galatians/5-12.htm" title="I would they were even cut off which trouble you.">Galatians 5:12</a>.) The chief seat of this worship was at Pessinus. The incidental reference to this journey in <a href="/context/galatians/4-13.htm" title="You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first.">Galatians 4:13-15</a>, enables us to fill up St. Luke's outline. St. Paul seems to have been detained in Galatia by severe illness, probably by one of the attacks of acute pain in the nerves of the eye in which many writers have seen an explanation of the mysterious "thorn in the flesh" of <a href="/2_corinthians/12-7.htm" title="And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.">2Corinthians 12:7</a>, which led to his giving a longer time to his missionary work there than he had at first intended. In this illness the Galatians had shown themselves singularly devoted to him. They had received him "as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus." They had not shrunk from what would seem to have been repulsive in the malady from which he suffered; they would have "plucked out their own eyes," had it been possible, and given them to replace those which were to him the cause of so much suffering. Then they thought it their highest "blessedness" to have had such a one among them. If the memory of that reception made his sorrow all the more bitter when, in after years, they fell away from their first love, it must at the time have been among the most cheering seasons of the Apostle's life.Were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.--It is obviously implied in this that their own plans would have led them to turn their steps to the region from which they were thus turned. The pro-consular province of Asia, with its teeming cities, like Ephesus, Smyrna, and Sardis, its large Jewish population, its great centres of idolatrous worship, was naturally attractive to one who was seeking with all his energy a rapid expansion of the kingdom of his Lord. But in ways which we are not told, by inner promptings, or by visions of the night, or by the inspired utterances of those among their converts who had received the gift of prophecy, as afterwards in <a href="/acts/21-4.htm" title="And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.">Acts 21:4</a>, they were led on, step by step, towards the north-western coast, not seeing their way clearly as yet to the next stage of their labours. Their route through the "Galatian region" (the phrase, perhaps, indicates a wider range of country than the Roman province of that name) must have taken them through Pessinus, the great centre of the worship of Cybele, and Ancyra, famous for its goat's-hair manufactures, and for the great historical marble tablets which Augustus had erected there.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/acts/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 6. - And they went for now when they had gone, A.V. and T.R.; through the region of Phrygia and Galatia for throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, A.V. and T.R.; having been for and were, A.V.; speak for preach, A.V. The region of Phrygia and Galatia. But Phrygia is always a noun substantive, and cannot be here taken as an adjective belonging to χώρα: and we have in <a href="/acts/18-23.htm">Acts 18:23</a> exactly the same collation as that of the A.V. here, only in an inverted order: Τὴν Γαλατικὴν χώραν καὶ Φρυγίας. Even if the τὴν is properly omitted, as in the R.T., before Γαλατικὴν, the passage must equally be construed as in the A.V. The Galatians were Celts, the descendants of those Gauls who invaded Asia in the third century B.C. This passage seems to show conclusively that Derbe and Lystra and Iconium were not comprehended by St. Paul under Galatia, and were not the Churches to whom the Epistle to the Galatians was addressed; and forcibly suggest that the Galatian Churches were founded by St. Paul in the course of the visit here so briefly mentioned by St. Luke. Asia is here used in its restricted sense of that district on the western coast of Asia Minor, of which Ephesus was the capital. It is in this sense that it is used also in <a href="/acts/2-9.htm">Acts 2:9</a>; <a href="/acts/6-9.htm">Acts 6:9</a>; <a href="/acts/19-10.htm">Acts 19:10</a>, etc.; <a href="/revelation/1-11.htm">Revelation 1:11</a>. St. Paul apparently wished to go to Ephesus. But the time was not yet come. It was the purpose of the Holy Ghost that the Galatian Churches should be founded first, and then the Churches of Macedonia and Achaia. The apostles were sent, did not go anywhere of their own accord (comp. <a href="/matthew/10-5.htm">Matthew 10:5, 6</a>). <a href="/commentaries/acts/16-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>{After] the τοῦ (tou) Article - Genitive Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Holy Ἁγίου (Hagiou) Adjective - Genitive Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_40.htm">Strong's 40: </a> Set apart by (or for) God, holy, sacred. From hagos; sacred. Spirit Πνεύματος (Pneumatos) Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4151.htm">Strong's 4151: </a> Wind, breath, spirit. prevented them κωλυθέντες (kōlythentes) Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2967.htm">Strong's 2967: </a> To prevent, debar, hinder; with infin: from doing so and so. From the base of kolazo; to estop, i.e. Prevent. from speaking λαλῆσαι (lalēsai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active <a href="/greek/strongs_2980.htm">Strong's 2980: </a> A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words. the τὸν (ton) Article - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. word λόγον (logon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3056.htm">Strong's 3056: </a> From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression. in ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. [the province of] Asia, Ἀσίᾳ (Asia) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_773.htm">Strong's 773: </a> Asia, i.e. Asia Minor, or only its western shore. they traveled through Διῆλθον (Diēlthon) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1330.htm">Strong's 1330: </a> To pass through, spread (as a report). From dia and erchomai; to traverse. the τὴν (tēn) Article - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. region χώραν (chōran) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5561.htm">Strong's 5561: </a> Feminine of a derivative of the base of chasma through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. A space of territory. of Phrygia Φρυγίαν (Phrygian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5435.htm">Strong's 5435: </a> Probably of foreign origin; Phrygia, a region of Asia Minor. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. Galatia. Γαλατικὴν (Galatikēn) Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1054.htm">Strong's 1054: </a> Galatic, belonging to the province Galatia. 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