Acts 22:7
What meaning of the acts 22:7 in the Bible?
What does Acts 22:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me,Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"
What does Acts 22:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me,Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"
ACTS 22:7
Several Western witnesses expand the verse from parallel passages.
After fwnh/j codex Gigas and the margin of the Harclean Syriac add
“in the Hebrew language” (compare th|/ ~Ebrai
See the notes on Acts 9:3. Acts 22:6 AS I MADE MY JOURNEY - As I was on my journey. ABOUT NOON - Acts 26:13, “at mid-day.” This circumstance is omitted by Luke in his account in Acts 9: Paul mentio...
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Address of the Apostle (Acts 22:1)._ 2. The Answer from the Mob, and Paul's Appeal to His Roman citizenship (Acts 22:22). What a scene it was! On the stairs, midway between the...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. The opening of the speech is like that of Stephen (Acts 7:2). In 2 Corinthians 11:22 Paul attests his full membership of the Jewish people, and having lived many years in Pa...
"Men, brethren and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to you." When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they gave him still more quietness. So he said, "I am a...
GROUND. Greek. _edaphos_. Only here. HEARD. See note on Acts 9:4. SAUL, SAUL. See note on Acts 9:4....
_and heard a voice_ As in chap. Acts 9:4; Acts 9:7, so here, and below in Acts 22:9, the case of the noun is varied, so as to mark that the hearing in St Paul's case was different from the hearing of...
Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
_PAUL'S CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY ACTS 22:6-16:_ As Paul drew near to Damascus there was a bright light from heaven that flashed around him. This light caused him to fall to the ground. He heard a vo...
ΈΠΕΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΊΠΤΩ (G4098) падать, ΈΔΑΦΟΣ (G1475) _acc. sing._ земля, ΉΚΟΥΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, с _gen._ может означать: "слышать, но не понимать" с акцентом на ф...
c. Paul addresses the Jewish mob. Acts 22:1-21. Acts 22:1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you. Acts 22:2 And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew...
See notes on verse 3...
__ And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE....
40 God acts in marvelous ways. Human opposition works out his purposes quite as effectively as human help. What better means could be devised to get all Jerusalem as well as representatives from the d...
22:7 voice (b-10) See Note, ch. 9.4....
ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE 1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1) hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (3) the desecration of the Temple. He answers all thes...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 22 PAUL SPEAKS TO THE CROWD, 22:1-21 V1 ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! I will explain what happened.’ V2 The crowd became even quieter. T...
SAUL, SAUL... — We have again, as in Acts 9:4, the Hebrew form of the name....
ἔπεσον : on the form ἔπεσα W.H [366] see Kennedy, _Sources of N.T. Greek_, p. 159, Winer-Schmiedel, p. 111. ἔδαφος : only here in N.T. (in LXX, 1 Kings 6:15, Wis 11:5, etc., and in 4Ma 6:7, πίπτων εἰς...
HOW HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED Acts 22:1 What a sermon Paul preached! His pulpit, the steps that ascended from the Temple level to the Castle of Antonia. His audience, the frenzied crowds who filled the c...
Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the Gentiles. In that defense the last word he was permitted to utter w...
Paul now proceeds to vindicate himself by relating his experience, giving his Cilician nativity and his education in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel, the champion theologian, his identity with the p...
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
_THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL_ ‘Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?’ Acts 22:7 The inquiry upon which I ask you to enter is this. What drew Saul of Tarsus to Jesus Christ? And what bound St. Paul th...
He departs therefore to Jerusalem; and when there, he goes to the house of James, and all the elders assemble. Paul relates to them the work of God among the Gentiles. They turn to their Judaism, of w...
AND I FELL UNTO THE GROUND,.... And so did those that were with him, Acts 26:14. AND HEARD A VOICE, SAYING UNTO ME, SAUL, SAUL, WHY PERSECUTEST THOU ME? Acts 9:4....
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Ver. 7. _See Trapp on "_ Act 9:4 _"_...
_And as I made my journey, &c., about noon_ For all was done in the face of the sun; _suddenly there shone a great light_ By whatever method God reveals himself to us, we shall have everlasting cause...
The conversion of Paul. Chap Acts 9:3-18....
The vision on the way:...
The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts more serious attention. He has been practically convicted by...
AND I FELL TO THE GROUND AND HEARD A VOICE SAYING TO ME, ‘SAUL, SAUL, WHY ARE YOU PERSECUTING ME? ' 1. Paul hears a voice asking why this persecution? 2. The voice is taking this persecution in a pe...
Paul makes it very clear that his zeal for God and the law had become misdirected, and instead of arresting evildoers he was guilty of arresting God's people....
1-11 The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was whol...
SAUL, SAUL; as men that call another earnestly repeat his name; as when the angel of the Lord called _Abraham, Abraham, _ GENESIS 22:11....
Acts 22:7 And G5037 fell G4098 (G5627) to G1519 ground G1475 and G2532 heard G191 (G5656) voice G5456 saying G3004 (G5723) me G3427 Saul G4549 Saul G4549 why G5101 persecuting G1377 (G5719) Me G3165...
“And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'.” And the result was that he had fallen to the ground and had heard a voice saying, ‘Saul, Saul, why...
Acts 22:7. SAUL, SAUL. _Here,_ and again in Paul's own account before Agrippa and Bernice at Cæsarea, the language ‘Hebrew' is specially noticed (chap. Acts 26:14); and also in the narrative of chap....
I FELL (επεσα). Second aorist active indicative with -α rather than επεσον, the usual form of πιπτω.UNTO THE GROUND (εις το εδαφος). Old word, here alone in N.T. So the verb εδαφιζω, is in Luke 1...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith),_ Men...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before the multitude. Recounts his conversion. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, chief captain. CONCLUSION: God's servants who are set upon with rage and fury because o...
Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers;_ that is, men of mixed nations assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help. _Brethren,_ religious persons of the stock of Israel. _Fat...
AND COMING NEAR DAMASCUS. See notes on Acts 9:3-9. The bright light flashed at the time the sun was the brightest, and was much brighter than the sun (Acts 26:13). SAUL, SAUL. The voice spoke in Hebre...
_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence._ PAUL’S DEFENCE 1. Whether we consider the man, the circumstances, the speech, or the effect produced, this address is worthy to be ranked among the...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 22:6 begins the second part of the defence (Acts 22:6). WAS COME NIGH should be _was drawing near._ The narration is the same as in Acts 9:3 and Acts 26:13, with a few points...
EXPOSITION ACTS 22:1 _Brethren _for _men, brethren, _A.V. (Acts 7:2, note); the for my, A.V.; _now make _for _make now, _A.V. THE DEFENSE; ἀπολογία This is the technical word in classical Greek for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the twenty-second chapter of Acts. Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic moment. Paul in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit...
1 Samuel 3:10; 1 Timothy 1:13; Exodus 3:4; Genesis 16:8; Genesis 22:1; Genesis 22:11; Genesis 3:9; Isaiah 43:22; Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 2:9;...