This great change is a most unaccountable thing, and might truly cause amazement; but ex quovis ligno fit Mercurius, cum digitus Dei sit statuarius. Nothing is too hard for that God in whose hand Saul's heart was.
Verse Acts 9:21. _IS NOT THIS HE THAT DESTROYED THEM_] οπορθησας. The verb πορθειν has three acceptations in the Greek writers: 1. _To_ _treat one as an enemy, to spoil him of his goods_. 2. _To lea...
WERE AMAZED - Amazed at his sudden and remarkable change. THAT DESTROYED - That opposed; laid waste; persecuted. Compare Galatians 1:13. FOR THAT INTENT - With that design, that he might destroy the...
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...
Paul remained with the disciples in Damascus for some time. And immediately he began to preach Jesus in the synagogues, and the burden of his preaching was, "This is the Son of God." Everyone who hear...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
WERE AMAZED. Greek. _existemi._ Compare Acts 2:7; Acts 8:9; Acts 8:13. DESTROYED. devastated. Greek. _portheo._ Same word as in Galatians 1:1;...
_But all that heard him were amazed_ Saul's fame as a persecutor of Christians was well known to the Jews of Damascus, and the authorities of the synagogues may have been instructed beforehand to welc...
SAUL’S SIGHT RESTORED. HE PREACHES IN DAMASCUS...
ἘΞΊΣΤΑΝΤΟ ΔῈ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ, _but all were amazed_. Saul’s fame as a persecutor of Christians was apparently well known to the Jews of Damascus, and the authorities of the synagogues may have been instructed...
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...
ΈΞΊΣΤΑΝΤΟ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΈΞΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G1839) поражаться, удивляться, ΟΎΧ не. Используется в вопросе, на который ожидается утвердительный ответ, ΠΟΡΘΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΟΡΘΈΩ (G4199) разруша...
AND CAME HITHER FOR THAT INTENT,— _And came hither on purpose to carry them prisoners to the chief priests._ See 1 Samuel 10:11. Heylin....
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
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 19...
But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief...
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...
THAT DESTROYED THEM WHICH CALLED ON THIS NAME. — Better, _made havock of them._ It is noticeable that St. Paul uses the same verb as descriptive of his own conduct in Galatians 1:13, where the English...
παρθήσας : same word used by St. Paul of himself in Galatians 1:13; Galatians 1:23; nowhere else in N.T., but see 4Ma 4:23; 4Ma 11:4; used often in classical Greek. Blass draws attention to the coinci...
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; o...
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 t...
PAUL'S SANCTIFICATION 20-25. (Galatians 1:15-22 and Romans 7.) Saul had long been a preacher of no ordinary ability. Hence he was a fluent orator when thus powerfully converted under the impetus of a...
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. (21) But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jeru...
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...
21._They were all amazed. _This is added, that we may know that the power of God was acknowledged. For seeing that the zeal of Paul against the gospel was openly known, they saw no other cause of such...
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...
BUT ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE AMAZED,.... Not the disciples that believed in Christ, but the unbelievers, as appears from their words: AND SAID, IS NOT THIS HE THAT DESTROYED THEM THAT CALLED ON THIS N...
But all that heard _him_ were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chie...
_And straightway_ That is, immediately after his conversion; _he preached Christ in the synagogues_ Some writers have given it as their opinion, (see Dr. Wells on the place, and _Script. Geog._, vol....
THIS NAME; the name of the Lord Jesus....
Saul preaches Christ:...
BUT ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE AMAZED AND SAID, IS NOT THIS HE THAT DESTROYED THEM WHICH CALLED ON THIS NAME IN JERUSALEM, AND CAME HITHER FOR THAT INTENT, THAT HE MIGHT BRING THEM BOUND UNTO THE CHIEF P...
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,...
THEN ALL WHO HEARD WERE AMAZED, AND SAID, " IS THIS NOT HE WHO DESTROYED THOSE WHO CALLED ON THIS NAME IN JERUSALEM, AND HAS COME HERE FOR THAT PURPOSE, SO THAT HE MIGHT BRING THEM BOUND TO THE CHIEF...
"And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that in Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name? and he had come hither for this intent, that he might bring them bound befo...
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...
Acts 9:21 Then G1161 all G3956 heard G191 (G5723) amazed G1839 (G5710) and G2532 said G3004 ...
SAUL'S MINISTRY IN DAMASCUS (9:20-25). With his usual enthusiasm Saul could not wait to get to grips with those who had once been his supporters, and it was not long before he was in the synagogues pr...
‘And all who heard him were amazed, and said, “Is not this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name, and who had come here for this purpose, that he might bring them bound befor...
Acts 9:21. BUT ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE AMAZED. The Jews were astonished; they knew the position he had held at Jerusalem; they knew the object of his visit to Damascus; and now they saw him using all...
WERE AMAZED (εξισταντο). Imperfect middle indicative of εξιστημ. They continued to stand out of themselves in astonishment at this violent reversal in Saul the persecutor.MADE HAVOCK (πορθησας). F...
Acts 9:19 Damascus Arabia Jerusalem. We see from this chapter: I. The minute care which God has over His people. He gives to Ananias the street and the house in the great city of Damascus where Paul...
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. _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...
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, 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...
AU WHO HEARD HIM WERE AMAZED. They knew who he was and what he had done in the past, but had not yet learned of his converting to Christ....
_And Ananias,…putting his hands on him said, brother Saul._ SAUL CONVERTED I. The ministry which helps to complete the great change. If the appearance of the Lord to the persecutor was miraculous, t...
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 9:20. AND STRAIGHTWAY HE PREACHED CHRIST.—Not after his return from Arabia (Plumptre), but after his conversion and during or at the end of the certain days. Paul’s preaching...
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 John 3:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:10; Acts 2:12; Acts 2:6; Acts 3:10;...
Destroyed [π ο ρ θ η σ α ς]. Rather, laid waste, made havoc of, as Rev. Compare ch. 8 3. Paul uses the same word in Galatians 1:13....
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...
SAUL SAVED TO SERVE Acts 9:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Following his baptism Saul received meat for his famished body, and was strengthened. Then Saul entered into a new comradeship with believers; a comr...