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Acts 22:15
For thou shalt be His witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
For thou shalt be His witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Verse Acts 22:15. _THOU SHALT BE HIS WITNESS UNTO ALL_] Thou shalt proclaim Christ crucified, both to _Jews_ and _Gentiles_....
FOR THOU SHALT BE HIS WITNESS ... - As an apostle - to testify to all people that the Messiah has come, that he has died, that he has risen, and that he is the Saviour of the world. OF WHAT THOU HAST...
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 t...
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...
THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
"Because I was not able to see because of the glory of that light, I came into Damascus led by the hand by those who were with me. And Ananias, a pious man as regards the Law, a man to whose character...
HIS WITNESS. a witness to Him. WITNESS. See Acts 1:8. MEN. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123. WHAT. the things which. SEEN. Greek. _horao._ App-133....
_For thou shalt be his witness_, &c. Thus the commission of the later-called Apostle was in the same terms as those in which Christ had spoken (Acts 1:8) to the eleven before his Ascension. _unto all...
ὍΤΙ ἜΣΗΙ ΜΆΡΤΥΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι, _for thou shalt be His witness_. Thus the commission of the later-called Apostle was exactly in the same terms in which Christ (Acts 1:8) had spoken to the Eleven before his A...
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...
ΈΣΗ _fut. ind. med. от_ ΕΊΜΊ, _см._ Acts 22:5. ΑΎΤΦ _dat. sing. от_ ΑΎΤΌΣ (G846). _Dat._ личного преимущества, свидетельства ("для Него"), ών _gen. pl._ rel. _pron. от_ ΟΣ (G3739). _Gen._ по аттракци...
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 l...
See notes on verse 3...
_ _ FOR THOU SHALT BE HIS WITNESS UNTO ALL MEN OF WHAT THOU HAST SEEN AND HEARD. For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard....
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...
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 these...
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...
THOU SHALT BE HIS WITNESS. — This mission, identical with that which had been assigned to the Twelve (Acts 1:8), virtually placed the persecutor on a level with them, and was equivalent to his appoint...
μάρτυς αὐτῷ : “a witness for him,” R.V., _cf._ Acts 1:8. πάντας ἀνθ.: we may see another evidence of the Apostle's tact in that he does not yet employ the word ἔθνη. ὧν ἑώρακας καὶ ἤκουσας, Blass well...
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 co...
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...
In Damascus, a devout, God-fearing man came to Paul, restored his sight and told him God had appointed him to know his will, see the righteous one and hear his voice. He further said God planned for h...
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...
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...
FOR THOU SHALT BE HIS WITNESS UNTO ALL MEN,.... Gentiles as well as Jews, an eye and an ear witness to them; OF WHAT THOU HAST SEEN AND HEARD; as that he saw him personally and alive, and so could wi...
For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. Ver. 15. _Of what thou hast seen_] _sc._ When rapped into the third heaven, 2 Corinthians 12:2, which might very well be i...
_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 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...
FOR YOU WILL BE HIS WITNESS TO ALL MEN OF WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN AND HEARD. 1. God has a plan for Paul. 2. He is to be a living testimony to the Jesus he was persecuting. 3. He is to go to "all men" me...
"For you will be. witness" Witnesses just like the original 12 apostles were appointed to be witnesses (Acts 1:8; Acts 1:22). "For Him to all men of what you have seen and heard" Thus Paul becomes not...
12-21 The apostle goes on to relate how he was confirmed in the change he had made. The Lord having chosen the sinner, that he should know his will, he is humbled, enlightened, and brought to the kno...
HIS WITNESS; the apostles were in a more special manner Christ's witnesses; as LUKE 24:48 1 THESSALONIANS 1:7 ACTS 1:8; God giving them extraordinary gifts, not for their own sakes chiefly, but to pro...
Acts 22:15 For G3754 be G2071 (G5704) His G846 witness G3144 to G4314 all G3956 men G444 what...
“For you shall be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.” And the reason for this was that he might be a witness for Him to all men of what he had seen and heard, that is of th...
Acts 22:15. THOU SHALT BE HIS WITNESS UNTO ALL MEN. In Luke's account of Acts 9:15, the ‘Gentiles' are especially mentioned by name in the colloquy between Ananias and the Lord, who spoke to him in a...
A WITNESS FOR HIM (μαρτυς αυτω). As in Acts 1:8.OF WHAT (ων). Attraction of the accusative relative α to the genitive case of the unexpressed antecedent τουτων.THOU HAST SEEN AND HEARD (εωρακας,...
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...
A MAN NAMED ANANIAS. He was a Christian (Acts 9:10), but kept the Law strictly. BROTHER SAUL, SEE AGAIN! See Acts 9:17-18 and notes. THE GOD OF OUR ANCESTORS. Compare Acts 7:32;...
_And one Ananias … said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee._ THE DIVINE ORDINATION OF HUMAN LIFE The verb here translated, “chosen,” only occurs in this form in one other place (Acts 26:16), w...
_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...
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...
Acts 1:22; Acts 1:8; Acts 10:39; Acts 23:11; Acts 26:16;...
All men. He keeps back the offensive word Gentiles (ch. 9 15)....