Others agreeing with the King James Bible reading of JUPITER and MERCURY are the following: Wycliffe 1395 - “And thei clepiden Barnabas Jubiter, and Poul Mercurie, for he was ledere of the word.”, Tyndale 1525 - “And they called Barnabas Iupiter and Paul Mercurius because he was the preacher.”, Coverdale 1535, the Great Bible (Cranmer) of 1540 -"And they called Barnabas Iupiter, and Paul Mercurius", Matthew's Bible 1549, the Bishops’ Bible 1568, the Geneva Bible 1587, the Douay-Rheims bible 1582, The Beza N.T. 1599, the Bill Bible 1671, Mace New Testament 1729, Whiston's Primitive N.T. 1745, John Wesley’s translation 1755, the Worseley N.T. of 1770, Haweis N.T. 1795, the Newcomb N.T. 1796, The Thomson Bible 1808, The Revised Translation 1815, The Thomson N.T. 1816, the Wakefield N.T. 1820, The Kneeland N.T. 1823, Webster’s Bible 1833, the Living Oracles 1835, Longman Version 1841, the Hammond N.T. 1845, Hussey N.T. 1845, the Hewett N.T. 1850, The Commonly Received Version 1851, the Revised Version 1881, the Living Oracles 1835, the Morgan N.T. 1848, the Boothroyd Bible 1853, the Sawyer N.T. 1858, Kenrick N.T. 1862, The Revised N.T. 1862, The American Bible Union N.T. 1865, The Emphatic Diaglott Bible 1865, Anderson N.T. 1865, Noyes Translation 1869, The Alford N.T. 1870, the Smith Bible 1876, The Revised English Bible 1877, the Sharpe Bible 1883, Dillard N.T. 1885, Darby translation 1890, the ASV 1901, Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible 1902, the Godbey N.T. 1902, Worrell N.T. 1904, J.B. Phillips Translation 1962, the New Life Version 1969, the New English Bible 1970, The Living Bible 1971, the Worldwide English New Testament 1998, the Third Millennium Bible 1998, Updated Bible Version 2004, the New Simplified Bible, the Knox Bible 2012, the New Heart English Bible 2008, the English Jubilee Bible of 2010, The Hebrew Names Version 2014 - “They called Bar-Nabba "JUPITER," and Sha'ul "MERCURY," because he was the chief speaker. “
Other English Bibles that also read JUPITER and MERCURY like the King James Bible are The Word of Yah 1993, The 21st Century King James Version 1994, Revised Webster Bible 1995 (Larry Pierce), Worldwide English New Testament 1998 - " They named Barnabas, JUPITER. And they named Paul, MERCURY, because he was the one who talked.", God's First Truth 1999, The Sacred Scriptures Family of Yah 2001, The Worldwide English Bible 2000, The Tomson N.T. 2002, The Evidence Bible 2003, The Resurrection Life New Testament 2005 (Vince Garcia), The Context Group Version 2007, the Bond Slave Version 2009, The New European Version 2010, The Work of God's Children Illustrated Bible 2011, the World English Bible 2012.
Adam Clarke comments on Acts 14:12 - “They called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius - The heathens supposed that Jupiter and Mercury were the gods who most frequently assumed the human form; and Jupiter was accustomed to take Mercury with him on such expeditions. Jupiter was the supreme god of the heathens; and Mercury was by them considered the god of eloquence. And the ancient fable, from which I have quoted so largely above, represents Jupiter and Mercury coming to this very region, where they were entertained by Lycaon, from whom the Lycaonians derived their name. “
Barnes Notes on the New Testament tells us: “And they called Barnabas, Jupiter. Jupiter was represented as the most powerful of all the gods of the ancients. ... There is the most abundant proof that he was worshipped in the region of Lycaonia, and throughout Asia Minor. There was, besides, a fable among the inhabitants of Lycaonia that Jupiter and Mercury had once visited that place, and had been received by Philemon. The whole fable is related by Ovid, (Metam. 8, 611)
John Gill comments on Acts 14:12 - “And they called Barnabas Jupiter…The supreme God; it may be because that Barnabas was the oldest man, of the tallest stature, and largest bulk, and made the best figure; whereas Paul was younger, of a low stature, and mean appearance: and Paul Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker; Mercury was the god of eloquence, and the messenger of the gods, and the interpreter of their will F18; Paul being chiefly concerned in preaching and speaking to the people, they called him by the name of this God.”
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown comment: “they called Barnabas, Jupiter--the father of the gods, from his commanding mien and Paul, Mercurius--the god of eloquence and the messenger and attendant of Jupiter, in the heathen mythology.”
Matthew Henry comments: “And Paul they called Mercury, who was the messenger of the gods, that was sent on their errands; for Paul, though he had not the appearance that Barnabas had, was the chief speaker, and had a greater command of language, and perhaps appeared to have something mercurial in his temper and genius. Jupiter used to take Mercury along with him, they said, and, if he make a visit to their city, they will suppose he does so now. “
J. W. McGarvey's Original Commentary on Acts - “But when two gods appeared together, the one who acts as chief speaker could be no other than Mercury, the god of Eloquence, and the constant attendant of Jupiter in his terrestrial visits. The remark of Luke that Paul was called Mercury "because he was the chief speaker," shows that he was familiar with Greek mythology.”
The People’s New Testament - “"The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." In the speech of Lycaonia. Paul had preached in Greek, which was understood over all the East, but the native dialect of the Lycaonians was different, and in that they confer together. Called Barnabas, Jupiter. The chief of the gods in the Greek and Roman Pantheon. Barnabas was no doubt a more stately man than Paul, who says that his own "bodily presence was weak and speech contemptible," and there was also a reason why they thought Paul, Mercurius. Mercury was the "interpreter of the gods." His Greek name, Hermes, is the origin of our word Hermeneutics. Paul, eloquent, persuasive, active, was thought to represent the part of Mercury. Then the priest of Jupiter. There was a temple of Jupiter before the gates of the city, with the usual priest, and carried away by their idea, they prepared to offer sacrifices to the gods whom they supposed to have visited them.”
