Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Acts 9:28
Living amongst them, and freely conversing with them; that is, with Peter, and James, and the rest of the believers, who had now no suspicion of him.
Living amongst them, and freely conversing with them; that is, with Peter, and James, and the rest of the believers, who had now no suspicion of him.
Verse Acts 9:28. _HE WAS WITH THEM COMING IN AND GOING OUT_] Freely conversing and associating with them; but this seems to have continued only _fifteen days_. See Galatians 1:18....
AND HE WAS WITH THEM ... - That is, he was admitted to their friendship, and recognized as a Christian and an apostle. The time during which he then remained at Jerusalem was, however, only fifteen da...
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 AT JERUSALEM. This visit is understood to have taken place very shortly after Saul's conversion; the brethren there have not heard of his conversion, nor of his preaching in Damascus. Barnabas ha...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
When he arrived in Jerusalem he tried to make contact with the disciples. They were all afraid of him because they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the...
COMING IN AND GOING OUT. See note on Acts 1:21....
_And he was with them_, &c. i.e. for the fifteen days during which his visit lasted he was received into the fellowship of the Church....
SAUL VISITS JERUSALEM. HE IS SENT AWAY TO TARSUS. THE CHURCHES HAVE REST...
ΚΑῚ ἮΝ ΜΕΤ' ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν, _and he was with them_, i.e. for the fifteen days during which his visit lasted he was received into the fellowship of the Church. On ΕἸΣΠΟΡΕΥΌΜΕΝΟΣ ΚΑῚ ἘΚΠΟΡΕΥΌΜΕΝΟΣ see note on...
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...
ΕΊΣΠΟΡΕΥΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΕΊΣΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G1531) входить. "Входить и выходить" означает каждодневную жизнь (Barrett). Part, в перифр. обороте....
IN JERUSALEM. Acts 9:26-29. Galatians 1:17 b - Galatians 1:19. Acts 9:26 And when he was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himsel
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...
28, 29. Though the brethren, even at the solicitation of Barnabas, may have received him with some misgivings, the course he pursued soon won their confidence. (28) "_And he was with them coming in an...
And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. AND HE WAS WITH THEM COMING IN AND GOING OUT AT JERUSALEM - for 15 days' lodging with Peter, as we learn from himself in Galatians 1:18 ...
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...
COMING IN AND GOING OUT. — The words, like the kindred phrase in Acts 1:21, are used to imply a certain undefined frequency of intercourse. From Galatians 1:18 we learn that the whole duration of the...
ἦν … εἰσπ.: for characteristic construction see Acts 1:10, etc. εἰς καὶ ἐκπ., _cf._ Acts 1:21. Hebraistic formula to express the daily confidential intercourse with the Apostles; _cf._ 1 Samuel 18:13;...
WELCOMED AS A BROTHER Acts 9:23-31 He who feeds on Scripture must wax strong. The new convert started at once to testify of the Savior. We have no right to keep to ourselves the great treasures that...
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...
(7) And he was (l) with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. (7) The steadfast servants of God must look out for danger after danger: yet God watches out for them. (l) With Peter and James, fo...
PAUL'S APOSTOLICAL RECOGNITION 26-30. They had no mails nor telegraphs. News was slow and uncertain. His name had been the terror of Jerusalem. They fear a strategem, and all stand aloof until Barnaba...
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...
28.Luke saith afterwards that Paul _went in and out with the disciples, _which speech signifieth amongst the Hebrews familiarity, as the inhabitants of cities are said to go in and out at the gates of...
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 BE WAS WITH THEM,.... Peter and James, and the rest of the disciples; he lived with them, conversed with them, and joined with them in all religious exercises; which is signified by his COMING IN...
And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. Ver. 28. _And he was with them_] _sc._ With Peter and James, Galatians 1:18,19. For the other apostles were then absent, about their Lord's...
_And when Saul was come to Jerusalem_, &c. It must be observed here, that the history of Paul's preaching at Damascus, going into Arabia, and visiting Jerusalem, is somewhat intricate, and interpreter...
AND HE WAS WITH THEM, COMING IN AND GOING OUT AT JERUSALEM....
Saul at Jerusalem:...
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 HE WAS WITH THEM AT JERUSALEM, COMING IN AND GOING OUT. 1. Saul was accepted into the fellowship of the Jerusalem church. 2. He was with them. He was one of them. 3. He had "joined" the disciple...
"And he was with them going in and going out at Jerusalem" For 15 days he was with them (Galatians 1:18). "He moved about freely and fearlessly in and out of houses in the city" (Bruce p. 207)....
23-31 When we enter into the way of God, we must look for trials; but the Lord knows how to deliver the godly, and will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape. Though Saul's conversion was a...
28, 29. Though the brethren, even at the solicitation of Barnabas, may have received him with some misgivings, the course he pursued soon won their confidence. (28) "_ And he was with them coming in a...
Acts 9:28 So G2532 was G2258 (G5713) with G3326 them G846 at G1722 Jerusalem G2419 in G1531 ...
‘And he was with them going in and going out at Jerusalem.' So he walked in full fellowship with the church in Jerusalem, and went about with many of its members, being one with them in all that they...
GOING IN AND GOING OUT (εισπορευμενος κα εκπορευομενος). Barnabas and Peter and James opened all the doors for Saul and the fear of the disciples vanished....
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. _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...
AND WENT ALL OVER JERUSALEM. He certainly was not _timid!_...
_And when Saul was come to Jerusalem he essayed to Join himself to the disciples._ SAUL’S EMOTIONS ON RETURNING TO JERUSALEM He was returning to it from a spiritual as Ezra had from a bodily captivit...
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 9:27. BARNABAS (Acts 4:36) appears here as the patron of Saul, whom he takes by the hand (not literally, but metaphorically), and introduces to the apostles. Acts 9:28, should...
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 Kings 3:7; 2 Samuel 5:2; Acts 1:21; Galatians 1:18; John 10:9;...
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...