Three days. During the time, he neither eat nor drank, to testify his sorrow for his past conduct. He likewise spent the time in prayer, to prepare himself for the reception of grace. (St. John Chrysostom, hom. xix.)
Verse Acts 9:9. _NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK._] The anxiety of his mind and the anguish of his heart were so great that he had no appetite for food; and he continued in total darkness and without food f...
AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK - Probably because he was overwhelmed with a view of his sins, and was thus indisposed to eat. All the circumstances would contribute to this. His past life; his great si...
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)...
But Saul, still breathing out threat and murder to the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters of credit to Damascus, to the synagogues there, so that if he found any...
WITHOUT SLIGHT. not (Greek. _me)_ seeing (Greek. _blepo._ App-133.) NEITHER. not. Greek. _ou._ App-105....
_And he was three days without sight_ During this time we cannot but think the illumination of his mind was being perfected by the Spirit. He had been convinced by the vision that Jesus was risen from...
ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ΤΡΕΙ͂Σ, _three days_. During this time we cannot but think the illumination of his mind was being enlarged by the Spirit. He had been convinced by the vision that Jesus was risen from the dead...
Acts 9:1-9. SAUL’S MISSION TO DAMASCUS AND HIS CONVERSION...
_THE CONVERSION OF SAUL ACTS 9:1-18:_ Saul's early training helped him to be a very sincere man. However, as important as sincerity is we must remember that sincerity may be just as real in the heart...
ΒΛΈΠΩΝ _praes. act. part., см._ Acts 9:8. Part, в роли praed. _adj._ или в перифр. обороте, ΈΦΑΓΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΣΘΊΩ (G2068) есть, ΈΠΙΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΊΝΩ (G4095) пить....
AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT,— Scales grew over his eyes, not only to intimate to him the blindness of the state that he had been in, but to impress him also with the deeper sense of the almigh...
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...
IN DAMASCUS. Acts 9:8 b - Acts 9:22. Acts 9:8 b and they led him by the hand, and brought him to Damascus. Acts 9:9 And he was three days without sight, and di
See notes on verse 8...
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT, AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK - that is, according to the Hebrew mode of computation, he too...
26 It is notable that the messenger, or angel, who spoke to Philip is also called "the spirit" (29) and "the spirit of the Lord" (39). This suggests that these expressions may refer to created beings...
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...
Saul fasted to show his penitence....
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...
HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT. — It is natural to think of this period of seclusion from the visible world as one of spiritual communion with the invisible, and we can hardly be wrong in referring t...
ἦν … μὴ βλέπων : on ἦν with participle, characteristic, see above on chap. Acts 1:10. Wendt (in seventh edition, not in eighth), and so Felten, Alford, Hackett, distinguish between μή and οὐ with ἔφαγ...
WINNING A PERSECUTOR Acts 9:1-9 A year had passed since Acts 8:3. “The Way” had become the accepted phrase for the infant Church and its presentation of the truth, Acts 19:9; Acts 22:4. It may refer...
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...
Seeing the Light on the Damascus' Road Saul not only persecuted the church in Jerusalem, but even went to foreign cities to carry out his vicious persecution. Bruce presents some evidence that the Jew...
SAUL'S CONVERSION 1-15. As the Romans looked upon the Nazarenes as an insignificant faction of Judaism, in some way to them utterly mysterious, out of harmony with their own church, they acquiesced in...
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. I should not have thought it necessary to have paused over those verses, with any other remarks, than merely to have observed, that...
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...
9.Whereas he saith, that he neither ate nor drank for the space of three days, that is to be counted a part of the miracle. For although the men of the east country endure hunger better than we, yet w...
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 repelli...
AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT,.... Without bodily sight; for otherwise all this while his spiritual sight was increasing, and Christ was giving him by his Spirit a full view of himself, his stat...
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. Ver. 9. _And he was three days_] In this three days' darkness, some gather by computation of time, that he was now rapped up into t...
_And Saul arose from the earth_ When Christ bade him; but probably not without help, the vision having made him faint and weak, like Daniel; when, upon receiving a vision, _no strength remained in him...
THREE DAYS; this meant till the third day, or one whole day and a part of two others. Matthew 12:40; Matthew 16:21....
AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT, AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK. Luke here for the first time mentions the companions of Saul, and describes their behavior. The men that accompanied him stood stupe...
The end of the vision:...
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,...
AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT, AND NEITHER ATE NOR DRANK. 1. Can you imagine - suddenly being blind? Alone? 120 miles from home? 2. All Saul could do was think about the events - his life, the...
"And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink"Three days without sight" Evidently his companions had brought him to the place where arrangements had been made for him to stay. "D...
1-9 So ill informed was Saul, that he thought he ought to do all he could against the name of Christ, and that he did God service thereby; he seemed to breathe in this as in his element. Let us not d...
Some have thought that in these three days Paul had that rapture into the third heavens, which he speaks of, 2 CORINTHIANS 12:2; but that seems rather to have been afterwards; God would, however, by t...
Acts 9:9 And G2532 was G2258 (G5713) three G5140 days G2250 without G3361 sight G991 (G5723) and...
SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
‘And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink.' The condition of blindness lasted ‘three days'. In accordance with usual custom this could mean anything from one and a half days...
Acts 9:9. AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT, AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK. Augustine writes how Saul was blinded that his heart might be enlightened with an inner light. Then, when other things wer...
_The Conversion of the Pharisee Leader Saul,_ 3-9. After the Passion of the Lord, the conversion of St. Paul is the event to which attention is most frequently called in the sacred writings. Many time...
NOT SEEING (μη βλεπων). The usual negative μη of the participle. It was a crisis for Saul, this sudden blindness for three days (ημερας τρεις, accusative of extent of time). Later (Galatians 4:15) P...
Acts 9:1 Early History and Conversion of Paul. Viewed as a public event in the history of the Christian Church, the conversion of Paul furnishes new and independent testimony to the Divine origin of...
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. E...
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...
L, 2. _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 found...
Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,-_ Notice that little word «yet.» «Saul yet breathing out threatenings a...
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...
FOR THREE DAYS. Try to picture the panic and anguish of this devoutly religious man who suddenly discovered he had _been fighting against_ the very God he loved and served!!! Compare Acts 2:37 and not...
_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...
_And Saul arose, and … they led him by the hand._ HAND LED A wonderful change in the soul of which this was the symbol. I. The hand yielded. 1. Confession of futile character of past opposition. S...
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 9:1. AND should be _but_ directing attention once more to Saul. BREATHING OUT.—_Breathing in_ better renders the verb ἐμπνέων, threatening and slaughter describing the atmosphe...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Chronicles 33:13; 2 Chronicles 33:18; 2 Chronicles 33:19;...
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...
THE BENEFICENCE OF BLINDNESS Acts 9:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We now come to a most interesting study. In our last message we saw Saul, the persecutor, stricken down by a great light from Heaven. When he...
And he was three days — An important season! So long he seems to have been in the pangs of the new birth. Without sight — By scales growing over his eyes, to intimate to him the blindness of the state...