¹ sn Iconium. See the note in 13:51.

² sn Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) south of Iconium.

² sn Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) north of Lystra.

² sn Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) south of Iconium.

³ sn Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 90 mi (145 km) east southeast of Pisidian Antioch.

³ sn In Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. See Acts 13-14 for the account of these persecutions.

² sn Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) north of Lystra. Note how Jews from other cities were chasing Paul (2 Cor 11:4-6; Gal 2:4-5; Acts 9:16).

³ sn Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 18 mi (30 km) south of Iconium, a Roman colony that was not on the main roads of Lycaonia. Because of its relative isolation, its local character was able to be preserved.

² tn Grk “who was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.” Because of the awkwardness in English of having two relative clauses follow one another (“who was a believer…who was well spoken of”) and the awkwardness of the passive verb (“was well spoken of”), the relative pronoun at the beginning of 16:2 (“who”) has been translated as a pronoun (“him”) and the construction converted from passive to active at the same time a new sentence was started in the translation.