Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. This musical and elevated strain-which carries the reader along with it, as it doubtless did the hearers-bespeaks the lofty region of thought and feeling to which the apostle had risen while rehearsing his Master's communications to him from heaven.
Verse Acts 26:19. _I WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT UNTO THE HEAVENLY VISION_] This, O Agrippa, was the cause of my conversion from my prejudices and mal-practices against the doctrine of Christ. The vision was...
WHEREUPON - Whence ὅθεν hothen. Since the proof of his being the Messiah, of his resurrection, and of his calling me to this work, was so clear and plain, I deemed it my duty to engage without delay...
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
PAUL SPEAKS BEFORE AGRIPPA. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even after t...
"Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. But first of all to those in Damascus, and to Jerusalem, and throughout the whole land of Judaea and to the Gentiles, I brought...
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
DISOBEDIENT. Gr _. apeithes._ Compare App-150. Occurs elsewhere Luke 1:17. Rom 1:30. 2 Timothy 1:16; 2 Timothy 1:16. Tit 8:3. "Not disobedient", which means emphatically "obedient", is the Figure of s...
_I was not disobedient_ The verb should be more fully translated "I did not become disobedient." The thought goes back to the "kicking against the pricks," the opposition of previous times. That was a...
Acts 26:1-23. PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA...
ΟΥ̓Κ ἙΓΕΝΌΜΗΝ�, _I was not disobedient_. More literally, ‘I did not become, or prove, disobedient.’ The thought goes back to the ‘kicking against the pricks,’ the opposition of previous times. That wa...
_PAUL'S PREACHING AMONG THE GENTILES ACTS 26:19-23:_ Paul was obedient to Jesus concerning his personal salvation and concerning the work the Lord had for him to do. He immediately began to preach at...
ΌΘΕΝ (G3606) следовательно. Это rel. _adv._ подводит итог всего, что сказал Павел (RWP). ΒΑΣΙΛΕΫ́ _voc. sing., см._ Acts 26:13. ΈΓΕΝΌΜΗΝ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 26:4. _Aor._ подводит итоги...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
19-21. By these facts the speaker proceeds to justify his change of position, and his subsequent career. (19) "_Whereupon, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;_ (20) _but announ...
1 King Agrippa was a notable figure throughout the closing period of Jewish national life. He was the last prince of the Herodian line. Unlike the Roman governors, who were frequently replaced and mos...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
I WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT. — Literally, _I did not become disobedient._ The language of the Apostle is significant in its bearing on the relations of God’s grace and man’s freedom. Even here, with the “ve...
ὅθεν : “wherefore,” R.V., so in Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 8:3;...
OBEDIENT TO HIS HEAVENLY VISION Acts 26:12 Nowhere else is there such deliverance from the glare and cross-lights of earth as is afforded by a vision of the face of Jesus, brighter than the sun at no...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Naturally, Paul could not disobey a voice from heaven, so he preached the gospel in Damascus and Jerusalem, both to the Jews and Gentiles. Notice, his preaching included the necessity of repentance, a...
(6) Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: (6) Paul alleges God to be author of the office of his apostleship, and that God's grace is a witness....
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
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 HEAVENLY VISION_ ‘Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.’ Acts 26:19 St. Paul was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, and so it grew and expanded before...
− 19.He declareth now briefly to what end he rehearsed the history of his conversion; to wit, that Agrippa and the rest might understand that he had God for his author of all those things which the Je...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
WHEREUPON, O KING AGRIPPA,.... Having been favoured with this illustrious appearance of the Lord and with this declaration and commission from him: I WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT UNTO THE HEAVENLY VISION; to...
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: Ver. 19. _I was not disobedient_] As I should have been if I had taken flesh and blood into counsel, Galatians 1:16; _See Tr...
_Whereupon_ Or, _from that time_, as οθεν may be rendered, that ever-memorable time, through the grace of God, giving me inclination and power to obey; _I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision_ W...
How Paul had carried out the work of his call:...
WHEREUPON, O KING AGRIPPA, I WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT UNTO THE HEAVENLY VISION;...
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
THEREFORE, KING AGRIPPA, I WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION. 20 but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should re...
"Wherefore,. king Agrippa,. was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision"I was no disobedient unto the heavenly vision" Paul could have disobeyed. Like Pharaoh, if Paul had been dishonest, if Paul had...
12-23 Paul was made a Christian by Divine power; by a revelation of Christ both to him and in him; when in the full career of his sin. He was made a minister by Divine authority: the same Jesus who a...
I was not incredulous, I believed God, and yielded to his call, as ISAIAH 1:5, which cannot be counted a fault in me; and yet this is all that can be charged upon me....
19-21. By these facts the speaker proceeds to justify his change of position, and his subsequent career. (19) "_ Whereupon, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;_ (20) _but annou...
Acts 26:19 Therefore G3606 King G935 Agrippa G67 was G1096 (G5633) not G3756 disobedient G545 heavenly G3770 vision...
“Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared both to those of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judaea, and also to the Genti...
_Paul's Defence of Christianity before King Agrippa, his Sister, and the Procurator Festus,_ 1-23. This famous _apologia_ of St. Paul consists of four divisions. The first, Acts 26:2-3, consists of a...
_Fourth and Concluding Division of the ‘Apologia' of PaulAfter the Appearance of the Crucified to him, he at once obeyed His Voice, and went about everywhere to proclaim His Message, not merely to Jew...
WHEREFORE (οθεν). This relatival adverb (cf. Acts 14:26; Acts 28:13) gathers up all that Paul has said.I WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT (ουκ εγενομην απειθης). Litotes again, "I did not become (second aorist...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Acts 26:19 The Heavenly Vision. I. Note, first, that the heavenly vision shines for us too. II. The vision of Christ, howsoever perceived, comes demanding obedience. III. This obedience is in our...
Acts 26:19 Conversion of St. Paul. I. The conversion of St. Paul meant that he became convinced of the mission of Jesus Christ. It convinced him of that only, as he says himself, because it pleased G...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
I DID NOT DISOBEY THE VISION. He could have disobeyed, as Judas did. But since he had already decided to serve God, this decision made him follow Jesus. FIRST IN DAMASCUS. He had probably been a "miss...
_Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision._ THE HEAVENLY VISION This is Paul’s account of the decisive moment on which all his own future, and a great deal of the fut...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:19.—Begins the third part of Paul’s defence, and furnishes the reason for his Gentile mission. WHEREUPON.—Lit., _whence_, wherefore, accordingly—_i.e._, having been so inst...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
Acts 26:2; Acts 26:26; Acts 26:27; Exodus 4:13; Exodus 4:14;...
From that time — Having received power to obey, I was not disobedient — I did obey, I used that power, Galatians 1:16. So that even this grace whereby St Paul was influenced was not irresistible....
Observe here, 1. How obedient the apostle was to the call of Christ: having had so glorious. vision, he did not, he durst not, rebel against the light of it: but immediately went forth and preached, f...