What does Acts 9:19 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus."
ACTS 9:19 h`me,raj tina,j The reading of î45 h`me,raj i`kana,j (compare ith _dies plurimos_) is a scribal modification, introduced perhaps under the influence of the similar phrase in ver. Acts 9:23...
Verse Acts 9:19. _WHEN HE HAD RECEIVED MEAT, HE WAS STRENGTHENED_] His _mind_ must have been greatly worn down under his three days' conviction of sin, and the awful uncertainty he was in concerning h...
HAD RECEIVED MEAT - Food. The word “meat” has undergone a change since our translation was made. It then meant, as the original does, food of all kinds. WITH THE DISCIPLES - With Christians, compare...
CHAPTER 9 __ 1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1). 2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10). 3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is the Son...
PAUL'S CONVERSION. This belongs geographically to the field of the Hellenist mission, which was announced in Acts 8:4, and occupied that whole chapter. We heard of that mission at Samaria and Cæ sarea...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
MEAT. nourishment. Greek. _trophe._...
_and when he had received_[taken] _meat_, &c. Needed after his three days fast, but (says Calvin) "he refreshed not his body with meat until his soul had received strength." _Then was Saul certain day...
SAUL’S SIGHT RESTORED. HE PREACHES IN DAMASCUS...
SAUL'S EARLY MINISTRY ACTS 9:19-31 : After his conversion Saul began to build up what he had tried to destroy. Saul went to the Jewish meeting places and immediately started telling people that Jesus...
ΛΑΒΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) принимать, ΈΝ ΣΧΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΝΙΣΧΎΩ (G1765) принимать силу, ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 9:3....
THE CONVERSION AND EARLY LABORS OF SAUL Acts 9:1-30; Galatians 1:17-24 For a moment let us pause and look back over the pathway of the narrative, Luke has given the following events since the beginni...
See notes on verse 17...
And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. AND WHEN HE HAD RECEIVED MEAT, HE WAS STRENGTHENED - for the bodily exhaus...
10 God graciously gives a double witness to His dealing with Saul. Ananias is quite his opposite, being a devout disciple. Saul would have found it almost impossible to join the disciples as he did wi...
SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN 1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9 V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples. He said that he would kill them. He...
AND WHEN HE HAD RECEIVED MEAT. — Better, as elsewhere, _food._ The three days’ fast had obviously brought about a state of extreme prostration. In St. Paul’s account of his conversion in Galatians 1:1...
ἡμέρας τινάς : used here apparently, as in Acts 10:48; Acts 16:12; Acts 24:24, etc., of a short period; see note on Acts 9:23, and _cf._ critical notes, Blass in [228], and see Acts 9:23. [228] R(oma...
OPENED EYES Acts 9:10-22 How graciously God makes use of prepared souls as partners in the work of salvation! It would have been easy for the risen Lord to have Himself completed what He had begun;...
Opposition, the leader of which seems to have been Saul, continued. Armed with letters from the high priest, he attempted to put an end to the Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
The Persecutor Becomes a Preacher Once he was baptized and had broken his fast by partaking of some food, Saul began to be with the disciples. Saul immediately began preaching in Damascus, then went...
And there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. (11) And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the scene. We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repell...
AND WHEN HE HAD RECEIVED MEAT,.... Which was set before him when he had received his sight, and after he was baptized, of which he had not tasted for three days: HE WAS STRENGTHENED; in body, being b...
And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. Ver. 19. _With the disciples_] For as he desired to cleave perpetually to the...
_And Ananias went his way_ With all readiness and joy undertook the message, not presuming to object any further; _and entered into the house_ To which he had been so particularly directed; _and putti...
The baptism of Saul:...
Philip the evangelist is now put in the background, as the Spirit of God begins a work of another kind, using a most unexpected workman. Saul was filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
SO WHEN HE HAD RECEIVED FOOD, HE WAS STRENGTHENED. THEN SAUL SPENT SOME DAYS WITH THE DISCIPLES AT DAMASCUS. 1. The fast was over. Saul was ready to eat, gain his strength. 2. Saul stayed in Damascu...
"and he took food and was strengthened. And he was certain days with the disciples that were at Damascus" God understands the importance of both our physical and spiritual well-being (3 John 1:2). Thi...
10-22 A good work was begun in Saul, when he was brought to Christ's feet with those words, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And never did Christ leave any who were brought to that. Behold, the pr...
St. Paul could not but be much weakened with his journey, fear, grief, fasting, and constant praying; and now he takes a prudent care of his health, that he might be further enabled for the service of...
Acts 9:19 So G2532 received G2983 (G5631) food G5160 strengthened G1765 (G5656) Then G1161 Saul G4569 spent G1096 (G5633) some G5100 days G2250 with G3326 disciples G3101 at G1722 Damascus G1154 when...
SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
Acts 9:19. THEN WAS SAUL CERTAIN DAYS WITH THE DISCIPLES WHICH WERE AT DAMASCUS. The writer in this portion of his history of the ‘acts of Paul' is very brief. Paul, in his Galatian Epistle (Acts 1:16...
WAS STRENGTHENED (ενισχυθη). First aorist passive indicative of ενισχυω, to receive strength (ισχυς), comparatively late verb and here only in the N.T. save Luke 22:43 where it is doubtful. Poor ve...
Acts 9:1 The Conversion of St. Paul. That blessed war of aggression which Jesus Christ wages upon the evil one is a war which is made to maintain itself. Christ's soldiers are His captured enemies....
Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he fou...
CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised from the dead. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
Acts 9:1. _Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord._ Not less than two thousand of them, who fell in this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
SAUL STAYED FOR A FEW DAYS. Paul, as we better know him, received his knowledge and his message direct from God and did not need to be taught (Galatians 1:12). But try to picture his intense desire fo...
_And suddenly there shined round about him a light from heave._ THE HEAVENLY LIGHT As the supernatural reflects the moral in all the miracles of the Bible, so in the conversion of St. Paul. We have...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:1 In chs. Acts 6:1 Luke deals primarily with the witness of the Jerusalem church among the dispersed Greek-speaking Jews (the “Hellenists”) and with the apostle Peter. The conversi...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:10. That ANANIAS (see on Acts 9:1) was one of the Seventy is an unsupported conjecture; that he was a “devout” man Saul afterwards asserts (Acts 22:12); that he had previous...
EXPOSITION ACTS 9:1 _But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.; _threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
1 Samuel 10:10; 1 Samuel 30:12; Acts 26:20; Acts 27:33; Ecclesiastes 9:7; Galatians 1:17...
SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY 1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road is as vital a pa...