Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 17:4

4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas: and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

Were so affected towards them, as that they were willing to take the same part or lot with them. The word imports the nearest and intimatest friendship▪ and union; even such as is conjugal.

Such of that Nation as were become Proselytes, who had renounc'd the Idolatry and wicked conversation of the Heathen, amongst whom they lived; and had joyned themselves to the Iews; at least so far as to hear the Law and the Prophets read and expounded in their Synagogues; and did worship but one God, and did injury unto none. Of these we frequently read in this book; as ver. 17. and chap. 13.42, 43. and 16.14.

A considerable number of these believed; yet chap. 13.50. such had stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas.

Marginal references: Chap. 28.24.