And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.

and as for the disciples, they were more and more filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

And the disciples were full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.

The disciples were likewise filled with gladness and with the Holy Spirit.

and went to Iconium, leaving the disciples full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.

The disciples were filled with joy This member may be expounded two manner of ways; That they were filled with joy and the Spirit, by hypallage, thus, With joy of the Spirit, or (which is all one) with spiritual joy; because there is no quietness, peace, or joy of conscience, but it cometh of the Spirit of God, in which respect Paul saith that the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Spirit, (Romans 14:17;) or that the word Spirit may contain under it other virtues and gifts. Yet this pleaseth me better, that they were filled with joy; because the grace of the Holy Spirit reigned in them, which alone doth so make us glad, truly and perfectly, that we are carried up above the whole world. For we must mark Luke's drift, that the faithful were so far from being troubled and shaken with those stumbling-blocks, how great soever they were, with the reproach of their teachers, with the disquieting of the city, with terrors and threatenings, also with fear and dangers hanging over their heads, that they did with the loftiness of their faith despise valiantly the gorgeousness, as well of their reigned holiness as of their power. And assuredly, if our faith shall be well grounded in God, and shall be thoroughly rooted in his word; and, finally, if' it shall be well fortified with the aid of the Spirit as it, ought, it; shall nourish peace and joy spiritual in our minds, though all the world be in an uproar.

And the disciples - The disciples in Antioch.
Were filled with joy - This happened even in the midst of persecution, and is one of the many evidences that the gospel is able to fill the soul with joy even in the severest trials.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost - Though in the world they had tribulation, yet in Christ they had peace; and, while engaged in their Master's work, they always had their Master's wages. The happiness of a genuine Christian lies far beyond the reach of earthly disturbances, and is not affected by the changes and chances to which mortal things are exposed. The martyrs were more happy in the flames than their persecutors could be on their beds of down.
St. Paul's sermon at Antioch has been thus analyzed.
1. His prologue, Acts 13:16, addressed to those who fear God.
2. His narrative of God's goodness to Israel:
1. In their deliverance from Egypt.
2. In their support in the wilderness.
3. In his giving them the land of Canaan.
4. In the judges and kings which he had given for their governors, Acts 13:7-22.
3. His proposition, that Jesus was the Christ, the Savior of the world, Acts 13:23.
4. The illustration of this proposition, proving its truth:
1. From Christ's stock and family, Acts 13:23.
2. From the testimony of his forerunner, Acts 13:24.
3. From the resurrection of Christ, Acts 13:30; which was corroborated with the testimony of many Galileans, Acts 13:31, and of the prophets, David, Acts 13:33, Acts 13:35, and Isaiah, Acts 13:34.
5. He anticipates objections, relative to the unjust condemnation, death and burial of Christ, Acts 13:27-29.
6. His epilogue, in which he excites his audience to embrace the Gospel on two considerations:
1. The benefits which they receive who embrace the Gospel, Acts 13:38, Acts 13:39.
2. The danger to which they were exposed who should despise and reject it, Acts 13:40, Acts 13:41.

And the disciples were filled with joy,.... Meaning either the "apostles", as the Ethiopic version renders it, Paul and Barnabas; who rejoiced, both at the success they had met with, and because they were counted worthy to suffer reproach and persecution for the sake of Christ and his Gospel: or rather the disciples at Antioch, and other parts of Pisidia, the new converts; who were filled with joy at the Gospel being preached unto them, and at the constancy and courage of the apostles in suffering for it:
and with the Holy Ghost; which, with the former, designs the same thing as spiritual joy, or joy in the Holy Ghost; or else the gifts and graces of the Spirit, which they had both for their own comfort, and the advantage of others.

the disciples--who, though not themselves expelled, had to endure sufferings for the Gospel, as we learn from Acts 14:22.
were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost--who not only raised them above shame and fear, as professed disciples of the Lord Jesus, but filled them with holy and elevated emotions.

The disciples were filled with joy. Those of Antioch. Even if Paul and Barnabas were driven away, they had left them a glorious inheritance.